Straighterline Philosophy exam 1 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

What does Aristotle mean by the efficient cause of a thing? CORRECT ANSWERS: Where it came from. Which is a theme common to all the pre-Socratics? CORRECT ANSWERS: The experienced world is a manifestation of a more fundamental underlying reality. What did the Atomists do? CORRECT ANSWERS: They distinguished between atomic properties and relational properties. How are the Forms apprehended, according to Plato? CORRECT ANSWERS: By reason. What did Aristotle say about all change? CORRECT ANSWERS: It is a movement from potentiality to actuality. Which of the following branches of philosophy does not involve questions related to values? CORRECT ANSWERS: Metaphysics. What is a thing, according to Aristotle? CORRECT ANSWERS: A specific form in a particular hunk of matter. What does the branch of philosophy called epistemology study? CORRECT ANSWERS: Knowledge. When the Delphi Oracle pronounced Socrates to be the wisest of people, Socrates thought the pronouncement referred to the fact that he: CORRECT ANSWERS: was aware of his own ignorance. What fallacy is it when an argument attacks the person rather than the person's beliefs? CORRECT ANSWERS: Argumentum ad Hominem What was the essence of reality for Heraclitus? CORRECT ANSWERS: Change What is the cause of change for Empedocles? CORRECT ANSWERS: Love and strife Who is a philosopher, in the original sense of the world? CORRECT ANSWERS: A lover and pursuer of wisdom, regardless of the subject matter. Which is a common characteristic of philosophical questions? CORRECT ANSWERS: They involve fundamental concepts that are unavoidable by the thoughtful person. Which of the following is not one of the ten basic categories Aristotle used to describe the ways in which humans think about things? CORRECT ANSWERS: weight