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