MIDTERM EXAM – CATHRINA CARISSA G.

SOTELO

1. Perfect knowledge is Common Sense. It is given/existent. Common Sense is the spontaneous

genuine certainties arising in the mind proceeding from natural perceptions, consent, instinct,
and natural sense of the intellect. Common Sense is correct thinking by way of Logic and Logic is
the study of correct thinking.
2. Yes. Thought can exist without language. Whenever you are playing sports, driving a car, doing
household chores, or performing any one of countless other inherently non-verbal tasks, you are
incontrovertibly thinking, regardless of whether you are talking to yourself or not.
3. Universals are a class of mind-independent entities, usually contrasted with
individuals/particulars, postulated to the ground, and explain relations of qualitative identity and
resemblance among individuals. Individuals are said to be similar by virtue of sharing universals.
An apple and a ruby are both red, for example, and their common redness results from sharing a
universal. If they are both red at the same time, the universal, red, must be in two places at
once. This makes universals quite different from individuals, and it makes them controversial.

Universality or absolutism is the idea that universal facts exist and can be progressively
discovered, as opposed to relativism, which asserts that all facts are merely relative to one's
perspective.
Universality consists of the quality or state of being universal which means existing everywhere
or involving everyone.
4. Corporeal substance is the substance of which any physical object consists or is composed.
These are things that have a body (physical forms), whether animate or inanimate and can be
felt or touched. It can be both movable and immovable.
Ex. Land-immovable corporeal body Money-movable corporeal body

Hylomorphism- a metaphysical view according to which every physical object is a compound of

matter and form.
Ex.
1. The soul of a human being is the form or structure of the human body or the human matter.
2. A statue is a compound of its constituent bronze and its perceptible shape.

5. Yes. The pure act is an expression used in scholastic philosophy and theology to describe the
absolute or pure perfection of God, in contrast with the limited or mixed perfection of creatures.

According to NASA, time travel is possible, just not in the way you might expect. Although many
people are fascinated by the idea of changing the past or seeing the future before it's due, no
person has ever demonstrated the kind of back-and-forth time travel seen in science fiction or
proposed a method of sending a person through significant periods of time that wouldn't
destroy them on the way.

There are known to be solutions to the equations of general relativity that describe spacetimes
that contain closed time-like curves, such as Gödel spacetime, but the physical plausibility of these
solutions is uncertain.
Many in the scientific community believe that backward time travel is highly unlikely.