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What sort of dualist is Plato regarded as?
metaphysical and epistemological
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What branch of physics might support a worldview similar to Platonic dualism?
quantum
[ "Idealism\n\nPlato's theory of forms or \"ideas\" describes ideal forms (for example the platonic solids in geometry or abstracts like Goodness and Justice), as universals existing independently of any particular instance. Arne Grøn calls this doctrine \"the classic example of a metaphysical idealism as a transcend...
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What sort of philosopher was Plotinus?
neoplatonist
[ "Idealism\n\nWith the neoplatonist Plotinus, wrote Nathaniel Alfred Boll; \"there even appears, probably for the first time in Western philosophy, idealism that had long been current in the East even at that time, for it taught... that the soul has made the world by stepping from eternity into time...\". Similarly,...
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According to Noiré, who was the first true Western idealist?
Plotinus
[ "Idealism\n\nWith the neoplatonist Plotinus, wrote Nathaniel Alfred Boll; \"there even appears, probably for the first time in Western philosophy, idealism that had long been current in the East even at that time, for it taught... that the soul has made the world by stepping from eternity into time...\". Similarly,...
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What issue did Schopenhauer discuss that Plotinus did not?
whether we know external objects
[ "Idealism\n\nWith the neoplatonist Plotinus, wrote Nathaniel Alfred Boll; \"there even appears, probably for the first time in Western philosophy, idealism that had long been current in the East even at that time, for it taught... that the soul has made the world by stepping from eternity into time...\". Similarly,...
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What did the Enneads believe might not have existence outside of the soul?
Time
[ "Idealism\n\nWith the neoplatonist Plotinus, wrote Nathaniel Alfred Boll; \"there even appears, probably for the first time in Western philosophy, idealism that had long been current in the East even at that time, for it taught... that the soul has made the world by stepping from eternity into time...\". Similarly,...
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Along with phenomenalism, what is another term for subjective idealism?
immaterialism
[ "Idealism\n\nSubjective Idealism (immaterialism or phenomenalism) describes a relationship between experience and the world in which objects are no more than collections or \"bundles\" of sense data in the perceiver. Proponents include Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne, an Anglo-Irish philosopher who advanced a theory he ...
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Of what see was Berkeley bishop?
Cloyne
[ "Idealism\n\nSubjective Idealism (immaterialism or phenomenalism) describes a relationship between experience and the world in which objects are no more than collections or \"bundles\" of sense data in the perceiver. Proponents include Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne, an Anglo-Irish philosopher who advanced a theory he ...
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What was Berkeley's ethnicity?
Anglo-Irish
[ "Idealism\n\nSubjective Idealism (immaterialism or phenomenalism) describes a relationship between experience and the world in which objects are no more than collections or \"bundles\" of sense data in the perceiver. Proponents include Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne, an Anglo-Irish philosopher who advanced a theory he ...
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What does esse est percipi mean?
to be is to be perceived
[ "Idealism\n\nSubjective Idealism (immaterialism or phenomenalism) describes a relationship between experience and the world in which objects are no more than collections or \"bundles\" of sense data in the perceiver. Proponents include Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne, an Anglo-Irish philosopher who advanced a theory he ...
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What did Berkeley consider things like matter to be?
abstractions
[ "Idealism\n\nSubjective Idealism (immaterialism or phenomenalism) describes a relationship between experience and the world in which objects are no more than collections or \"bundles\" of sense data in the perceiver. Proponents include Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne, an Anglo-Irish philosopher who advanced a theory he ...
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Who was known as the "Cambridge Platonist"?
John Norris
[ "Idealism\n\nArthur Collier published similar assertions though there seems to have been no influence between the two contemporary writers. The only knowable reality is the represented image of an external object. Matter as a cause of that image, is unthinkable and therefore nothing to us. An external world as abso...
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Who was notably influenced by John Norris?
Arthur Collier
[ "Idealism\n\nArthur Collier published similar assertions though there seems to have been no influence between the two contemporary writers. The only knowable reality is the represented image of an external object. Matter as a cause of that image, is unthinkable and therefore nothing to us. An external world as abso...
