The phrase John Cage used in Credo to substitute for music, if "music" was to be reserved for classical music.
What is "organization of sound"
100
The belief in the existence of a god or gods.
What is theism?
100
Ludwig Wittgenstein's idea about definition, where all members of a definable group have something in common even if they don't all have the SAME thing in common.
What is family resemblance theory.
100
Author of "What is art", he claimed that art was defined by the transmission of emotion from one person to another.
Who is Leo Tolstoy
100
The philosophical branch dealing with questions about knowledge.
What is epistemology.
200
The "silent" piece of music John Cage composed.
What is 4'33"
200
The conundrum that the world is evil and an omniscient, omnipotent, and omnibenevolent God exists.
What is the problem of evil.
200
Bertrand Russell would classify knowledge about yourself gained through introspection as knowledge by ________.
What is acquaintance.
200
20th century British philosopher who came up with the idea of knowledge by acquaintance and knowledge by description.
Who is Bertrand Russell.
200
A philosophy-of-language term for a symbol or sound by which a concept or object is named.
What is a signifier.
300
The relation between features of a work of art that produces a particular aesthetic emotion in the listener--this idea was developed by Clive Bell.
What is significant form
300
The argument by an early modern French philosopher that it's more advantageous to believe in God (and lets us avoid the possibility of eternal torment).
What is Pascal's Wager?
300
If you know: the population of Boston, the size of Boston in square miles, the place to get a parking permit in Boston, and the names of all the streets in Boston--but you've never been to Boston--what kind of knowledge do you have of Boston?
What is propositional knowledge.
300
Medieval philosopher who made an important "a posteriori" argument about the existence of God.
Who is Thomas Aquinas.
300
If a concept's reality and existence are determined by people's collective invention, use, and understanding of it, it is a _________ ________ (two words).
What is a social construct.
400
The idea that "art" means artefacts that the art world considers to be art.
What is the institutional theory of art
400
The proof of God's existence presented by Anselm in the Proslogium, arguing that God is the greatest possible being that can be conceived and therefore must exist.
What is the ontological argument
400
The view that we can never know anything for certain, that there is some ground to doubt even our most fundamental beliefs about the world.
What is skepticism.
400
Author of a song describing the story of how a group of clouds invented a god.
Who is Kurt Elling?
400
The idea that human beings have the unconstrained ability to choose what they do.
What is free will.
500
Oscar Wilde said, "the artist is the creator of _______"
What are "beautiful things".
500
The group of thinkers identified in the Nozick article on the problem of evil who believe that our god is not the top divinity there is.
Who are the Gnostics.
500
The person who wrote "they know everything, what will be, what was/no mountain is still miraculous."
Who is Rainer Maria Rilke.
500
Philosopher associated with the "linguistic turn", who claimed that language shapes our reality and the reality of a concept cannot exist independently of the language naming that concept.
Who is Ferdinand de Saussure
500
Impressions of the external world gained by information from sight, sound, taste, touch, smell, etc.