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Revision quiz #002

1. Who said that western philosophy was just a series of footnotes to Plato?
2. Why might some people object to the idea that Plato has a theory of the Forms?
3. What changes did the Peloponnesian War bring about for Plato and his family?
4. "In Greek, the word for Forms is more correctly translated as ideas". Is that statement true or false?
5. What is the problem of universals?
6. Why did Plato suggest that a flowing river is a good example of the problem of trying to attain true knowledge of things via the senses?
7. What is Plato's favourite way of speaking about the Forms?
8. In the Republic, Plato relates all knowledge to the Form of the...?
9. Aside from his Third Man Argument, what other reason did Aristotle give for rejecting Plato's notion of the Forms?
10. Which British philosopher claimed that Plato's Forms provided justification for totalitarian forms of government, and why?