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This set of Western Philosophy Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Western Philosophy Set 3

Q1 | Who said that everything is a mixture of earth, air, fire, and water
  • anaximander
  • plato
  • socrates
  • anaxagoras
Q2 | ------- philosopher is the main source of Anaxagoras
  • socrates
  • pythagoras
  • plato
  • herodotus
Q3 | -----gave a power and grandeur to Athenian Democracy
  • pericles
  • thales
  • protagoras
  • anaximander
Q4 | -- --is an important element introduced by Anaxagoras into hisphilosophy and it is the cause of motion.
  • change
  • god
  • matter
  • mind/ nous
Q5 | The atomists are the last pre-Socratics and they follow------
  • physis
  • religion
  • theism
  • idealism
Q6 | The word atom means ----
  • cuttable
  • thesis
  • antithesis
  • uncuttable
Q7 | ------is believed to be a disciple of Leucippus
  • protagoras
  • democritus
  • anaximander
  • plato
Q8 | ------ say that all things consist of a single kind of matter broken intotiny particles.
  • plato
  • aristotle
  • atomists
  • protagoras
Q9 | Who claimed that there are two fundamental types of elements: atomsand void.
  • socrates
  • atomists
  • plato
  • idealist
Q10 | Who held that the atoms were so small as to be invisible?
  • democritus
  • pythagoras
  • aristotle
  • plato
Q11 | Sophia which means -----
  • wisdom
  • speech
  • action
  • concept
Q12 | Protagoras a native of --------in northeast Greece
  • clazomen
  • samos
  • stagira
  • abdera
Q13 | Who was the first of the professional Sophists?
  • socrates
  • democritus
  • protagoras
  • plato
Q14 | Who said that instead of speaking well think well?
  • thales
  • aristotle
  • plato
  • socrates
Q15 | Truth and On the Gods are the woks of -------
  • plato
  • socrates
  • protagoras
  • anaximander
Q16 | ------ were more concerned with public speaking, rather than thinkingwell.
  • materialists
  • rationalists
  • idealists
  • sophists
Q17 | Man is the measure of all things, says -----
  • leucippus
  • protagoras
  • socrates
  • aristotle
Q18 | Maieutic means -----
  • midwifery
  • dialectical
  • perceptual
  • universal
Q19 | --- ?says that knowledge is an adjustment between the knower and theobject known
  • plato
  • aristotle
  • protagoras
  • st.anselm
Q20 | -----was known as a self- taught philosopher
  • anaximander
  • plato
  • socrates
  • st. augustine
Q21 | Who was known as the street genius philosopher?
  • socrates
  • plato
  • aristotle
  • pythagoras
Q22 | Who was the author of philosophic tendency and of a Philosophicmethod of irony?
  • socrates
  • aquinas
  • plato
  • protagoras
Q23 | Who said that the first step is to be wise is to admit that one is not wise.
  • plato
  • anselm
  • socrates
  • thales
Q24 | According to ------, knowledge is virtue and ignorance is vice
  • thales
  • plato
  • pythagoras
  • socrates
Q25 | Who said that as virtue is knowledge, so virtue can be thought?
  • leucippus
  • protagoras
  • socrates
  • aristotle