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chapter 3 Pre-Socratics (natural Philosophers) Flashcards

1
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Who are presocratics

A

6th and 5th century BCE greek thinkers who inquiring into the world and place of human beings in it

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2
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Who was considered the father of western philosophy?

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Thales

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3
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Who believed that all is water?

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Thales

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First to define general principles?

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Thales

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What is Anaximander’s philosophy?

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The unlimited

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What did Anaximander’s argue?

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Neither of the elements can embrace all of the opposites found in nature

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7
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What is apeiron

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The infinite

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8
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The only substance that can explain all the opposites is…

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The infinite

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9
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Who believed that all is the infinite?

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Anaximander

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10
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Who is the father of cosmology and astronomy

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Anaximander

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What is logos

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Reasoned account

Claims that are supported by good use of logic or evidence

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Who first considered the sun as a huge mass?

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Anaximander

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13
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What is aneximenes philosophy?

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All is air

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14
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What is rarefraction?

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The reduction of an item’s density.

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15
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Which presocratic believed that the world is flat and rides on a cushion of air

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Aneximenes

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16
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Who is the father of numbers?

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Pythagoras

17
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What is Pythagoras best known for

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The Pythagorean theorem

18
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Who believed that all is number?

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Pythagoras

19
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What is Hesiod’s philosophy?

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All comes from nothing

20
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Who states that, All impact or consequent does not matter?

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Hesiod

21
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Hesiod states…

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There are no gods as a source of being
All experience has no meaning 
There is no purpose or end goal
All perspective are subjective, no objectivity
No absolute moral right or wrong
No self value only self assigned value
22
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What is the theology based view

A

Gods control the world and events

23
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What are the four elements

Think of Avatar the Last Airbender

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Fire
Water
Air
Earth

24
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Who states that quantity determines quality

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Anaxemenes

25
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What is Paremenides philosophy?

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All is one

26
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What is plenum?

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All is already determined

27
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Who states that change is an illusion

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Paremenides

28
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What is Heraclitus philosophy?

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All is multiple

29
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Heraclitus states that stability is a…

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An illusion

30
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All natural philosophers are missing….

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Logic “logos”

31
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Empedocles believed in

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Love and strife, a balance with things

32
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Empedicles is a

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Pluralist

33
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A-toms

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Unbreakables

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