Philosophers (I)
This philosopher is considered "the first" true philosopher.
Who is Thales?
This philosopher discovered that mathematics is the language of creation.
Who is Pythagoras?
This is the term for a search for reasonable proofs apart from the information of the senses.
What is rationalism?
If Anaxagoras' Mind is too transcendent, then Parmenides' One is too ____________.
What is imminent?
This philosopher declared that all is air.
Who is Anaximanes?
This philosopher believed that the whole of reality was composed of innumerable, eternal, invisible atoms.
Who is Democritus?
This is the epistemic method by which Thales reached his metaphysical conclusion.
What is empiricism?
If Anaximander's Boundless was too universal, Thales' water was too __________.
What is particular?
This philosopher declared that "all is the Boundless."
Who is Anaximander?
This philosopher believed in the antithesis of Empedocles' personal forces of Love and Strife.
Who is Anaxagoras?
What is the Antithesis?
This was Heraclitus' term for the universal fire that begets change.
What is the Logos?
This philosopher declared that "all is fire."
Who is Heraclitus?
This philosopher's goal was to provide empirical proof of Parmenides' rationalism.
Who is Zeno?
Who are the Sophists?
Why is Anaximenes' "all is air" philosophy considered a synthesis?
Because air is both an empirical elemental (like Thales' water) and a rational invisible (like Anaximander's Boundless).
This philosopher said that "man is the measure of all things."
Who is Protagoras?
This philosopher believed that "everything was One."
Who is Parmenides?
This is the term for an "irresolvable contradiction in reality."
What is aporia?
This was the chief shortcoming of the pre-Socratics philosophy.
What is the inability to make the essence/existence distinction.