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Philosophy: The Power of Ideas
Philosophy: The Power of Ideas, 5/e
Brooke Moore
Kenneth Bruder

The Pre-Socratics

True or False



1

Epistemology is the branch of philosophy that deals with questions about being and reality.
A)True
B)False
2

The Milesians all proposed material views of reality.
A)True
B)False
3

The term "metaphysics" comes from Pythagoras.
A)True
B)False
4

Anaximander refused to identify the basic stuff with any observable substance.
A)True
B)False
5

According to Aristotle, Pythagoras claimed that all things were made out of numbers.
A)True
B)False
6

Heraclitus thought that opposites, like hot and cold, were in some sense the same thing.
A)True
B)False
7

Zeno tried to refute Parmenidies' claim that being does not change.
A)True
B)False
8

Empedocles believed that there were as many different fundamental particles as there were individual observable substances.
A)True
B)False
9

That there is a little of everything in everything was a doctrine of Anaxagoras.
A)True
B)False
10

The atomists did not believe in chance or free will.
A)True
B)False