Exam 3: Plato the Divided Line and the Cave

For Heidegger, the first question "embraces all that is, and that means not only what is now present at hand in the broadest sense, but also what has previously been and what will be in the future. The domain of this question is limited only by what simply is not and never is: by ..."

According to Plato, the areas below the divided line are referred to as the Participatory World.

Cavendish claims that since figure, motion, and matter are but one thing, and that no particular motion is or can be lost in nature, nor created anew, therefore motion is ...

How does Hawley define "scientific realism"?

Why does Shepherd think that the ideas of Berkeley and Hume have resulted in universal skepticism? Do you agree with Shepherd? Explain your answer.

For Heidegger, "All essential questioning in philosophy necessarily remains untimely, and this is because philosophy either projects far beyond its own time or else binds its time back to this time's earlier and inceptive past."

What is Leibniz's point when he claims that Monads have no windows?

According to Berkeley, "The ideas imprinted on the Senses by the Author of nature are called __________; and those excited in the imagination being less regular, vivid, and constant, are more properly termed __________."

What term does Heidegger use to mean "humans as they relate to being"?

Hawley explains that the term "metaphysically relevant" is understood to mean something like "consistent with our beliefs about what we observe" or even "consistent with the truth about what we observe."

Locke concludes "that innateness is the first operation of all our intellectual faculties, and the inlet of all knowledge in our minds."

According to Plato, what is the Idea of Good? Why is it important?

Leibniz says, "Thus it may be said that a Monad can only come into being or come to an end all at once; that is to say, it can come into being only by ________ and come to an end only by ____________."

Describe the Perceptual World in Plato's divided line.

According to Plato, reasoning and understanding belong to the Conceptual World.

Where do the natural changes of the Monads come from?

Berkeley says, "all those bodies which compose the mighty frame of the world, have not any subsistence without a mind, that their being is to be perceived or known; that consequently so long as they are not actually perceived by me, or do not exist in my mind or that of any other created spirit, they must either have no existence at all, or else subsist in the mind of some Eternal Spirit."

According to Shepherd, the question concerning our knowledge of the existence of body, "it is recollection, which taking notice of the whole of our perceptions, and of their mutual relations, affords those proofs of body which first generate, and after examination will substantiate, the belief of its existence."

MacDonald warns us that "for unless we do become clear about how different sentences in our language function we shall continue liable to be bemused by ______________ statements used as political slogans."

Hawley relates that "One widely-discussed example is the apparent conflict between the special theory of relativity (STR) and __________, the view that only what is present exists."