Philosophy
Using questioning to draw out answers - not "filling an empty vessel"
Socratic Method
The author of "The Republic"?
Plato
What is the Black Death (or Bubonic Plague)?
This 14th-century pandemic, also known as the "Great Mortality," wiped out nearly half of Europe's population and drastically shifted the labor market.
What is Deductive Reasoning?
This fundamental type of reasoning starts with a general premise and follows it to its necessary, logical conclusion—the opposite of inductive reasoning.
What is the First Law of Thermodynamics?
This fundamental law of thermodynamics states that energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed from one form to another.
The four causes of Artistotle
What is Material, formal, efficient, final
The way in which one reaches Nirvana
What is following the Eight Fold Path
What is Impressionism?
This art movement of the early 20th century, led by Claude Monet, focused on the shifting effects of light and used visible, thin brushstrokes.
What is a Tautology?
In propositional logic, this is a statement that is true in every possible interpretation, such as the statement "It is raining or it is not raining."
What is the Central Dogma (of Molecular Biology)?
This core concept of modern biology describes how the genetic information in DNA is transcribed into RNA and then translated into proteins.
Name of the writing about what reality really is
Allegory of the Cave
Knowing your place in society - Confucius. How do we call this?
Filial Piety
What is the Rosetta Stone?
This 1799 discovery in Egypt provided the key to deciphering hieroglyphics because it featured the same decree written in three different scripts.
What is Russell’s Paradox?
This set-theory paradox describes a barber who shaves only those who do not shave themselves, leading to a contradiction when asking if the barber shaves himself.
What is Gravitational Lensing?
This astronomical phenomenon occurs when a massive object, like a galaxy cluster, bends the light of a more distant object, acting like a cosmic magnifying glass.
The founder of Buddhism (before he became Buddha)
Siddhartha Gautama
Karl Marx believed that life was a struggle between these two classes
Proletariat and the Bourgeoisie
What is Sfumato?
This artistic technique, famously mastered by Leonardo da Vinci, uses fine shading to produce soft, transitionless gradations between colors and tones.
What are Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems?
These two landmark theorems of mathematical logic prove that in any consistent system, there are true statements that can neither be proven nor disproven.
What is Quantum Entanglement?
This counter-intuitive quantum principle states that two particles can remain connected such that the state of one instantly influences the state of the other, regardless of distance.
What is Transubstantial Motion (al-haraka al-jawhariyya)?
This radical metaphysical doctrine, central to Mulla Sadra’s school, claims that the inner essence or "substance" of the world is in a state of constant, fluid change toward perfection, rather than being static.
What is the Ontological Argument?
Found in the Proslogion, this famous "a priori" proof defines God as "that than which nothing greater can be conceived," arguing that if such a being exists in the mind, it must logically exist in reality.
What is the Peace of Westphalia?
This 1648 series of peace treaties ended the Thirty Years' War and established the modern concept of Westphalian Sovereignty, or the nation-state.
What is P vs NP?
One of the seven Millennium Prize Problems, this question asks if every problem whose solution can be quickly verifiedcan also be quickly solved.
What is the Event Horizon?
This hypothetical "boundary" surrounding a black hole is the point of no return, where the escape velocity required exceeds the speed of light.