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This set of Western Philosophy Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Western Philosophy Set 2

Q1 | Aristotle mentioned theory of truth in his work------
  • analytic
  • ethics
  • epistemology
  • metaphysics
Q2 | For Plato, ---- are eternal ideas beyond the physical world.
  • forms
  • dialectics
  • phenomenon
  • episteme
Q3 | Who wrote Symposium?
  • thales
  • aristotle
  • plato
  • anaxagoras
Q4 | Aristotle was a student of ---
  • plato
  • socrates
  • protagoras
  • anaximander
Q5 | Who founded a school in Athens called Lyceum.
  • aristotle
  • plato
  • socrates
  • sophists
Q6 | ?There is no form without matter and no matter without form.?
  • leucippus
  • plato
  • socrates
  • aristotle
Q7 | Matter is the substance out of which everything in the world is made isthe statement of -----
  • anaxagoras
  • plato
  • aristotle
  • socrates
Q8 | Who discovered four causes that govern change in everything?
  • plato
  • aristotle
  • st.augustine
  • st.anselm
Q9 | Who believed that God created the world out of nothing and before Godcreated the world nothing existed?
  • anaximander
  • plato
  • socrates
  • st. augustine
Q10 | The City of God is the work of ----
  • st. augustine
  • plato
  • aristotle
  • pythagoras
Q11 | ------- predicted an eclipse of the sun
  • thales
  • pythagoras
  • socrates
  • plato
Q12 | Who was the first Milesian materialist philosopher?
  • heraclitus
  • anaximander
  • pythagoras
  • thales
Q13 | The major source of Thales?s philosophy is by
  • plato
  • pythagoras
  • socrates
  • aristotle
Q14 | Who said that living things are always moist?
  • plato
  • socrates
  • tales
  • anaximander
Q15 | Anaximander belongs to --------
  • stagira
  • miletus
  • samos
  • all are false
Q16 | Anaximander, a philosopher came after ------
  • anaximenes
  • plato
  • socrates
  • thales
Q17 | apeiron in Anaximander means -----
  • formal logic
  • infinite
  • eidos
  • hyle
Q18 | Anaximander's cosmogony gives rise to a
  • heliocentric
  • teleological
  • geocentric
  • god
Q19 | Who said that in the beginning man was similar to a different animal,namely, a fish.
  • anaximander
  • leucippus
  • pythagoras
  • thales
Q20 | The thinkers of Milesian school were the thinkers of ------
  • metaphysics
  • nature
  • religion
  • idealism
Q21 | Pythagoras was born on-------
  • samos
  • iona
  • athens
  • all are false
Q22 | Who believed in the immortality, transmigration, and reincarnation ofsouls?
  • ionians
  • atomists
  • pythagoras
  • eleatic
Q23 | Who included various dietary restrictions against meat and beans.
  • thales
  • pythagoras
  • anaximander
  • socrates
Q24 | Central to Pythagoreanism is the idea that --------- accounts takeprecedence over material things.
  • numbers
  • zeros
  • music
  • god
Q25 | ------is a Philosopher who made a distinction between mind and matter
  • anaxagoras
  • thales
  • socrates
  • democritus