9 Questions
What is the term for signs that represent spoken words but have no physical resemblance to the meaning?
Logographic
Which ancient civilization applied mathematics to astronomy for purposes such as determining harvest times and creating a calendar?
Ancient Mesopotamia
Who is known for the statement 'No man ever steps in the same river twice. The only constant is the change itself' and is associated with the question of ontology?
Heraclitus
Which philosopher was against writing, believing it made people lazy?
Socrates
What did Plato associate with knowledge, suggesting it comes from within through reasoning?
Rationalist+nativism
According to Descartes, what is the only certain statement one can make?
I doubt
What does Descartes believe about the mind and body?
They are distinct entities
What did John Locke propose about human knowledge?
It comes from experience
Which philosophical concept aligns with the idea that human knowledge is a construction of the mind?
Idealism
Test your knowledge on preliterate culture, practical knowledge limited to two generations, animism, proto writing, pictograms, phonograms, logographic writing, the Fertile Crescent, ancient Egypt's contributions to geometry, calendar, and hieroglyphs, as well as ancient Mesopotamia's mathematical applications to astronomy.
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