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When was An Essay Towards the Theory of the Ideal or Intelligible World written?
1701
[ "Idealism\n\nArthur Collier published similar assertions though there seems to have been no influence between the two contemporary writers. The only knowable reality is the represented image of an external object. Matter as a cause of that image, is unthinkable and therefore nothing to us. An external world as abso...
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What sort of reality did Collier believe was knowable?
represented image of an external object
[ "Idealism\n\nArthur Collier published similar assertions though there seems to have been no influence between the two contemporary writers. The only knowable reality is the represented image of an external object. Matter as a cause of that image, is unthinkable and therefore nothing to us. An external world as abso...
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Who coined the term "thing-in-itself"?
Immanuel Kant
[ "Idealism\n\nand proliferation of hyphenated entities such as \"thing-in-itself\" (Immanuel Kant), \"things-as-interacted-by-us\" (Arthur Fine), \"table-of-commonsense\" and \"table-of-physics\" (Sir Arthur Eddington) which are \"warning signs\" for conceptual idealism according to Musgrave because they allegedly d...
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Who invented the idea of a "table-of-commonsense"?
Sir Arthur Eddington
[ "Idealism\n\nand proliferation of hyphenated entities such as \"thing-in-itself\" (Immanuel Kant), \"things-as-interacted-by-us\" (Arthur Fine), \"table-of-commonsense\" and \"table-of-physics\" (Sir Arthur Eddington) which are \"warning signs\" for conceptual idealism according to Musgrave because they allegedly d...
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Who came up with the idea of "things-as-interacted-by-us"?
Arthur Fine
[ "Idealism\n\nand proliferation of hyphenated entities such as \"thing-in-itself\" (Immanuel Kant), \"things-as-interacted-by-us\" (Arthur Fine), \"table-of-commonsense\" and \"table-of-physics\" (Sir Arthur Eddington) which are \"warning signs\" for conceptual idealism according to Musgrave because they allegedly d...
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Who spoke of the "warning signs" of idealism?
Musgrave
[ "Idealism\n\nand proliferation of hyphenated entities such as \"thing-in-itself\" (Immanuel Kant), \"things-as-interacted-by-us\" (Arthur Fine), \"table-of-commonsense\" and \"table-of-physics\" (Sir Arthur Eddington) which are \"warning signs\" for conceptual idealism according to Musgrave because they allegedly d...
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What sort of philosopher was Richard Rorty?
Postmodernist
[ "Idealism\n\nand proliferation of hyphenated entities such as \"thing-in-itself\" (Immanuel Kant), \"things-as-interacted-by-us\" (Arthur Fine), \"table-of-commonsense\" and \"table-of-physics\" (Sir Arthur Eddington) which are \"warning signs\" for conceptual idealism according to Musgrave because they allegedly d...
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What sort of thinkers were Foster and Luce?
subjectivists
[ "Idealism\n\nA. A. Luce and John Foster are other subjectivists. Luce, in Sense without Matter (1954), attempts to bring Berkeley up to date by modernizing his vocabulary and putting the issues he faced in modern terms, and treats the Biblical account of matter and the psychology of perception and nature. Foster's ...
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What book was written by A.A. Luce?
Sense without Matter
[ "Idealism\n\nA. A. Luce and John Foster are other subjectivists. Luce, in Sense without Matter (1954), attempts to bring Berkeley up to date by modernizing his vocabulary and putting the issues he faced in modern terms, and treats the Biblical account of matter and the psychology of perception and nature. Foster's ...
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What year saw the publication of Sense without Matter?
1954
[ "Idealism\n\nA. A. Luce and John Foster are other subjectivists. Luce, in Sense without Matter (1954), attempts to bring Berkeley up to date by modernizing his vocabulary and putting the issues he faced in modern terms, and treats the Biblical account of matter and the psychology of perception and nature. Foster's ...
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Who wrote A World for Us: The Case for Phenomenalistic Idealism?
