Nature of Reality

Question 1

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

Answer 1

Pre-socratics

Question 2

Proponents of materialism?

Answer 2

Thales
Anaximenes
Heraclitus
Empedocles
Anaximander
Democritus

Question 3

Everything was water

Answer 3

Thales

Question 4

Everything is air

Answer 4

Anaximenes

Question 5

Believed that everything was fire and change

Answer 5

Heraclitus

Question 6

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

Answer 6

Empedocles

Question 7

Believed that everything was made of Apeiron

Answer 7

Anaximander

Question 8

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

Answer 8

Democritus

Question 9

Proponents of Immaterialism

Answer 9

Pythagoras
Parmenides
Zeno
Heraclitus

Question 10

Believed that the world was made up of numbers

Answer 10

Pythagoras

Question 11

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

Answer 11

Parmenides

Question 12

World of forms is the world of ( )

Answer 12

ideas

Question 12

Believed that there was no such thing as change and motion

Answer 12

Parmenides and Zeno

Question 13

Believed that everything changes but change itself

Answer 13

Heraclitus

Question 14

The term Plato used for the world we experience

Answer 14

Sensible world

Question 14

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

Answer 14

perceptible

Question 15

Matter as ( )

Answer 15

Less reality

Question 16

Form as ( )

Answer 16

Ultimate reality

Question 16

Who proposed that becoming is being

Answer 16

Aristotle

Question 17

According to Aristotle, both of these are reality

Answer 17

matter and form

Question 18

Proponents of Idealism

Answer 18

Berkeley
Kant
Schopenhauer
Hegel

Question 19

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

Answer 19

Transcendental Idealism

Question 20

Proposed that to be is to be perceived

Answer 20

Berkeley

Question 20

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

Answer 20

Subjective Idealism

Question 21

Proposed that there was an accessible and inaccessible world

Answer 21

Kant

Question 22

The terms Kant used for the accessible and inaccessible world

Answer 22

Phenomenal (accessible) and Noumenal (Inaccessible)

Question 23

Proposed that reality is imposed by will and was irrational

Answer 23

Schopenhauer

Question 24

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

Answer 24

Irrationalism

Question 25

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

Answer 25

Hegel

Question 26

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

Answer 26

Absolute Idealism

Question 27

Term for reality as progress

Answer 27

Teleology