Unit 7 Quiz — Aristotle I: Substance, Cause, and Nature
Question 1 of 9
The 'Third Man' regress against Plato's Forms is driven by which assumption?
Aristotle's deepest objection to treating separate Forms as CAUSES is that…
A carpenter builds an oak table so people can dine at it. Which pairing of causes is correct?
What best characterizes Aristotle's teleology in nature?
In the Categories, a 'primary substance' is…
How does Aristotle's potentiality/actuality distinction dissolve Parmenides' argument that change is impossible?
The Prime Mover causes the motion of the cosmos by acting as…
Aristotle describes the Prime Mover's own activity as…
✍️ Open answer · AI-graded
What does Aristotle mean by saying that change is 'the actualization of a potentiality', and why does this matter for the problem Parmenides had raised? Explain using the distinctions between potentiality and actuality, matter and form, and substantial and accidental change.
What to cover: Explain potentiality (dunamis) and actuality (energeia/entelecheia), how hylomorphism frames an individual substance, and show precisely how the third option Aristotle introduces answers Parmenides' dilemma about coming-to-be.
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