Which of the Following Is an Accurate Comparison of Plato

question 19

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is an accurate comparison of Plato and Aristotle?

• A) Plato was concerned with analyzing politics and governance; Aristotle was only concerned with poetry and science.
• B) Aristotle believed that the path to knowledge was through close study of things in the natural world to discover underlying patterns, but Plato thought that things in the natural world were merely flawed copies of ideal forms in a thought world.
• C) Aristotle analyzed more than 150 city-states; Plato based his research only on Sparta.
• D) Plato believed that water was the substance from which all other things were derived, while Aristotle believed that substances were composed of small, indivisible particles called atoma.

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