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Metaphysics
Epistemology
Epistemology Continued
Aesthetics
Logic
100
A theory that states that reality is made of up only matter.
What is materialism?
100
Justified true belief.
What is Plato's definition of knowledge?
100
The belief that knowledge is formed through our sense impressions.
What is empiricism?
100
He said that art should serve society.
Who is Lao Tsu?
100
A statement that can be considered either true of false.
What is a proposition?
200
A theory that states that reality is made up of two different kinds of substances.
What is dualism?
200
This phrase refers to what Hume thought of as "contingent propositions".
What are "matters of fact"?
200
He said: "our mind is like a blank slate."
Who is John Locke?
200
He siad that art is a way to unify humanity through sharing feelings and emotions.
Who is Leo Tolstoy?
200
This Law of Logic states that A is A.
What is the Law of Identity?
300
A group of First Nation thinkers from Ontario whose metaphysics and spiritual beliefs are strongly connects to the land.
Who are the Haudenosaunee?
300
The belief that knowledge is what works for us on a daily basis.
What is pragmatism?
300
The theory that states that knowledge is dependent on the terminology that we use.
What is the language theory.
300
This theory stats that art is whatever uses the formal elements and principles of design to communicate visually.
What is formalism?
300
This law states that a proposition can not be true and false at the same time
What is the Law of Non-Contradiction?
400
He wrote the Tao Te Ching, the founding book of Taoism.
Who Lao Tzu?
400
He believed that both rationalism and empiricism had part of the answer right.
Who is Kant?
400
He is one of the main supporters of the language theory.
Who is Michel Foucault?
400
Andy Warhol's "Brillo Soap Pads" and the work of Mr. Brainwash, are good examples of this theory of art.
What is the institutional theory of art?
400
This law states that a proposition is either true or false- there is no middle ground.
What is the Law of the Excluded Middle?
500
The Buddhist thinker Nagarjuna summed up his metaphysics with this word.
What is emptiness?
500
The practice of questioning the reliability of our knowledge.
What is skepticism?
500
He said: "the only thing I know is that I don't know".
Who is Socrates?
500
He believed in art for art's sake and that good art copied nature.
Who is Aristotle?
500
An argument where the conclusion necessarily follows from the premises.
What is a valid deductive argument?