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Humanities Clep Test 100% Correctly Solved Greek Philosophers Before Socrates - Answer- Pre-Socrates Pythagoras - Answer- 6th Century B.C., a Greek philosopher and mathematician, founder of a religous movement called Pythagoreanism Thales - Answer- "Father of Western Philosophy". Greek philosopher who taught that the universe had originated from water. Parmenides - Answer- a pre-socratic Greek philosopher born in Italy. Denied the existence of time, plurality, and motion. NO Change. Fou...

What is the cause of change for Empedocles? correct answer: Love and strife. Three of Plato's more enlightening and well-known dialogs are: correct answer: Apology, Republic and Meno What is a syllogism? correct answer: A kind of inference What did Aristotle say about all change? correct answer: It is a movement from potentiality to actuality If you want to say what a thing is, which of Aristotle's four causes must you provide? correct answer: The formal cause. What fallacy...

Greek Philosophers Before Socrates - ANSWER Pre-Socrates Pythagoras - ANSWER 6th Century B.C., a Greek philosopher and mathematician, founder of a religious movement called Pythagoreanism Thales - ANSWER "Father of Western Philosophy". Greek philosopher who taught that the universe had originated from water. Parmenides - ANSWER a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher born in Italy. Denied the existence of time, plurality, and motion. NO Change. Founder of Metaphysics. Heraclitus - ANSWER ...

What is the cause of change for Empedocles? - Answer- Love and strife. Three of Plato's more enlightening and well-known dialogs are: - Answer- Apology, Republic and Meno What is a syllogism? - Answer- A kind of inference What did Aristotle say about all change? - Answer- It is a movement from potentiality to actuality If you want to say what a thing is, which of Aristotle's four causes must you provide? - Answer- The formal cause. What fallacy is it when an argument attacks the...

Atomists Atoms are infinite and in random motion. Beloved in principle of plentitude Principle of Plentitidue The universe contains all possible forms of existence. Anything is possible. Relates to quantum mechanics Murphy's Law Anything that can go wrong will go wrong occams razor the most simple explanation is the most likely explanation Copernican Principle the principle that the Earth is not the center of the universe and is the same from all directions. Principle of relativity The l...

What does Aristotle mean by the efficient cause of a thing? correct answer: Where it came from. Which is a theme common to all the pre-Socratics? correct answer: The experienced world is a manifestation of a more fundamental underlying reality. What did the Atomists do? correct answer: They distinguished between atomic properties and relational properties. How are the Forms apprehended, according to Plato? correct answer: By reason. What did Aristotle say about all change? correc...

Atomists Atoms are infinite and in random motion. Beloved in principle of plentitude Principle of Plentitidue The universe contains all possible forms of existence. Anything is possible. Relates to quantum mechanics Murphy's Law Anything that can go wrong will go wrong occams razor the most simple explanation is the most likely explanation Copernican Principle the principle that the Earth is not the center of the universe and is the same from all directions. ...

Atomists Atoms are infinite and in random motion. Beloved in principle of plentitude Principle of Plentitidue The universe contains all possible forms of existence. Anything is possible. Relates to quantum mechanics Murphy's Law Anything that can go wrong will go wrong occams razor the most simple explanation is the most likely explanation Copernican Principle the principle that the Earth is not the center of the universe and is the same from all directions. Principle of relati...

What is the cause of change for Empedocles? correct answers Love and strife. Three of Plato's more enlightening and well-known dialogs are: correct answers Apology, Republic and Meno What is a syllogism? correct answers A kind of inference What did Aristotle say about all change? correct answers It is a movement from potentiality to actuality If you want to say what a thing is, which of Aristotle's four causes must you provide? correct answers The formal cause. What fal...

Atomists CORRECT ANSWER Atoms are infinite and in random motion. Beloved in principle of plentitude Principle of Plentitidue CORRECT ANSWER The universe contains all possible forms of existence. Anything is possible. Relates to quantum mechanics Murphy's Law CORRECT ANSWER Anything that can go wrong will go wrong occams razor CORRECT ANSWER the most simple explanation is the most likely explanation Copernican Principle CORRECT ANSWER the principle that the Earth is not the center of...