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Department of Education
CARAGA Administrative Region
Division of Dinagat Islands
PRIMITIVO J. EBOL MEMORIAL NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
Magsaysay, Dinagat, Dinagat Islands
School I.D. 324406

MIDTERM EXAMINATION IN
INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY

Name: _____________________ Date: ___________

Grade/Level: _______________

I - Multiple Choice. Encircle only the letter of the best answer.

1. Proponent of the notion that reality is made up of four elements: earth, air, fire, and water.
A. Heraclitus B. Pythagoras C. Empedocles D. Anaximander

2. It is the 'eye of the mind'.

A. Knowledge B. Intellect C. Truth D. Wisdom

3. The result of judgment.

A. Concept B. Percepts C. Image or Phantasm D. Proposition

4. The process of unifying information from the multiplicity of the things around them.
A. Abstraction B. Apprehension C. Conception D. Perception

5. Believed that there is not just one element that reality is made of. For him there are as many as seeds or
elements as there are kinds of things.
A. Anaxagoras B. Anixamander C. Leucippus and Democritus D. Anaximenes

6. Known to have said the following: “You cannot step twice into the same rivers, for fresh waters are over
flowing in upon you. we step and do not step into the same rivers, we are and are not.”
A. Pythagoras B. Parmenides C. Heraclitus D. Empedocles

7. Claimed that the fundamental substance of reality is the infinite or apeiron.

A. Anaxagoras B. Anixamander C. Leucippus and Democritus D. Anaximenes

8. The following are three Miletians, except.

A. Anaximenes B. Anaximander C. Anaxagoras D. Thales

9. He believed that the primary constituents of reality would be numbers.

A. Parmenides B. Leucippus and Democritus C. Pythagoras D. Empedocles

10. Works on the assumption that all properties in a given system cannot be broken down by its component parts
alone, but rather the system as a whole entity decides how the individual parts behave.
A. Holistic Philosophy B. Analytic Philosophy
C.Reductionist Philosophy D. Speculative Philosophy

II - Identification. Write your answer on the space provided that best corresponds to the statement given.

________________11. It has to do with lower type of knowledge, which is associated with mathematical,
abstract or scientific understanding.
________________12. Contributed the idea that the ultimate substance that reality is made of are atoms.
________________13. He believes that “the only thing that is permanent in this world is change.”
________________14. He gave a definite shape, by claiming that the earth and other heavenly bodies, for that
matter are like saucers floating in the air. Thuus, the earth is flat and round.
________________15. Holds the notion of Newtonian assumption that a complex system is nothing but just a
sum of its parts and that everything can be reduced to individual properties.
________________16. cogito, ergo, sum
________________17. Result of the process of abstraction or simple apprehension or conception.
________________18. First introduced the concept of Reductionism during 17th Century in part V of his treatise
called Discourse on the Method.
________________19. Takes emphasis and makes use of the data or the content from experience and its
correspondence with the state of affairs to establish the truth or falsity of their knowledge claims.
________________20. Father of Western Philosophy
III. Enumeration.

21-22. Types of Perception

23-25. Characteristics of Philosophic Question or Problem

26-27. Two Levels of Knowledge

28-29. Two main approaches in Doing Philosophy

30-31 Two Methods of Philosophizing

IV. Essay. Answer briefly the questions that follow.

1. Explain the three major stages in the apprehension of a concept before knowledge becomes possible. (5 pts.)

2. Why do philosophy considered as a second-order inquiry? (3 pts)

3. Choose one of the philosophers that we discussed who made a great impact in you and write his greatest
contribution. (3 pts.)

4. Explain the distinction between Analytic statement and Empirical statement. (3 pts.)

5. Explain Plato’s metaphysical system as shown in the illustration below. (5 pts.)

World of Forms and Ideas

GOOD

mathematical Perfect World Soul

Knowledge

abstract

Material object
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