Beliefs
What are the 4 roots that all matter can be composed of?
Earth, fire, water, air
___ says: Nothing can change, Our sensory perceptions must therefore be unreliable
Parmenides says: Nothing can change, Our sensory perceptions must therefore be unreliable
According to legend, how did he die?
He jumped into a volcanic crater to convince his followers of his divinity.
He was a vegitarian
false he was ✨vegan✨
What are the 2 forces he believed in?
love & strife
____ says: Everything follows “all things flow” Our sensory perceptions are reliable
Heraclitus says: Everything follows “all things flow” Our sensory perceptions are reliable
What was he considered the founder of?
The science of medicine in Italy.
He was born in 6th century BC
False. He was born in the 5th century BC
What did the 2 forces do?
Bring together and to separate the four substances.
Empedocles was associated with ___.
Empedocles was associated with dismantling an oligarchy.
What did he integrate into his periodic view of the world in order to explain the formation of the cosmos and the development of living things?
Vortex, spontaneous generation, and the survival of the fittest
Empedecles believed that love and strife only separated the four elements
False, he believed love and strife brought together and separated the four elements
In what shape was the cosmic cycle he created? And what is the order of the cycle?
In a sphere shape. Order: 1. love dominates 2. hate/strife intrudes into the world and co-exist with love 3. hate/strife becomes dominant 4. love becomes dominant again
Empedocles' hypothesis, explained the multitude of complexity seen in the world as being the ____ of small number of ____ ____ ____.
Empedocles' hypothesis, explained the multitude of complexity seen in the world as being the consequence of small number of simple underlying properties.
He was the first person to propose what?
That today's life on Earth arose from a process we could describe as a natural selection
Some people considered him the inventor of rhetoric and the founder of the science of medicine in Italy.
true
Why do we still look at Empedocles' four element theory?
We still look for simple mathematics which explain the complex phenomena that surrounds us.
Made scientific theories both with ___ and ___.
Made scientific theories both with evidence and reasoning.
Was he a rapper?
yes in his own sense
he was the avatar
yes but no