Foster
[ "Idealism\n\nA. A. Luce and John Foster are other subjectivists. Luce, in Sense without Matter (1954), attempts to bring Berkeley up to date by modernizing his vocabulary and putting the issues he faced in modern terms, and treats the Biblical account of matter and the psychology of perception and nature. Foster's ...
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Whose work is Sense without Matter regarded as updating?
Berkeley
[ "Idealism\n\nA. A. Luce and John Foster are other subjectivists. Luce, in Sense without Matter (1954), attempts to bring Berkeley up to date by modernizing his vocabulary and putting the issues he faced in modern terms, and treats the Biblical account of matter and the psychology of perception and nature. Foster's ...
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What school of thought did Berkeley belong to?
Subjective Idealism
[ "Idealism\n\nThe 2nd edition (1787) contained a Refutation of Idealism to distinguish his transcendental idealism from Descartes's Sceptical Idealism and Berkeley's anti-realist strain of Subjective Idealism. The section Paralogisms of Pure Reason is an implicit critique of Descartes' idealism. Kant says that it is...
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What sort of idealist was Descartes?
Sceptical
[ "Idealism\n\nThe 2nd edition (1787) contained a Refutation of Idealism to distinguish his transcendental idealism from Descartes's Sceptical Idealism and Berkeley's anti-realist strain of Subjective Idealism. The section Paralogisms of Pure Reason is an implicit critique of Descartes' idealism. Kant says that it is...
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In what section was Descartes criticized?
Paralogisms of Pure Reason
[ "Idealism\n\nThe 2nd edition (1787) contained a Refutation of Idealism to distinguish his transcendental idealism from Descartes's Sceptical Idealism and Berkeley's anti-realist strain of Subjective Idealism. The section Paralogisms of Pure Reason is an implicit critique of Descartes' idealism. Kant says that it is...
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In what edition was there a Refutation of Idealism?
2nd
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When was the second edition published?
1787
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Who wrote Parerga and Paralipomena?
Schopenhauer
[ "Idealism\n\nIn the first volume of his Parerga and Paralipomena, Schopenhauer wrote his \"Sketch of a History of the Doctrine of the Ideal and the Real\". He defined the ideal as being mental pictures that constitute subjective knowledge. The ideal, for him, is what can be attributed to our own minds. The images i...
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According to Schopenhauer, to what can the ideal be attributed?
our own minds
[ "Idealism\n\nIn the first volume of his Parerga and Paralipomena, Schopenhauer wrote his \"Sketch of a History of the Doctrine of the Ideal and the Real\". He defined the ideal as being mental pictures that constitute subjective knowledge. The ideal, for him, is what can be attributed to our own minds. The images i...
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What did Schopenhauer believe we were restricted to?
our own consciousness
[ "Idealism\n\nIn the first volume of his Parerga and Paralipomena, Schopenhauer wrote his \"Sketch of a History of the Doctrine of the Ideal and the Real\". He defined the ideal as being mental pictures that constitute subjective knowledge. The ideal, for him, is what can be attributed to our own minds. The images i...
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What did Schopenhauer believe were the only things we could know?
representations
[ "Idealism\n\nIn the first volume of his Parerga and Paralipomena, Schopenhauer wrote his \"Sketch of a History of the Doctrine of the Ideal and the Real\". He defined the ideal as being mental pictures that constitute subjective knowledge. The ideal, for him, is what can be attributed to our own minds. The images i...
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What type of knowledge did Schopenhauer believe the ideal to be?
subjective
[ "Idealism\n\nIn the first volume of his Parerga and Paralipomena, Schopenhauer wrote his \"Sketch of a History of the Doctrine of the Ideal and the Real\". He defined the ideal as being mental pictures that constitute subjective knowledge. The ideal, for him, is what can be attributed to our own minds. The images i...
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Who censured Kant for his agnostic tautology?
Friedrich Nietzsche
[ "Idealism\n\nFriedrich Nietzsche argued that Kant commits an agnostic tautology and does not offer a satisfactory answer as to the source of a philosophical right to such-or-other metaphysical claims; he ridicules his pride in tackling \"the most difficult thing that could ever be undertaken on behalf of metaphysic...
