Philosophers
“Father of Western Philosophy”
Who is Thales of Miletus
A way of thinking that explains the world through supernatural causes
What is Mythos
Reduced to its most basic parts
Who is Reductionism
General to Specific
What is DIVISION
Personal Attack/Abusive - Attacking the person
What is ARGUMENTATUM AD HOMINEM
Successor of Heraclitus
Founder of the Eleatic School
Who is Parmenides
Cosmos as the center
What is Cosmo Centric
Reality is made up of many different things
Pluralism
False accent or false emphasis
What is ACCENT / PROSODY
Appeal to people
Persuasively emotive language
What is AD POPULUM
Cosmos is a structured system ordered by numbers
Who is Pythagoras
One substance believer
what is Monist
One continuous object or plenum
What is Being
Awkward construction of a sentence
What is AMPHIBOLY
Pleading for mercy and disregarding the point in question
What is AD MISERICORDIUM
Reality is a cycle of destruction and creation
Only thing that does not change is change itself
Who is Heraclitus
Everything tends toward equilibrium
What is Principle of Entropy
Created when infinite atoms come together
What is First Atomic Theory
A word with different uses is used with the same meaning.
What is EQUINOCATION
Use of Physical Force or Moral Pressure to win an argument.
What is AD BACULUM
Agreed with Thales, but it must be reduced to its simplest form
Who is Anaximenes
Other elements are mere transformations of Air
What is Rarefaction
Appearance of stability
What is Fire
Similarity in meaning from the similarity of the material
What is WORD CONSTRUCTION
Begging the Question
What is PETITIO PRINCIPII