Philosophy Test

Why are the presocratics considered to be the first scientist?

True or False: When we are talking about the presocratic, the ionic, and the materialist we are talking about roughly the same group of people?

• True

• False

What did the early philosophers have in common?

• how things in nature come into being and cease to be

• identified the active and the passive principles

• the causa efficiens and the causa materialis

• All of the above are correct

Define the material substance or “unity underlying diversity”

Who believed that the material substance was water?

• Thales

• Empedocles

• Heraclitus

• Anaximenes

Who is considered to be the first philosopher?

• Anaximander

• Thales

• Aristotle

• Parmenides

Who tried to use experimentation to prove that the underlying principle is air?

• Empedocles

• Heraclitus

• Anaximenes

• Anaxagoras

Explain the ideas of one of the presocratic philosopher ( “unity underlying diversity” )