Understanding Idealism and Realism

What is the main belief of idealists regarding reality?

• Reality is an illusion.

• Both ideas and material objects are real.

• Ideas are the only reality.

• Material objects are the only reality.

How do idealists view material things?

• As the essence of reality.

• As independent of the mind.

• As mutable and destructible.

• As immutable and indestructible.

According to realists, how do material objects exist?

• They are illusions.

• They exist independently of the human mind.

• They are dependent on ideas.

• They exist only in the mind.

What did Plato believe about the physical world?

• It is a copy of the world of forms.

• It is immutable and indestructible.

• It is the ultimate reality.

• It is the only reality.

In Plato's theory, what represents the true reality?

• The mutable world.

• The world of forms or ideas.

• The physical world.

• The destructible world.