Exam 1 Part 2

Plato's two-world doctrine implies that....

• Heracleitus was (partly) correct about the material world

• Heracleitus and Parmenides were BOTH correct about both worlds.

• Parmenides was (partly) correct about the world of the Forms.

• Heracleitus and Parmenides were BOTH wrong about both worlds.

If the two world doctrine is correct, Heracleitus is correct that the material world....

• is constantly changing (and therefore unknowable)

• is eternal, unchanging, and immaterial.

• is temporarily changing (only when awake).

• None of these

Which of the following are stages of progress towards knowledge (according to Plato)

• uncritical acceptance of conventional beliefs

• critical suspension of conventional beliefs from Socratic dialogue.

• the use of assumptions to reach reasonable (but incomplete) answers to Socratic questions.

• we reach knowledge of the Good through dialogue, since knowledge of all other Forms are based in the Good.

According to Plato, the Forms are...

• Immaterial

• Eternal

• Unchanging

• The source of all knowledge

• participated in by material objects

The "Third Man" objection is that...

• Because Plato locates the forms as immaterial, we have no way of gathering evidence about it.

• Because Plato's theory of the Forms posits a Form as unchanging, it implies an unwarranted assumption.

• Because Plato's theory of the Forms posits a Form for every property, it implies an infinite regress of Forms.

• Plato's use of the Form of the Good is doing too much heavy lifting for the theory (conceptually)

For Plato, universals ("redness","chairness","treeness","humanness") exist where?

• In the immaterial world of the Forms

• In the material objects in this world

• in the particular immaterial objects that are in this world

• In the conceptual framework in our heads.

For Aristotle, universals ("redness","chairness","treeness","humanness") exist where?

• In the particular material objects (as material cause)

• In the particular material objects (as formal cause)

• In the particular material objects (as efficient cause)

• In the particular material objects (as final cause)

Which of the following is NOT required for change, according to Aristotle?

• a subject that persists through time

• a non-persisting privation

• a non-persisting form

• a second subject that perishes after the privation is removed

For Aristotle, which is the subject of qualified becoming?

• material composition

• formal composition

• final composition

• ordinary substance

For Aristotle, which of the following is the subject of change in unqualified becoming?

• The matter (or material composition)

• The formal substance

• The final substance

• ordinary substance