Philosophy Quiz

Call the theory according which all the objects in the universe are composed of very small, indestructible elements?

• neotomism

• cosmism

• atomism

• elementism

• objectism

Call the philosophical notion according which any system of thought which denies the causal nexus and maintains that events succeed one another haphazardly or by chance (not in the mathematical but in the popular sense)?

• accidentalism

• theism

• actionism

• modelism

• eregism

What philosophical direction denies the reality of the universe, seeing it as ultimately illusory, (the preffix "a-" in Greek meaning negation; like "un-" in English), and considers the infinite Unmanifest Absolute as real?

• theism

• acosmism

• elementism

• modelism

• eregism

What philosophical view considers tha truth values of certain claims — particularly theological claims regarding the existence of God, gods, or deities — are unknown, inherently unknowable, or incoherent, and therefore, (some agnostics may go as far to say) irrelevant to life?

• coherentism

• animism

• agnosticism

• materialism

• nominalism

The attempt to reconcile disparate, even opposing, beliefs and to meld practices of various schools of thought. It is especially associated with the attempt to merge and analogize several originally discretetraditions, especially in the theology and mythology of religion, and thus assert an underlying unity.

• scientism

• discretism

• disparatism

• syncretism

• politism

The philosophical notion that encompasses both atheism and agnosticism.

• atheistic atomism

• agnostic pluralism

• social existentialism

• agnostic atheism

• pragmatism

The apparently paradoxical idea that a proposition or theory cannot be scientific if it does not admit the possibility of being shown false.

• truth

• evil

• falsificationism

• empiriocriticism

• scientism

Philosophical notion according which any justification or knowledge theory in epistemology holds beliefs are justified (known) when they are based on basic beliefs (also called foundational beliefs).

• foundationalism

• systematism

• structuralism

• monism

• vitalism

What school of philosophy attempted to prove God's existence? Many medieval thinkers greatly influenced future philosophers and rationalists who What century did philosophy begin?

• atomist

• materialist

• rationalists

• communistic

• nominalistic

Call the Gilson’s book.

• "Reason and Revelation in the Middle Ages".

• Beauty and the evil

• Will of power

• Philosophy and metaphysic

• Democritus and epicures