MidTerm Fall 2017

Question 1

Equivocity

Answer 1

same word, different meaning

Question 2

univocity

Answer 2

same word, same meaning

Question 3

analogy

Answer 3

same word, same meaning, differing degree

Question 4

indivisibility

Answer 4

something that once divided, ceases to be

Question 5

prime matter

Answer 5

formless, shapeless matter - pure potential

Question 6

essentialism

Answer 6

the being is something the essence participates in

Question 7

nominalism

Answer 7

universals/classes are simply names

Question 8

quiddity

Answer 8

the “whatness” of something

Question 9

empiricism

Answer 9

all knowledge is from the senses

Question 10

matter

Answer 10

takes up space and differentiates things

Question 11

form

Answer 11

living: soul and its different powers

non-living: shape

Question 12

essence

Answer 12

what is it

Question 13

existence

Answer 13

the act of being

Question 14

act

Answer 14

realization of potential

Question 15

potency

Answer 15

what could be

Question 16

what is process philosophy?

Answer 16

“all is in flux” modern view “everything is in change”

Question 17

what is substance?

Answer 17

primary matter

Question 18

what is accident?

Answer 18

9 predicaments found within a substance

Question 19

what is substrate?

Answer 19

that which lies beneath

Question 20

what is change?

Answer 20

potency => act

Question 21

what is materialism?

Answer 21

what is real is substance

Question 22

what is Hylomorphism?

Answer 22

concept of body-soul composite

Question 23

what is personhood?

Answer 23

you are an individual substance of a rational nature

Question 24

what is soul?

Answer 24

living form and its different powers

Question 25

what is individuation?

Answer 25

matter is what individuates, separates us from each other

Question 26

what is death?

Answer 26

separation of body and soul

Question 27

What is the metaphysical view of Heraclitus?

Answer 27

All is flux

Question 28

What is the metaphysical view of Parmenides?

Answer 28

Change is an illusion

Question 29

what is the metaphysical view of Plato?

Answer 29

world of the forms

Question 30

what is the metaphysical view of Aristotle?

Answer 30

forms are in the being itself

Question 31

what is the metaphysical view of Aquinas?

Answer 31

we participate in the form

Question 32

what is the metaphysical view of Duns Scotus?

Answer 32

God is the highest being because he is not limited

Question 33

what is the metaphysical view of Okham?

Answer 33

Abstractions are just names, they are not real (humanity isn't a thing, it is just a name)

Question 34

what is the metaphysical view of Hume?

Answer 34

empiricism

Question 35

what does Hume's view of personhood lack?

Answer 35

there is no continuity

Question 36

how do Aquinas and Scotus differ on God?

Answer 36

God's essence is his existence, different from us

Question 37

what is the logos for Heraclitus?

Answer 37

unchanging principle of change

Question 38

how does Plato resolve the infinite regress?

Answer 38

he talks about the Archforms; sameness, difference, rest, and motion

Question 39

what is organization from the top?

Answer 39

universal directs the particulars

Question 40

what is organization from the bottom?

Answer 40

particulars direct the universal

Question 41

what is internal unity?

Answer 41

oneness and uniqueness

Question 42

what is external unity?

Answer 42

individuals brought together (airplane)

Question 43

where does prime matter originate?

Answer 43

it comes from God. It is the potential in each one of us