Philosophy Exam I Chapter Two

In saying that all things are full of gods, Thales apparently meant that
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In saying that all things are full of gods, Thales apparently meant that
events in the world could be explained in terms of events in the world.
Thales could be considered the first scientist because
he tried to understand the world in a nonpersonal way.
Anaximander's argument for the Boundless as that out of which all things come
assumes that observable features of the world all need explaining.
How does Anaximander explain the generation of the many things in our experience?
By positing a cosmic swirl or vortex which spins similar things into groups.
When Anaximander says that things make reparations to each other for injustice, he means that
inherent in nature is a principle of balance.
Xenophanes criticizes the Homeric gods
as unworthy of our admiration and respect.
Because of his criticisms of the gods, Xenophanes
was hounded out of Athens.
Xenophanes says that with respect to the truth,
even if we knew it, we couldn't know for sure that we knew it.
What, according to Heraclitus, is wisdom?
Understanding the thought that steers all things.
Most people, Heraclitus says,
live as though their thought were private to themselves.
Heraclitus believes that oppositionis an essential and necessary part of reality.Heraclitus says thatit is not good for men to get everything they want.Parmenides is rightly called a rationalist becausehe is willing to follow the argument wherever it leads.The One of Parmenides isunchanging, all alike, and eternal.Parmenides says that a goddess spoke and told himto judge by reasoning what she tells him.Zeno argues thatan arrow cannot move at all, even though it seems to us that it does.A reductio ad absurdum argumentreduces its assumed premise to absurdity.Democritusreconciles the arguments of Parmenides with what our senses tell us about change and the many.Democritus says that sweet and bitter exist by convention. By this he means thatif we came to agree they didn't exist, they would disappear.Which of the following does Democritus not say?The needy man knows how much he needs.