PHIL101 Philosophy Straighterline
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1. What is the cause of change for Empedocles? - Correct Answer: Love
and strife.
2. Three of Plato's more enlightening and well-known dialogs are: -
Correct Answer: Apology, Republic and Meno
3. What is a syllogism? - Correct Answer: A kind of inference
4. What did Aristotle say about all change? - Correct Answer: It is a
movement from potentiality to actuality
5. If you want to say what a thing is, which of Aristotle's four causes must you
provide? - Correct Answer: The formal cause.
,6. What fallacy is it when an argument attacks the person rather than the
person's beliefs? - Correct Answer: Argumentum ad Hominem
7. Where do the Forms exist, according to Plato? - Correct Answer: In a
separate, immaterial realm.
8. What did Anaxagoras do? - Correct Answer: He introduced the
matter\mind distinction to philosophy.
9. Plato had three famous theories: - Correct Answer: The Theory of
Knowledge, The Theory of Love and Becoming, The Theory of Forms.
10.What did the Atomists do? - Correct Answer: They distinguished
between atomic properties and relational properties.
11.What is a thing, according to Aristotle? - Correct Answer: A specific form
in a particular hunk of matter.
12.What fallacy is it when an argument assumes only two options when in fact
there are more? - Correct Answer: False dilemma
13.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.
,14.Which is a common characteristic of philosophical questions? - Correct
Answer: They involve fundamental concepts that are unavoidable by the
thoughtful person.
15.What is reality according to a follower of Parmenides? - Correct Answer:
One and unchanging.
16.What does the branch of philosophy called epistemology study? -
Correct Answer: Knowledge
17.According to Theano, what did Pythagoras claim? - Correct Answer:
Everything is in accordance with number.
18.What are Thales, Anaximenes and Anaximander collectively known as? -
Correct Answer: The Milesians
19.Which of the following is not one of the ten basic categories Aristotle used
to describe the ways in which humans think about things? - Correct
Answer: Weight
20.Aristotle's primary area of interest was - Correct Answer: metaphysics.
21.Which of the following is a common myth about philosophy? - Correct
Answer: Philosophical questions are simply semantic disputes in which no
one opinion is any better or worse than another is.
, 22.Which is the branch of philosophy that studies issues concerning art and
beauty? - Correct Answer: Aesthetics
23.What must be the case for an argument to succeed with a rational person? -
Correct Answer: The premises must be acceptable and they must
logically support the conclusion.
24.How are the Forms apprehended, according to Plato? - Correct Answer:
By reason.
25.Aristotle's works include all of the following except: - Correct Answer:
Confessions
26.Which argument did St. Augustine use to refute total Academic skepticism?
- Correct Answer: When we are in doubt we can at least know that we
exist as a doubter.
27.Why can't we have cause and effect knowledge, according to Hume? -
Correct Answer: We can never observe a necessary connection between
events.
28.What is the self, according to Hume? - Correct Answer: A sequence of
perceptions.
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1. What is the cause of change for Empedocles? - Correct Answer: Love
and strife.
2. Three of Plato's more enlightening and well-known dialogs are: -
Correct Answer: Apology, Republic and Meno
3. What is a syllogism? - Correct Answer: A kind of inference
4. What did Aristotle say about all change? - Correct Answer: It is a
movement from potentiality to actuality
5. If you want to say what a thing is, which of Aristotle's four causes must you
provide? - Correct Answer: The formal cause.
,6. What fallacy is it when an argument attacks the person rather than the
person's beliefs? - Correct Answer: Argumentum ad Hominem
7. Where do the Forms exist, according to Plato? - Correct Answer: In a
separate, immaterial realm.
8. What did Anaxagoras do? - Correct Answer: He introduced the
matter\mind distinction to philosophy.
9. Plato had three famous theories: - Correct Answer: The Theory of
Knowledge, The Theory of Love and Becoming, The Theory of Forms.
10.What did the Atomists do? - Correct Answer: They distinguished
between atomic properties and relational properties.
11.What is a thing, according to Aristotle? - Correct Answer: A specific form
in a particular hunk of matter.
12.What fallacy is it when an argument assumes only two options when in fact
there are more? - Correct Answer: False dilemma
13.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.
,14.Which is a common characteristic of philosophical questions? - Correct
Answer: They involve fundamental concepts that are unavoidable by the
thoughtful person.
15.What is reality according to a follower of Parmenides? - Correct Answer:
One and unchanging.
16.What does the branch of philosophy called epistemology study? -
Correct Answer: Knowledge
17.According to Theano, what did Pythagoras claim? - Correct Answer:
Everything is in accordance with number.
18.What are Thales, Anaximenes and Anaximander collectively known as? -
Correct Answer: The Milesians
19.Which of the following is not one of the ten basic categories Aristotle used
to describe the ways in which humans think about things? - Correct
Answer: Weight
20.Aristotle's primary area of interest was - Correct Answer: metaphysics.
21.Which of the following is a common myth about philosophy? - Correct
Answer: Philosophical questions are simply semantic disputes in which no
one opinion is any better or worse than another is.
, 22.Which is the branch of philosophy that studies issues concerning art and
beauty? - Correct Answer: Aesthetics
23.What must be the case for an argument to succeed with a rational person? -
Correct Answer: The premises must be acceptable and they must
logically support the conclusion.
24.How are the Forms apprehended, according to Plato? - Correct Answer:
By reason.
25.Aristotle's works include all of the following except: - Correct Answer:
Confessions
26.Which argument did St. Augustine use to refute total Academic skepticism?
- Correct Answer: When we are in doubt we can at least know that we
exist as a doubter.
27.Why can't we have cause and effect knowledge, according to Hume? -
Correct Answer: We can never observe a necessary connection between
events.
28.What is the self, according to Hume? - Correct Answer: A sequence of
perceptions.
