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A quantity that has both a magnitude and direction.
What is a vector?
A moral philosopher and founder of Western philosophy.
Who is Socrates?
Two types of arguments in philosophy
What are deductive and inductive?
One of Newton's laws about inertia.
What is Newton's first law?
The philosopher who portrayed Socrates in his major works?
Who is Plato?
A tendency to do nothing or to remain unchanged.
What is inertia?
"Life is very beautiful, it is not this ugly thing we have made of it."
Who is Jiddu Krishnamurti?
Two words that explains rationalism and empiricism.
What are reason and experience?
The calculation of net force.
What is the sum of all forces acting on an object?
A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning.
What is an allegory?
The resistance that one surface or object encounters when moving over another.
What is friction?
Advocate for moral philosophy as freedom.
Who is Kant?
The objects that were behind the people in Plato's cave.
What are statues?
A hypothesis that has been tested repeatedly and has not been contradicted (with evidence).
What is a law?
The discoverer of gravity.
Who is Isaac Newton?
A supposition or system of ideas intended to explain something.
What is a theory?
The first person to measure the diameter of the earth?
Who is Erastosthenes?
The branch of philosophy dealing with the origin, structure, and processes of the universe.
What is cosmology?
Next step after formulating and objectively testing the hypothesis.
What is interpreting the results?
The diameter of the sun.
What is 865,370 miles?
Example of a maxim.
Know Thyself
Advocate for philosophy as limited but still a valuable pursuit.
Who is Bertrand Russell?
The branch of philosophy concerned with the nature and scope of knowledge.
What is epistemology?
The equation to measure the moon's diameter when using a coin.
What is coin diameter and coin distance and moon diameter and moon distance?
Galileo's inclined planes.
What is the name of Galileo's experiment on inertia?