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Along with Schopenhauer, whose idealism did Nietzsche attack?
Descartes
[ "Idealism\n\nFriedrich Nietzsche argued that Kant commits an agnostic tautology and does not offer a satisfactory answer as to the source of a philosophical right to such-or-other metaphysical claims; he ridicules his pride in tackling \"the most difficult thing that could ever be undertaken on behalf of metaphysic...
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Nietzsche's attack on Schopenhauer used an argument similar to Kant's attack on who?
Descartes
[ "Idealism\n\nFriedrich Nietzsche argued that Kant commits an agnostic tautology and does not offer a satisfactory answer as to the source of a philosophical right to such-or-other metaphysical claims; he ridicules his pride in tackling \"the most difficult thing that could ever be undertaken on behalf of metaphysic...
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According to Hegel, what sort of idealist was Fichte?
transcendental
[ "Idealism\n\nAbsolute idealism is G. W. F. Hegel's account of how existence is comprehensible as an all-inclusive whole. Hegel called his philosophy \"absolute\" idealism in contrast to the \"subjective idealism\" of Berkeley and the \"transcendental idealism\" of Kant and Fichte, which were not based on a critique...
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Who did Hegel see as a subjective idealist?
Berkeley
[ "Idealism\n\nAbsolute idealism is G. W. F. Hegel's account of how existence is comprehensible as an all-inclusive whole. Hegel called his philosophy \"absolute\" idealism in contrast to the \"subjective idealism\" of Berkeley and the \"transcendental idealism\" of Kant and Fichte, which were not based on a critique...
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What sort of idealist did Hegel define himself as?
Absolute
[ "Idealism\n\nAbsolute idealism is G. W. F. Hegel's account of how existence is comprehensible as an all-inclusive whole. Hegel called his philosophy \"absolute\" idealism in contrast to the \"subjective idealism\" of Berkeley and the \"transcendental idealism\" of Kant and Fichte, which were not based on a critique...
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How did Hegel believe historical reality to be knowable to a philosopher?
exercise of reason and intellect
[ "Idealism\n\nAbsolute idealism is G. W. F. Hegel's account of how existence is comprehensible as an all-inclusive whole. Hegel called his philosophy \"absolute\" idealism in contrast to the \"subjective idealism\" of Berkeley and the \"transcendental idealism\" of Kant and Fichte, which were not based on a critique...
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When was Science of Logic written?
1812–1814
[ "Idealism\n\nIn his Science of Logic (1812–1814) Hegel argues that finite qualities are not fully \"real\" because they depend on other finite qualities to determine them. Qualitative infinity, on the other hand, would be more self-determining and hence more fully real. Similarly finite natural things are less \"re...
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Who was the author of Science of Logic?
Hegel
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Why did Hegel believe natural things are less real than spiritual things?
less self-determining
[ "Idealism\n\nIn his Science of Logic (1812–1814) Hegel argues that finite qualities are not fully \"real\" because they depend on other finite qualities to determine them. Qualitative infinity, on the other hand, would be more self-determining and hence more fully real. Similarly finite natural things are less \"re...
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Along with God and morally responsible people, what is an example of a spiritual thing to Hegel?
ethical communities
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What is an example of a school of thought Hegel believed to be wrong?
materialism
[ "Idealism\n\nIn his Science of Logic (1812–1814) Hegel argues that finite qualities are not fully \"real\" because they depend on other finite qualities to determine them. Qualitative infinity, on the other hand, would be more self-determining and hence more fully real. Similarly finite natural things are less \"re...
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In Hegel's thought, what inner reality is possessed by both subject and object?
Spirit
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What is another term for Hegel's "subject"?
any human observer
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What does Hegel mean by "object"?
any external entity
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What does Spirit turn into when a person arrives at self-realization?
