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Nature of Reality Flashcards

1
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What was the time of ancient materialism, immaterialism, and pseudoscience called?

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Pre-socratics

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Proponents of materialism?

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Thales
Anaximenes
Heraclitus
Empedocles
Anaximander
Democritus

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3
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Everything was water

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Thales

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Everything is air

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Anaximenes

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Believed that everything was fire and change

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Heraclitus

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Believed that everything was made of the 4 elements (water, air, fire, and earth)

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Empedocles

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Believed that everything was made of Apeiron

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Anaximander

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Believed that everything was made up of atoms and empty space and everything else was just opinion

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Democritus

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Proponents of Immaterialism

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Pythagoras
Parmenides
Zeno
Heraclitus

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Believed that the world was made up of numbers

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Pythagoras

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Believed that we can only speak and think of things that exist

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Parmenides

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12
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World of forms is the world of ( )

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ideas

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Believed that there was no such thing as change and motion

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Parmenides and Zeno

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Believed that everything changes but change itself

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Heraclitus

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14
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The term Plato used for the world we experience

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Sensible world

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14
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The intelligible world can be understood conceptually but is not ( )

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perceptible

15
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Matter as ( )

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Less reality

16
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Form as ( )

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Ultimate reality

16
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Who proposed that becoming is being

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Aristotle

17
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According to Aristotle, both of these are reality

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matter and form

18
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Proponents of Idealism

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Berkeley
Kant
Schopenhauer
Hegel

19
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Theory that states that:
- there is an accessible and inaccessible world
- the world is rational (imposed by reason)

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Transcendental Idealism

20
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Proposed that to be is to be perceived

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Berkeley

20
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The theory that states that:
- to be is to be perceived
- there is no matter, only perceivers of ideas and ideas
- God as the ultimate perceiver
- Reality as perception

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Subjective Idealism

21
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Proposed that there was an accessible and inaccessible world

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Kant

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The terms Kant used for the accessible and inaccessible world

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Phenomenal (accessible) and Noumenal (Inaccessible)

23
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Proposed that reality is imposed by will and was irrational

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Schopenhauer

24
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Theory that states that reality is imposed by will and was irrational

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Irrationalism

25
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Proposed that the world is the mind and spirit and could only be known through the spirit of the times

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Hegel

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Theory that states that:
- the world is the mind and spirit
- the world can be known through the spirit of the times
- reality as something that progresses for the greater good

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Absolute Idealism

27
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Term for reality as progress

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Teleology

Philo 1 (3 decks)

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