Metaphysics

Question 0

Thales

Answer 0

Water was one thing

Question 1

First to reject religious explanations for the unexplained

Answer 1

Pre-socratics

Question 2

Other pre-Socratics

Answer 2

Ionians, Italians, pluralists

Question 3

Ionians belief?

Answer 3

Must be a reasonable substance that is one essence

Question 4

Anaximander

Answer 4

Apeiron- an intermediate substance that’s infinite

Question 5

Anaximenes

Answer 5

Air is one thing

Question 6

Xenophanes

Answer 6

Water and earth

“Cheater”

Question 7

Heraclitus the obscure

Answer 7

Fire

Life reality is flux, change

Question 8

The Italians

Answer 8

Everything is essentially number

Question 9

Pythagoras

Answer 9

Regarded #s specially

1-point, 2-line, 3- surface

Question 10

Parmenides of elea

Answer 10

Opposite of Heraclitus
The way of Truth
The Way of opinion or seeming

Question 11

The way of truth

Answer 11

If there is any reality it must be one only

Question 12

The way of opinion or seeming

Answer 12

Changing world is an illusion of our senses

Question 13

The pluralists beliefs?

Answer 13

Reality is plurality of substances

Tried to solve the appearance of change with the lack of change

Question 14

Empedocles

Answer 14

Fire, water, air, and earth are roots of universe

Love brings things together, strife tears them apart

Question 15

Anaxagoras

Answer 15

Everything is made of a mixture of infinite number of infinitely divisible particles

Question 16

Leucippus and Democritus

Answer 16

First atomic theory

Infinite number of individual units

Question 17

The cosmos

Answer 17

“World”-Greek

Ordered and rational