Aristotle's Metaphysics

Aristotle's Metaphysics

Multiple Choice

True or False: Aristotle believed that forms exist around us in items themselves.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

True or False: Aristotle believed that the items around us actually exist in this realm, and are not dependent upon an immaterial realm of forms for their existence.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

What is an accident?

• Something that exists in and of itself.

• Something that can only exist in something else and not in itself.

• Something that is imaginary.

• Accidents are mistakes people make.

Multiple Choice

True or False: Substances can undergo changes without losing their essence.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Can the accidents of a substance change?

• Yes

• No

Multiple Choice

What is the form of something?

• The matter that makes it up.

• The definition of something's shape

• The essential characteristics of a thing that make up it's essential definition.

• None of these

Multiple Choice

Can substances be in act and potency at the same time?

• Yes

• No

Multiple Select

The wood that this chair is made out of...

(select all that apply)

• is a substance

• is the material of which the chair is made

• is an accident

• is merely a potential

Multiple Choice

Does pure matter exist?

• Only in theory

• Yes

• No

Multiple Choice

Does Aristotle believe in Plato's realm of forms?

• Yes

• No

Multiple Choice

What is hylemorphism?

• It is the idea that there is a separate realm of forms on which our sensible realm is metaphysically dependent.

• It is the idea that there is pure matter of which everything is made.

• It is the idea that every substance we see in our world is a composite of matter and form.

• It is the idea that forms only exist in our minds.

Multiple Choice

What is the principle of individuation?

• Matter

• Form