Heraclitus referred to ultimate reality as:
Fleeting and Changeable.
Like the fluctuating flow of a river.
An ever-lasting fire.
All of the above.
2. For Heraclitus, underlying the opposite qualities that we can observe in things there was a unity which he called:
The apeiron.
Nous.
The Logos.
Chaerephon.
3. Parmenides based his views concerning the ultimate nature of Being on:
a. Arguments derived from careful sense observations of the world.
b. Experiments made in his own laboratory.
c. A priori arguments, that is arguments not based on sense experience.
d. All of the above.
4. Anaximander’s opinion on the boundless as an Indefinite, chaotic mixture is that:
The universe will forever remain a chaotic mixture of undifferentiated elements.
All will eventually burn and become a fiery plasma.
The universe will collapse in on itself ( a sort of reverse Big Bang) and all will become earth.
A vortex motion of elements in the Boundless produces out current ordered and sorted world.
5. Aristotle speculated that Thales viewed water as the ultimate primordial stuff because:
a. Water had no opposite element in nature.
b. Water is necessary for the nourishment of life.
c. Water was Boundless and Indefinite.