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WorksheetsMetaphysics I (Pre-Test)
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
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
