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Western philosophy traces its historical origin to ___________ in the 6th-century B.C.

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Ancient Greece, ancient Greece, ancient greece

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He was a 6th-century philosopher who taught water was the source of everything. He was also the first person to claim the Earth was spherical, and that it floated on water.

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Thales

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He was another 6th-century philosopher who taught that abstract numbers were the source of everything. These numbers formed patterns, which in turn constituted material things.

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Pythagoras

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Who taught that there is only being, and no becoming, concluding that change is an illusion because being and non-being exhaust everything in reality? Options: Heraclitus, Parmenides, Thales, Pythagoras

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Parmenides

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Who taught that fire was the source of everything and that everything was in a constant state of flux?

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Heraclitus

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A corollary of Parmenides’ philosophy is that there is only being, and all reality is one. Moreover, change is an illusion. This is called __________.

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static monism

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Heraclitus taught that everything was in a constant state of flux. Nothing is permanent. There is no stable being, there is only becoming. This is called _________________.

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dynamic monism, Dynamic monism

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They were traveling educators who charged fees for teaching young men grammar, rhetoric, and philosophy. What are they called?

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Sophists

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He was a former soldier who heard voices (divine oracles). He didn’t like the Sophists, and thought they would cause the collapse of Greece.

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Socrates

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Socrates used questions to expose a person's fundamental assumptions. This came to be known as the _____________.

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Socratic Method