Absolute Spirit
[ "Idealism\n\nHegel certainly intends to preserve what he takes to be true of German idealism, in particular Kant's insistence that ethical reason can and does go beyond finite inclinations. For Hegel there must be some identity of thought and being for the \"subject\" (any human observer)) to be able to know any ob...
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Who did Tucker argue that Hegel's philosophy involved the worship of?
self
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Who was a notable critic of Hegel?
Kierkegaard
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For whom did Kierkegaard argue reality cannot be a system?
human
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According to Kierkegaard, why can't reality be a system for human beings?
humans are incomplete
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Even though Kierkegaard does not believe in the possibility of an existential system of reality, what sort of system can exist?
logical
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Who wrote Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences?
Hegel
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When was Phenomenology of Spirit published?
1807
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What trait did Climacus believe that Hegel suppressed?
individuality
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Whose will did Hegel believe should prevail over that of the individual?
State
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What conception of right and wrong did Climacus believe Hegel endorsed?
bourgeois
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What sort of reality did Hegel perceive God's mind to be?
ultimate
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Along with Hegel, who also argued for human incompleteness?
Kierkegaard
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According to Hegel, what form does thought necessarily take?
abstraction
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Why does Hegel believe we cannot know God?
we are finite beings
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If something transcends time, what does it, according to Hegel, also transcend?
human understanding
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Who wrote The Refutation of Idealism?
Moore
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In his rejection of idealism, whose thought did Moore attack?
Bradley
[ "Idealism\n\nBradley was the apparent target of G. E. Moore's radical rejection of idealism. Moore claimed that Bradley did not understand the statement that something is real. We know for certain, through common sense and prephilosophical beliefs, that some things are real, whether they are objects of thought or n...
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Who originated the saying 'esse est percipi'?
Berkeley
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Who is a notable exponent of pluralistic idealism?
Gottfried Leibniz
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What is the term for the type of idealism preached by Leibniz?
Panpsychism
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What did Leibniz believe the universe is fundamentally composed of?
monads
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Who was a notable disciple of Leibniz?
James Ward
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What does Ward see as the purpose of interaction between monads?
self- betterment
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Who was an exponent of so-called "Boston Personalism"?
Bowne
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What was the term given to the personal idealism of Howison?
California Personalism
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Who is a notable realistic personal theist?
Saint Thomas Aquinas
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What issue do both Aquinas and Brightman discuss?
dependence upon an infinite personal God
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What sort of freedom did Howison believe was incompatible with materialism?
moral
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With what university is J.M.E. McTaggart affiliated?
Cambridge
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In what year was The Nature of Existence published?
1927
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According to McTaggart, what are the only things that have real existence?
minds
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How does McTaggart believe minds relate to one another?
love
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What does McTaggart believe space and time to be?
unreal
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What was the name of the philosophy preached by Thomas Davidson?
apeirotheism
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What type of idealism was Thomas Davidson's philosophy?
pluralistic
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According to Davidson, how many gods are there?
infinite
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By whose philosophy was Davidson influenced?
Aristotle
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What did Davidson believe the God of Aristotle is synonymous with?
rational thought
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Among what twentieth century scientists was idealism popular?
physicists
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Along with quantum physics generally, what scientific doctrine caused some physicists to embrace idealism?
relativity
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In what year was the second edition of The Grammar of Science published?
1900
[ "Idealism\n\nIdealist notions took a strong hold among physicists of the early 20th century confronted with the paradoxes of quantum physics and the theory of relativity. In The Grammar of Science, Preface to the 2nd Edition, 1900, Karl Pearson wrote, \"There are many signs that a sound idealism is surely replacing...
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What did Pearson claim that science classifies?
contents of the mind
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Who is claimed to have been influenced by The Grammar of Science?
Einstein
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How do receive information from the physical world?
messages transmitted along the nerves to the seat of consciousness
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What type of consciousness is similar but not identical to consciousness itself?
subconsciousness
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What is the nature of the fundamental character of reality?
mental
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According to the author, who would have particular trouble in accepting that reality is fundamentally mental?
physicist
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What is the main thing that we experience?
mind
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What was Czech formerly known as?
Bohemian
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