Metaphysics I (Pre-Test)

This is a loose chronological term applied to the Greek Philosophers who lived before Socrates

• Post-Socratics

• Pre-Socratics

• Platonists

• Ante-Socratics

Who among the following is not a Pre-Socratic philosopher?

• St. Augustine

• Anaxagoras

• Empedocles

• Heraclitus

He believed that water is the fundamental component of the universe.

• Pythagoras

• Anaximemes

• Leucippus

• Thales

He proposed that things are numbers, and we can try to understand what these might mean.

• Socrates

• Plato

• Pythagoras

• Aristotle

He is famous for the quote "you cannot step in the same river twice."

• Aristotle

• Heraclitus

• Meno

• Theano

He devised a series of ingenious arguments to Parmenides's claim that reality is One by debunking the idea that motion is possible.

• Aristotle

• Pythagoras

• Socrates

• Meno

They held that all things are composed of physical atoms—tiny, imperceptible, indestructible, indivisible, eternal, and uncreated particles composed of exactly the same matter but different in size, shape, and weight.

• Aristotle and Plato

• Leucippus and Democritus

• Anaxagoras and Empedocles

• Socrates and Thales

The method of discovery he followed bears his name, the Socratic method. What is the other name of this method?

• Dialectical Method

• Pedagogical Method

• Regional Method

• Inquisition Method

According to Plato, what is truly real is not the objects we encounter in sensory experience but, rather, ___________, and these can only be grasped intellectually.

• Patterns

• Archetypes

• Meanings

• Forms

Who among the following philosophers believed that love is meant to be the force that brings all things together and makes them beautiful?

• Plato

• Anaximander

• Leucippus

• Socrates