Unit 2 - Metaphysics

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Across
  1. 1. A perfect, timeless, unchanging essence of something.
  2. 4. A theory which says all events, including actions, are determined by previously existing causes extending back in time.
  3. 8. The view that things are fundamentally mentally constructed ideas, with no reality as material objects outside of the mind.
  4. 11. A monist who added that the one all-encompassing thing (in monism) can be divine, or material or mental.
  5. 12. Who was a famous philosopher that was a dualist?
  6. 13. A branch of metaphysics that deals with the nature of being and reality.
  7. 15. An alternate name which many philosophers have called metaphysics.
  8. 18. A philosopher who supported materialism.
  9. 19. Which philosopher is responsible for the theory of realism?
Down
  1. 2. A theory stating that all existing things are derived from an all-encompassing source that is distinct from them. These things are all expressions of this one entity.
  2. 3. A theory stating that reality is constructed of ideal forms and ideas that are unchanging, immaterial, and more perfect than the things sensed in the material world.
  3. 5. A theory made by PreSocratic philosophers stating reality (including thoughts, consciousness, and personality) consists of matter.
  4. 6. A branch of philosophy which examines the fundamental nature or in other words the basic structures of reality.
  5. 7. The fundamental nature of a thing which makes an entity/substance what it fundamentally is. This is unchanging.
  6. 9. The basic element that makes up things. Something with an independent existence.
  7. 10. Metaphysics was called by this Greek phrase meaning ‘the books that come after the physics’ before it was called metaphysics.
  8. 14. Who said that ordinary objects are only collections of ideas, which are mind-dependent?
  9. 16. A theory stating that reality is made of two kinds of things – mind and matter.
  10. 17. Another term for materialism.