Multiple choice

Rearrange the following in chronological decending order (i) Aristotle (ii) Socrates (iii) Confucius (iv) Plato

  1. (i), (iv), (ii), (iii)

  2. (iii), (iv), (ii), (i)

  3. (ii), (iv), (i), (iii)

  4. (iv), (ii), (i), (iii)
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Confucius lived roughly from 551 to 479 BCE. Socrates lived from 470 to 399 BCE. Plato lived from 427 to 348 BCE. Aristotle lived from 384 to 322 BCE. In descending chronological order of their birth or general era, the sequence places earlier thinkers last or follows the specified ordering convention requested; specifically, sorting by approximate birth dates in descending order yields (i) Aristotle, (iv) Plato, (ii) Socrates, (iii) Confucius.

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