Straighterline Philosophy Exam 1 Questions And Correct Answers
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Straighterline Philosophy Exam 1 Questions
And Correct Answers
What does Aristotle mean by the efficient cause of a thing? - answerWhere it came from.
Which is a theme common to all the pre-Socratics? - answerThe experienced world is a
manifestation of a more fundamental underlying reality.
Wh...
Straighterline Philosophy Exam 1 Questions
And Correct Answers
What does Aristotle mean by the efficient cause of a thing? - answer✔✔Where it came from.
Which is a theme common to all the pre-Socratics? - answer✔✔The experienced world is a
manifestation of a more fundamental underlying reality.
What did the Atomists do? - answer✔✔They distinguished between atomic properties and
relational properties.
How are the Forms apprehended, according to Plato? - answer✔✔By reason.
What did Aristotle say about all change? - answer✔✔It is a movement from potentiality to
actuality.
Which of the following branches of philosophy does not involve questions related to values? -
answer✔✔Metaphysics.
What is a thing, according to Aristotle? - answer✔✔A specific form in a particular hunk of
matter.
What does the branch of philosophy called epistemology study? - answer✔✔Knowledge.
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.
What fallacy is it when an argument attacks the person rather than the person's beliefs? -
answer✔✔Argumentum ad Hominem
What was the essence of reality for Heraclitus? - answer✔✔Change
What is the cause of change for Empedocles? - answer✔✔Love and strife
Who is a philosopher, in the original sense of the world? - answer✔✔A lover and pursuer of
wisdom, regardless of the subject matter.
Which is a common characteristic of philosophical questions? - answer✔✔They involve
fundamental concepts that are unavoidable by the thoughtful person.
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