All About FDA
What is FDA’s favorite winter sport?
Skiing
“Then why has the fool said in his heart that there is no God, when it is evident to a rational mind that your being is the greatest of all?”
Who was Saint Anselm?
What is “Post Hoc Ergo Proctor Hoc?
The false cause- this is where someone assumes B follows A, so therefore A must cause B.
This philosopher believed in a world of perfect, unchanging Forms that exist beyond our physical reality.
Plato
What is reality? Does it exist independently of our minds or only through perception?
Realists like Aristotle believed reality exists independently of us, while Berkeley argued it only exists through perception (“to be is to be perceived”).
Where did FDA attend Undergrad?
Thomas Aquinas College
Who said it? “Man is by nature a political animal."
Aristotle
Also known as “phenomenological time”, it is more of an awareness of physical time rather than a kind of time itself.
What is psychological time
Knowledge comes from sense experience + abstraction
Aristotle
What philosophical discussion questions do humans have free will, or are all actions determined?
Descartes and Sartre
What country did FDA go to for University?
Ireland
“ Knowledge is the food of the soul”.
Plato
Provide a definition for the term “category mistake.”
a logical fallacy in which something is applied to a logical category that it does not belong to
forms are particulars; can be made into universals.
Aristotle
This thought experiment describes a scientist who knows everything physical about color but never has experienced it.
Mary’s Room
This account was the Top Fan from the Philosophy of Mind Livestream.
AbjectFool
“All things come from air.”
Anaximenes of Miletus
This view argues that past, present, and future events all equally exist in a “block universe.
What is the eternalism theory of time?
This philosopher described the mind as tabula rasa, or blank slate, at birth.
John Locke
These are the three different “kinds” of time according to the “Philosophy of Time” article.
physical, psychological, biological
How old is FDA?
48, turning 49
This philosopher argued that “strong” artificial intelligence cannot possess a conscience due to a lack of understanding.
John Searle
The view that reality is fundamentally mental and physical objects exist only as ideas in our mind.
Idealism
Everything comes from four elements (earth, air, fire, and water)
Empedocles
What philosophical discussion questions if an object remains the same if all its parts are replaced. This discussion challenges whether identity rests on material components, structural continuity, or function.
The ship of Theseus Paradox