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What was the fundamental question treated in Aristotles work, Metaphysics?
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What is the nature of Being?
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Who were the pre-socratic philosophers?
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The western philosophers that lived in IONIA on the coast of Asia minor during the 6th century.
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Who was the first Western philosopher?
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Thales
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What is the basic substance, according to Thales?
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All is water.
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What is the basic substance, according to Anaxiander?
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He though the subtances must be ageless, boundless and Indeterminate. Beggining from nucleus fire and dark mist, fire.
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What does Anaximenes claim the basic substance to be?
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Air
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Who was Pythagorus, and what were his main ideas?
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His main ideas were 2 points make a line, 3 points define a surface, solids are made of surfaces, and bodies our made out of solids.
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Who was Theano?
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She is Pythagorus wife, an she helps describe what she thinks her husband meant which is intimacy between things and #'s.
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What does Heraclitus mean "all is fire?"
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He though it was an essential feature of reality; namely that is ceaselessly changing.
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What are the views of of Heraclitus regarding change and permanence?
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"one cannot step in the same river twice." You are not the same person today as you were yesterday. and thats for EVERYTHING.
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What is the " Logos" in Heraclitus view?
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He saw ALL change as determined by a cosmic order.
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Was Parmenides interested in discovering the fundamental substance that constitues everything?
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He was not interested.
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What are the characteristics of being, according to Parmenides?
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He based everything that was "assumed" and are known prior to experience
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Can being, itself, change, according to Parmenedes?
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He concluded BEING DOES NOT CHANGE
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How does the thought of Parmenides differ from that of the Milesians?
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Milesians looked around the world to come up with their conclusions, Parmenides instead came up with conclusions that anyone could guess.
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What are the four basic material particles, according to Empedocles?
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Earth, air, fire and water.
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What explanation does empedocles give for why changes occur?
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Empedocles thought that the basic elements enter new combinations under 2 forces-LOVE and STRIFE. which are essentialy forces of attraction and decomposition.
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What 2 forces operate on the elements, accoding to Empedocles?
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LOVE AND STRIFE
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What are the names of the 2 pre-socratic philosophers who were atomists?
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Leucippus and Democritus
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Are atoms infinitely divisible, according to atomists?
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Yes
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What is Determinism?
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The view that future states and events are completely determined by proceding states and events.
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What is the Void?
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An empty Space
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Did Parmenides believe in the void?
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He argued that void is not possible.
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Do atoms operate in accordance with physical laws?
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Yes they do.
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