Philosophy Final- Straighterline Exam Questions And Correct Answers
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Philosophy Final- Straighterline Exam
Questions And Correct Answers
What is the cause of change for Empedocles? - answerLove and strife.
Three of Plato's more enlightening and well-known dialogs are: - answerApology, Republic
and Meno
What is a syllogism? - answerA kind of inference
What did ...
Philosophy Final- Straighterline Exam
Questions And Correct Answers
What is the cause of change for Empedocles? - answer✔✔Love and strife.
Three of Plato's more enlightening and well-known dialogs are: - answer✔✔Apology, Republic
and Meno
What is a syllogism? - answer✔✔A kind of inference
What did Aristotle say about all change? - answer✔✔It is a movement from potentiality to
actuality
If you want to say what a thing is, which of Aristotle's four causes must you provide? -
answer✔✔The formal cause.
What fallacy is it when an argument attacks the person rather than the person's beliefs? -
answer✔✔Argumentum ad Hominem
Where do the Forms exist, according to Plato? - answer✔✔In a separate, immaterial realm.
What did Anaxagoras do? - answer✔✔He introduced the matter\mind distinction to philosophy.
Plato had three famous theories: - answer✔✔The Theory of Knowledge, The Theory of Love
and Becoming, The Theory of Forms.
What did the Atomists do? - answer✔✔They distinguished between atomic properties and
relational properties.
What is a thing, according to Aristotle? - answer✔✔A specific form in a particular hunk of
matter.
What fallacy is it when an argument assumes only two options when in fact there are more? -
answer✔✔False dilemma
When the Delphi Oracle pronounced Socrates to be the wisest of people, Socrates thought the
pronouncement referred to the fact that he: - answer✔✔was aware of his own ignorance.
Which is a common characteristic of philosophical questions? - answer✔✔They involve
fundamental concepts that are unavoidable by the thoughtful person.
What is reality according to a follower of Parmenides? - answer✔✔One and unchanging.
What does the branch of philosophy called epistemology study? - answer✔✔Knowledge
According to Theano, what did Pythagoras claim? - answer✔✔Everything is in accordance with
number.
What are Thales, Anaximenes and Anaximander collectively known as? - answer✔✔The
Milesians
Which of the following is not one of the ten basic categories Aristotle used to describe the ways
in which humans think about things? - answer✔✔Weight
Aristotle's primary area of interest was - answer✔✔metaphysics.
Which of the following is a common myth about philosophy? - answer✔✔Philosophical
questions are simply semantic disputes in which no one opinion is any better or worse than
another is.
Which is the branch of philosophy that studies issues concerning art and beauty? -
answer✔✔Aesthetics
What must be the case for an argument to succeed with a rational person? - answer✔✔The
premises must be acceptable and they must logically support the conclusion.
How are the Forms apprehended, according to Plato? - answer✔✔By reason.
Aristotle's works include all of the following except: - answer✔✔Confessions
Which argument did St. Augustine use to refute total Academic skepticism? - answer✔✔When
we are in doubt we can at least know that we exist as a doubter.
Why can't we have cause and effect knowledge, according to Hume? - answer✔✔We can never
observe a necessary connection between events.
What is the self, according to Hume? - answer✔✔A sequence of perceptions.
What did John Locke believe about perception? - answer✔✔Knowledge of the external world is
based on the fact that some of the ideas we get through sense impressions represent the way
things actually are in the external world
What was clarity and distinctness a mark of, for Rene Descartes? - answer✔✔Truth
What do Pyrrhonic skeptics maintain? - answer✔✔People should suspend judgment about all
things.
Why doesn't Kant think that we can have knowledge of the things-in-themselves (das ding-an-
sich)? - answer✔✔Because the organizing principles of the mind do not apply to them.
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