Pre-Socratics

Which of the following is a question the pre-Socratics were attempting to answer?

• What is everything made of?

• How are stone houses so tall?

• What is the function of air?

• None of these

True or False: In response to the question "How do things change?" Heraclitus claimed there was a giant T-Rex in the sky with normal sized arms who moved everything according to his will.

• True

• False

Monism claims that....

• everything in the world is made from a singular type of substance

• everything in the world is made from multiple types of substance

• everyone is a monist

• everyone is a pluralist

Pluralism claims that....

• everything in the world is made from a singular type of substance

• everything in the world is made from multiple types of substance

• everyone is a monist

• everyone is a pluralist

Thales thought that everything was made of...

• water

• fire

• dinosaur bones

• air

Anaximander thought that everything was made of...

• the indefinite

• water

• fire

• air

Anaximenes thought that everything was made of...

• air

• water

• fire

• stone

Heraclitus thought that everything was made of...

• fire

• water

• air

• sea monster remains

Heraclitus really meant that...

• everything stays the same

• everything is in a constant state of change

• change did not exist, because everything was always changing, so one could not define change

• Jesus never changes

Pythagoras claimed that...

• everything was made of numbers

• everything was a physical representation of a mathematical equation

• water was at the root of everything

• fire is god