Straighterline Philosophy Final| 280 QUESTIONS| WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS

What was the essence of reality for Heraclitus? correct answer: Change. What is reality according to a follower of Parmenides? correct answer: One and unchanging. What is the cause of change for Empedocles? correct answer: Love and strife. What did Anaxagoras do? correct answer: He introduced the mattermind distinction to philosophy. Which is a theme common to all the pre-Socratics? correct answer: The experienced world is a manifestation of a more fundamental underlying reality. Where do the Forms exist, according to Plato? correct answer: In a separate, immaterial realm. Which would Plato have agreed with? correct answer: The senses are a source of error, illusion, and ignorance. Plato had three famous theories: correct answer: The Theory of Knowledge, The Theory of Love and Becoming, The Theory of Forms. Three of Plato's more enlightening and well-known dialogs are: correct answer: Apology, Republic and Meno Aristotle's primary area of interest was: correct answer: Metaphysics. What did Aristotle say about all change? correct answer: It is a movement from potentiality to actuality. St. Augustine rejected this Neoplatonic claim. correct answer: The highest reality is the One, an impersonal, indefinable, and indescribable god. What do Pyrrhonic skeptics maintain? correct answer: People should suspend judgment about all things. 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 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 argument did St. Augustine use to refute total Academic skepticism?