ISYE 6501 FINAL QUIZZES V1, V2 AND V3
COMPREHENSIVE STUDY GUIDE 2026 FULL
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
◍ reason.
Answer: (philosophical term) in philosophy, the faculty or process of
drawing logical inferences. ... Reason is in opposition to sensation,
perception, feeling, desire, as the faculty (the existence of which is denied
by empiricists) by which fundamental truths are intuitively apprehended.
◍ Protagerous.
Answer: (bonus) the individual given credit for identifying the role of the
sophists in ancient Athens. So he is somewhat the father of sophism. The
word protagonist comes from this. In every story there is a protagonist that
carries the story along; in every plot the protagonist must have an
antagonist. Protagerous's antagonist was his teacher, Socrates.
◍ Idealism.
Answer: the practice of forming or pursuing ideals, especially
unrealistically.
◍ Scholasticism.
Answer: A philosophical and theological system, associated with Thomas
Aquinas, devised to reconcile Aristotelian philosophy and Roman Catholic
theology in the thirteenth century.
◍ ontology.
Answer: (philosophical term) the branch of philosophy that studies concepts
such as existence, being, becoming, and reality. It includes the questions of
how entities are grouped into basic categories and which of these entities
exist on the most fundamental level.
, ◍ Neoplatonism.
Answer: Views based on the ideas of Plato that one should search beyond
appearances for true knowledge
◍ Averroes.
Answer: Spanish-Arabian philosopher and doctor, wrote commentaries on
Aristotle, emphasized the compatability of faith and reason, said
philosophical knowledge was derived from reason
◍ deism.
Answer: (philosophical term) belief in the existence of a supreme being,
specifically of a creator who does not intervene in the universe. The term is
used chiefly of an intellectual movement of the 17th and 18th centuries that
accepted the existence of a creator on the basis of reason but rejected belief
in a supernatural deity who interacts with humankind.
◍ Dialogue.
Answer: Conversation between two or more characters
◍ Thomistic.
Answer: a scientific/logical approach to matters of divinity and theology
◍ dichotomy.
Answer: Two opposite parts of one whole
◍ Thomistic dichotomy.
Answer: the philosophical school that arose as a legacy of the work and
thought of Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274), philosopher, theologian, and
Doctor of the Church. In philosophy, Aquinas' disputed questions and
commentaries on Aristotle are perhaps his best-known works.
◍ First Cause.
Answer: Argument for God's existence from human reason based on the
observable truth that there must be a creator who is not himself created
◍ Stoics.
Answer: Greco-Roman philosophers who urged people to understand the
COMPREHENSIVE STUDY GUIDE 2026 FULL
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
◍ reason.
Answer: (philosophical term) in philosophy, the faculty or process of
drawing logical inferences. ... Reason is in opposition to sensation,
perception, feeling, desire, as the faculty (the existence of which is denied
by empiricists) by which fundamental truths are intuitively apprehended.
◍ Protagerous.
Answer: (bonus) the individual given credit for identifying the role of the
sophists in ancient Athens. So he is somewhat the father of sophism. The
word protagonist comes from this. In every story there is a protagonist that
carries the story along; in every plot the protagonist must have an
antagonist. Protagerous's antagonist was his teacher, Socrates.
◍ Idealism.
Answer: the practice of forming or pursuing ideals, especially
unrealistically.
◍ Scholasticism.
Answer: A philosophical and theological system, associated with Thomas
Aquinas, devised to reconcile Aristotelian philosophy and Roman Catholic
theology in the thirteenth century.
◍ ontology.
Answer: (philosophical term) the branch of philosophy that studies concepts
such as existence, being, becoming, and reality. It includes the questions of
how entities are grouped into basic categories and which of these entities
exist on the most fundamental level.
, ◍ Neoplatonism.
Answer: Views based on the ideas of Plato that one should search beyond
appearances for true knowledge
◍ Averroes.
Answer: Spanish-Arabian philosopher and doctor, wrote commentaries on
Aristotle, emphasized the compatability of faith and reason, said
philosophical knowledge was derived from reason
◍ deism.
Answer: (philosophical term) belief in the existence of a supreme being,
specifically of a creator who does not intervene in the universe. The term is
used chiefly of an intellectual movement of the 17th and 18th centuries that
accepted the existence of a creator on the basis of reason but rejected belief
in a supernatural deity who interacts with humankind.
◍ Dialogue.
Answer: Conversation between two or more characters
◍ Thomistic.
Answer: a scientific/logical approach to matters of divinity and theology
◍ dichotomy.
Answer: Two opposite parts of one whole
◍ Thomistic dichotomy.
Answer: the philosophical school that arose as a legacy of the work and
thought of Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274), philosopher, theologian, and
Doctor of the Church. In philosophy, Aquinas' disputed questions and
commentaries on Aristotle are perhaps his best-known works.
◍ First Cause.
Answer: Argument for God's existence from human reason based on the
observable truth that there must be a creator who is not himself created
◍ Stoics.
Answer: Greco-Roman philosophers who urged people to understand the
