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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
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