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Question 1

it is something from which everything begins with. it is also called the primordial stuff

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Arche

Question 2

the arche is air, something observable and can be felt

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Anaximenes

Question 3

the arche must be FIRE

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Heraclitus

Question 4

the arche is WATER

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Thales

Question 5

the arche must be something that is precise thus everything must be constituted by numbers

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Phythagoras

Question 6

the arche is not just fire, but the WAFE

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Empidocles

Question 7

everything must be constituted by tiny particles called atoms

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Democritus

Question 8

everything is created because of the municipality of elements

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Anaxagoras

Question 9

is also defined as the science that by natural light of reason studies the first causes or highest principles of all things

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Philosophy

Question 10

• it is an organized body of knowledge
• it is systematic
• it follows certain steps or employs certain procedure

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Science

Question 11

it uses a philosopher’s natural capacity to think or human reason or the so-called unaided reason

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Natural Light of Reason

Question 12

• it makes philosophy distinct from other sciences because it is no one dimension or partial
• a philosopher does not limit himself to a particular object of inquiry

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Study of All Things

Question 13

whatever is; whatever is not is not. Everything is its own being, and not being is not being

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Principle of Identity

Question 14

it is impossible for a thing to be and not to be at the same thing

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Principle of Non-Contradiction

Question 15

a thing is either is or is not; between being and not being there is no middle ground possible

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Principle of Excluded Middle

Question 16

nothing exists without sufficient reason for its being and existence

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Principle of Sufficient Reason

Question 17

it is an extension of a fundamental and necessary drive in every human being to know what is real

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Metaphysics

Question 18

• their theories are based on unobservable entities: mind and matter
• they explain the observable in terms of the unobservable

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Idealist and Materialist

Question 19

• nothing we experience in the physical world with our five senses is real
• reality is unchanging, eternal, immaterial, and can be detected only by the intellect

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Plato

Question 20

• it explores the nature of moral virtue and evaluates human actions
• it is a study of the nature of moral judgement
• it attempts to provide an account of our fundamental ethical ideas

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Ethics

Question 21

to be happy is to live a virtuous life

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Socrates

Question 22

it deals with nature, sources, limitations and validity of knowledge

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Epistemology

Question 23

• gives importance to particular things seen, heard, and touched
• forms general ideas through the examination of particular facts

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Induction

Question 24

is the view that knowledge can be attained only through sense experience

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Empiricism

Question 25

gives importance to general law from which particular facts are understood and judged

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Deduction

Question 26

advocates of deduction method

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Rationalist

Question 27

the meaning and truth of an idea are tested by its practical consequences

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Pragmatism

Question 28

• it does not provide us knowledge of the world directly and does not contribute directly to the content of our thoughts
• it is not interested in what we know regarding certain subjects but in the truth or the validity of our arguments regarding such objects

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Logic

Question 29

• first philosopher to devise a logical method
• truth means the agreement of knowledge with reality

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Aristotle

Question 30

it is the science of the beautiful in various manifestations- including the sublime, comic, tragic, pathetic, and ugly

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Aesthetics