Straighterline Philosophy exam 1 Questions With Complete Solutions

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