OHSC0 Unit 3

Aristotle's response to Zeno's paradoxes involves distinguishing _______?

'divided' from 'divisible'

For Aristotle, the Material and Formal cause of a statue, respectively, could be:

Clay, human figure

The result of our attempts to resolve Zeno's paradoxes of motion proves that space, time, and motion are continuous.

False

If 'weight' is considered as a natural tendency of moving toward the centre of the universe, then Aristotle thinks that _____________ have no weight.

Fire and Air

Zeno's interpretation of his paradoxes is that they are supposed to show that __________ .

Motion is impossible

Which of the following does Aristotle NOT bring up in arguing that the Earth is spherical?

The visibility of stars in different seasons

Which of the following would Aristotle reject?

When seeking knowledge of the world, the senses are a wholly untrustworthy source.

If you and I are standing a fixed distance apart and observing the sky, then the less overlap there is in what we can see of the heavens, the _________ the curvature of the Earth's surface between us.

greater

To make sense of both variation and permanence, Empedocles posited __________ while Anaximenes suggested _________.

rhizomata (elements), mechanistic processes like rarefaction and condensation

Most commonly, water clocks could be inaccurate due to __________ and were not reliable at sea, but the chronometer's time-telling abilities allowed us to more accurately locate our __________.

water pressure variation, longitude