Straighterline Philosophy Final 4 questions and answers

What did Anaxagoras do? correct answer: He introduced the mattermind distinction to philosophy. What did Anselm believe about proving God's existence? correct answer: You could do it using just the concept of God as the greatest being conceivable. What did Aquinas maintain concerning the human soul? correct answer: It is a direct creation of God. What did Aristotle say about all change? correct answer: It is a movement from potentiality to actuality. What did Benedict Spinoza think a person is? correct answer: A mode of God/Nature. What did George Berkeley mean about such things as tables and chairs when he denied the existence of matter? correct answer: There are no unperceived tables and chairs. What did Hypatia think about the study of mathematics and astronomy? correct answer: They were part of a way of life and a means of testing the implications of Platonic and Neoplatonic metaphysics and epistemology. What did Socrates hope to achieve by practicing the Socratic method? correct answer: He wanted to discover adequate definitions that would give knowledge of the essential nature of things. What did the Atomists do? correct answer: They distinguished between atomic properties and relational properties. What do Pyrrhonic skeptics maintain? correct answer: People should suspend judgment about all things. What do samurai warriors believe in?- correct answer: (Winning beforehand; Being a complete man, both scholar and warrior; Being self-reliant and prepared for anything.) What do we directly observe, according to David Hume? correct answer: Sense impressions What does Aristotle mean by the efficient cause of a thing? correct answer: Where it came from. What does Kant mean by the noumenal world? correct answer: The world as it really is, independently of our experiences of it. What does philosophical analysis attempt to do? correct answer: Reduce complex, philosophically puzzling propositions into simpler, less puzzling one