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6. Which of the following best describes the structure of the Forms?

  • Hierarchical
  • Subservient
  • Egalitarian
  • Linear

7. What is meant by the one over many argument?

  • As we recognise similarities between particulars we have an innate ability to recognise the 'one' that is over the 'many'.
  • Philosophers should rule society as they are the one over the many.
  • Because each Form would need a Form of a Form, the chain of Forms must go on infinitely.
  • The Form of the Good has to sit above all Forms

8. Which of the following is a feature particulars rather than Forms?

  • They are eternal
  • They are known through the intellect or reason
  • They are non-physical
  • They pass in and out of existence
  • They are immutable (unchanging)

9. Rationalism deals with which type of knowledge?

  • A Priori
  • A Posteriori

10. In Plato's analogy what does the cave that the prisoners are trapped in represent?

  • The Empirical world around us
  • The world of the forms
  • The limited nature of reason
  • The lack of rational souls

11. In Plato's analogy what does the sun represent?

  • The Human Soul
  • The Prime Mover
  • The Form of the Good
  • The Demiurge

12. Which thinker criticised the one over many argument and argued we simply recognise share characteristics because we have been taught to do so?

  • Wittgenstein
  • Aristotle
  • Hericlitus
  • Hume

13. What is the role of the Form of the good in the hierarchy of Forms?

  • To cause action or motion in the world
  • To interact with humans
  • To illuminate all others
  • To create the world

14. Which philosopher defended empiricism by using the example of melting beeswax?

  • Anscombe
  • Descartes
  • Wittgenstein
  • Hume

15. “Something is no more ‘X’ than it is ‘Y’” is an argument found in the work of which philosopher?

  • Plato
  • Heraclitus
  • Socrates
  • Aristotle