Exam 2: The Pre-Socratics and the Sophists

Among other things, Parmenides is famous for his systematic __________.

The Sophists prefer __________ explanations of phenomena.

Cultural relativism implies that social reformers like Martin Luther King Jr. are wrong about the possibility of moral progress.

Parmenides asserts, "All things are one."

Sophists were __________.

Parmenides is a pluralist who holds that there are multiple things in the universe.

Thales posits that the Earth floats on water like a raft.

Zeno supports __________ view with a number of paradoxes.

According to the Sophists, __________ are determined neither by the gods nor nature.

__________ is the central idea of Heraclitus.