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INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY:
STRAIGHTERLINE.COM FINAL |ACTUAL EXAM
QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED ANSWERS
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 Anaxagoras do? - Correct-answer-He introduced the matter\mind
distinction to philosophy.
What is reality according to a follower of Parmenides? - Correct-answer-One and
unchanging
What does the branch of philosophy called epistemology study? - Correct-answer-
Knowledge
What does the branch of philosophy called metaphysics study? - Correct-answer-
Being
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According to Theano, what did Pythagoras claim? - Correct-answer-Everything is
in accordance with number.
What are Thales, Anaximenes and Anaximander collectively known as? - Correct-
answer-The Milesians
What is the cause of change for Empedocles? - Correct-answer-Love and strife.
What was the essence of reality for Heraclitus? - Correct-answer-Change
What do Pyrrhonic skeptics maintain? - Correct-answer-People should suspend
judgment about all things.
St. Augustine rejected this Neoplatonic claim. - Correct-answer-The highest
reality is the One, an impersonal, indefinable, and indescribable god.
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Which view of Aristotle's did Aquinas disagree with? - Correct-answer-The
essence of a thing is the same as its existence.
What is asserted by the principle of noncontradiction? - Correct-answer-A
proposition and its contradictory opposite can't both be true at the same time.
What did Aquinas maintain concerning the human soul? - Correct-answer-It is a
direct creation of God.
Which view did Aquinas accept?
A physical thing is matter plus form. - Correct-answer-A physical thing is matter
plus form.
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.
Which claim did Descartes use to establish the certainty of his own existence? -
Correct-answer-I think, therefore I am.
INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY:
STRAIGHTERLINE.COM FINAL |ACTUAL EXAM
QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED ANSWERS
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 Anaxagoras do? - Correct-answer-He introduced the matter\mind
distinction to philosophy.
What is reality according to a follower of Parmenides? - Correct-answer-One and
unchanging
What does the branch of philosophy called epistemology study? - Correct-answer-
Knowledge
What does the branch of philosophy called metaphysics study? - Correct-answer-
Being
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According to Theano, what did Pythagoras claim? - Correct-answer-Everything is
in accordance with number.
What are Thales, Anaximenes and Anaximander collectively known as? - Correct-
answer-The Milesians
What is the cause of change for Empedocles? - Correct-answer-Love and strife.
What was the essence of reality for Heraclitus? - Correct-answer-Change
What do Pyrrhonic skeptics maintain? - Correct-answer-People should suspend
judgment about all things.
St. Augustine rejected this Neoplatonic claim. - Correct-answer-The highest
reality is the One, an impersonal, indefinable, and indescribable god.
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Which view of Aristotle's did Aquinas disagree with? - Correct-answer-The
essence of a thing is the same as its existence.
What is asserted by the principle of noncontradiction? - Correct-answer-A
proposition and its contradictory opposite can't both be true at the same time.
What did Aquinas maintain concerning the human soul? - Correct-answer-It is a
direct creation of God.
Which view did Aquinas accept?
A physical thing is matter plus form. - Correct-answer-A physical thing is matter
plus form.
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.
Which claim did Descartes use to establish the certainty of his own existence? -
Correct-answer-I think, therefore I am.
