Philosophy

Question 1

The term philosophy attributed to _________ as he is said to be the first to use it.

Answer 1

Pythagoras

Question 2

The three classes of people by Pythagoras

Answer 2

-Lovers of gain
-Lovers of honor
-Lovers of knowledge or wisdom

Question 3

they seek profit who sell their wares for money

Answer 3

Lovers of gain

Question 4

they compete for honor

Answer 4

Lovers of honor

Question 5

they neither seek profit nor compete for honor, they are the spectators who seek for the truth

Answer 5

Lovers of knowledge or wisdom

Question 6

the fact or condition of being aware of something

Answer 6

knowledge

Question 7

the correct application of knowledge

Answer 7

wisdom

Question 8

literally means “after physics”

Answer 8

Metaphysics

Question 9

literally mean “Study of knowledge”

Answer 9

Epistemology

Question 10

study of the nature of reality

Answer 10

metaphysics

Question 11

study of reasoning, ______ incorporates the analysis of the methods of deduction and induction

Answer 11

logic

Question 12

Study how the person ought to act and the search for a definition of a right conduct and good life

Answer 12

ethics

Question 13

the study of action

Answer 13

ethics

Question 14

study of knowledge

Answer 14

metaphysics

Question 15

comes from the Greek word aisthetikos, which means “sensitive” or “perceptive

Answer 15

aesthetics

Question 16

study of art

Answer 16

aesthetics

Question 17

people had already attempted to explain the origin of things and events or occurrences in nature

Answer 17

pre-philosophical

Question 18

________ and ________continue the Miletian claim of a single, proper substance

Answer 18

Heraclitus and Xenophanes

Question 19

he claimed the “unity of opposites”

Answer 19

Heraclitus

Question 20

he claimed that there is a single God

Answer 20

Xenophanes

Question 21

Western philosophy is said to have begun in the Ionic colonies of Asia Minor

Answer 21

Pre-socratic

Question 22

known as the first Greek philosopher and the inquiry of searching for causes and principles of the natural world and various phenomena without relying on supernatural explanations and divine components.

Answer 22

Thales

Question 23

The _________ believe that the cosmos is a structured system ordered by numbers

Answer 23

Pythagoreans

Question 24

he believed that the earth floats on water

Answer 24

Thales

Question 25

they believe that nature can be quantified

Answer 25

Pythagoreans

Question 26

Considered the most flourishing. This period was dominated by three famous philosophers- Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle

Answer 26

Socratic

Question 27

He taught that knowledge through concepts was the only true knowledge-

Answer 27

Socrates

Question 28

he has greatly influenced Western philosophical tradition through Plato’s Dialogues

Answer 28

Socrates

Question 29

The philosopher in this period mainly had to answer the problem of how to save the intellectual and moral life of the nation, which was threatened by materialism and skepticism

Answer 29

Socratic

Question 30

He concluded that the concept, or the idea, was the only true reality

Answer 30

Plato

Question 31

His method focuses on analyzing phenomena or experience and proving credible opinions about these experiences to arrive at adequate proof.

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Aristotle

Question 32

________ is the science of the idea, or, as we should say, of the unconditioned basis of phenomena

Answer 32

Philosophy

Question 33

Lack of general agreement on how the subjects of concern may be defined.

Answer 33

non-philosophical

Question 34

Refers to the acceptance that a statement is true or that something exists.

Answer 34

belief

Question 35

________ is the aim of belief; falsity is a fault.

Answer 35

truth

Question 36

The correspondence theory of truth states that the key to truth is the relation (correspondence) between propositions and the world.

Answer 36

Correspondence theory of truth

Question 37

The coherence theory of truth states that the truth of any (true) proposition consists in it coherence with some specified set of propositions (or significant wholes).

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Coherence theory of truth

Question 38

“a belief is true if there exists an appropriate entity- a fact- to which it corresponds”

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Correspondence theory of truth

Question 39

Holds that a proposition is true if it is useful to believe it

Answer 39

Pragmatic theory of truth

Question 40

similar to post-logic

Answer 40

Correspondence theory of truth

Question 41

similar to logic

Answer 41

Coherence theory of truth