Marvin's Perplexing Philosophical Puzzle
Across
- 2. The philosophical teacher of Anaximander
- 5. Discovered the true cause of eclipses.
- 6. The belief that reality is fundamentally mental or spiritual.
- 7. The act of making a claim without sufficient evidence.
- 8. Founded "The Garden", a school based on this person's philosophical views.
- 10. Stated that "The unexamined life was not worth living"
- 11. "The Republic" was one of, if not his most famous work.
- 12. Presented four arguments in the form of paradoxes which were The Racecourse, Achilles and the Tortoise, The Arrow, and The Moving Blocks.
- 15. The founder of Pyrrhonism.
- 17. Involving the statement that since everything is matter, everything we see is a result of material interactions.
- 18. The belief that reality consists of one thing of which all particular things are manifestations.
Down
- 1. "The Republic" is one of his famous works.
- 3. An example of this is "when a teacher proposes that the class spend more time on math exercises, a parent complains that the teacher doesn't care about reading and writing."
- 4. "Since a nutritionist said that carbs are bad, I will never eat carbs again." is a statement related to this fallacy.
- 5. A man who postulated eternal motion and apeiron as the originating causes of the world.
- 9. Stating that “If I don't pass tomorrow's exam, this might affect my GPA, which in turn might impact my chances of going to a good college.” is an example of this fallacy.
- 13. This fallacy involves using many acronyms and abbreviations to appear more knowledgeable.
- 14. "There can be no science that fully explains consciousness."
- 16. A fallacy involving the stating of an unrelated argument.