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Paul Danahar
Who stated that Chinese people could access the BBC news website after years of not being able to?
1,300
How many people gathered in protest at these two buildings?
Paul Danahar
Who commented that Chinese people can look at the BBC news site for the first time?
Tibet
Where is BBC banned from reporting?
People's Daily
Who published "Overseas Chinese rally against biased media coverage" on April 20?
People's Daily
Which publication published a report about the Chinese rallying against media bias?
an anti-CNN website
What was the Chinese government reported running on April 4?
a Beijing citizen.
Who supposedly created the site?
a Beijing citizen.
Who takes credit for creating the site?
foreign correspondents
Who felt that the government was involved in the website?
30
How many attendants accompanied the flame during it's travels?
August 2007
When were the 30 team members sworn in?
matching blue tracksuits
What were their official team outfits?
Second Right Brother
Which team member has his own fan following?
30
How many attendants were used from the People's Armed Police for the flame's entire journey?
August 2007
When were these 30 sworn in?
blue tracksuits
What did these 30 attendants wear?
Second Right Brother
What is the attendant who has a large fan base called?
Carrefour
Which French company was boycotted?
LVMH Group
Carrefour was boycotted because of which shareholder?
the Dalai Lama
Who was the LVMH Group accused of supporting?
the French flag
What was burned during these boycotts?
LVMH Group
Who was accused of helping the Dalai Lama?
anti-Chinese racism.
Boycotters accused France of being pro-seccessionist and what?
anti-Japanese protests
The Chinese government tried to tamper the boycott, trying to avoid a similar outcome to which protests in 2005?
People's Daily
Which newspaper urged citizens to protest peacefully?
Sohu.com
Which website had mentions of the Carrefour boycott removed by the government?
May 1
When did protests in front of Carrefour's stores occur in China?
the anti-Japanese protests in 2005.
The Chinese government did not want a repeat of what protests?
People's Daily
Which newspaper asked the Chinese people to protest peacefully?
the Chinese government
Who removed Carrefour boycott comments from some websites?
May 1.
What day did protests occur in front of Carrefour stores?
Shoichi Washizawa
Who was the mayor of Nagano?
great nuisance
How did Washizawa refer to the city having the torch relay?
a major Buddhist temple
What was vandalized after a relay event was cancelled there?
Shoichi Washizawa
Who was the mayor of Nagano?
great nuisance
What did he call the opportunity for Nagano to host the torch event?
a major Buddhist temple
Where was the inital opening ceremony to be held in Nagano?
lanterns.
In what is the torch flame kept lit when the torch must be off?
during protests
The torch is put out at night, on aircraft, during storms and what else?
Hong Kong legislator
Who was Michael Mak Kwok-fung?
Jin Jing
Which athlete did the official website call an angel?
Western media
Which media outlets gave Jin Jing little notice?
Two
How many additional teams will help with the Mainland China route?
40
How many members are on each of these two teams?
the book popularized modern mathematical logic and drew important connections between logic, epistemology, and metaphysics
Despite its imperfection, what are now considered valuable achievements of Principia Mathematica?
mixed
What is the general consensus of the axioms and inference rules declared in Principia Mathematica?
Kurt Gödel
Who discovered the incompleteness theorem of 1931?
for any set of axioms and inference rules proposed to encapsulate mathematics, there would in fact be some truths of mathematics which could not be deduced
What did the incompleteness theorem of 1931 indicate regarding Principia Mathematica?
Gödel could not have come to this conclusion without Whitehead and Russell's book
Why was Gödels finding ironic?
1931
When was Kurt Godel's incompleteness theorem?
some truths of mathematics which could not be deduced from them
What did Kurt Godel's theorem demonstrate about axioms and the inference rules?
Principia Mathematica
Godel couldn't have come to his conclusion without what book?
metaphysics
Besides logic and epistemology, what else did Principia Mathematica connect?
The essay from which Aims of Education derived its name was delivered as an address in 1916
What is the origin of the title of the book?
ideas that are disconnected scraps of information, with no application to real life or culture
How did Whitehead define "inert ideas"?
"education with inert ideas is not only useless: it is, above all things, harmful."
What was Whitehead's criticism of the use of inert ideas in education?
1929
When was "The Aims of Education and Other Essays" published?
between 1912 and 1927
During what periods of time were the essays and address contained in "The Aims of Education and Other Essays" composed?
1929
What year was The Aims of Education and Other Essays published?
numerous essays and addresses
What was the Aims of Education and Other Essays comprised of?
inert ideas
What teaching did Whitehead caution against teaching?
Whitehead advocated teaching a relatively few important concepts
What did Whitehead believe regarding the variety of subjects in education?
important concepts that the student could organically link to many different areas of knowledge, discovering their application in actual life
How did Whitehead propose that students would expand their knowledge beyond the subjects taught in school?
For Whitehead, education should be the exact opposite of the multidisciplinary, value-free school model
What was Whitehead's general opinion of what the school model should be?
it should be transdisciplinary, and laden with values and general principles that provide students with a bedrock of wisdom
What was Whitehead's opinion on the inclusion of values and general principles in education?
a relatively few important concepts
Whitehead's education style was to teach what?
different areas of knowledge, discovering their application in actual life.
What should Whitehead's students organically link due to his teaching methods?
value-free school model
Whitehead believed education should be the opposite of what?
he never had any formal training in philosophy beyond his undergraduate education
What was the extent of Whitehead's education in philosophy?
"This further question lands us in the ocean of metaphysic, onto which my profound ignorance of that science forbids me to enter."
What was Whitehead's opinion of his own knowledge of metaphysics in that correspondence?
in later life Whitehead would become one of the 20th century's foremost metaphysicians
How did Whitehead eventually become regarded in the field of metaphysics?
Bertrand Russell
With what friend and former student did Whitehead correspond regarding the goals of science?
undergraduate
What is the highest Whitehead was trained in philosophy?
friend and former student
What is the relationship between Whitehead and Russell?
rank amateur
What did Whitehead consider himself as a philosopher?
one of the 20th century's foremost metaphysicians.
What was Whitehead considered as a metaphysician?
"Every scientific man in order to preserve his reputation has to say he dislikes metaphysics. What he means is he dislikes having his metaphysics criticized."
What quotation of Whitehead's was noted by a student in 1927?
such assumptions are not easily seen precisely because they remain unexamined and unquestioned
What was Whitehead's opinion of basic assumptions in metaphysics?
people need to continually re-imagine their basic assumptions about how the universe works if philosophy and science are to make any real progress
What did Whitehead feel was necessary regarding basic assumptions in metaphysics?
Whitehead regarded metaphysical investigations as essential to both good science and good philosophy
What was Whitehead's opinion of metaphysical investigations?
make metaphysical assumptions about how the universe works
What do philosophers do, in Whitehead's view?
they remain unexamined and unquestioned
Assumptions of how the universe works are difficult to see precisely because of what?
basic assumptions about how the universe works
What did Whitehead ask people to reimagine in order for philosophy to make progress?
metaphysical investigations
What did Whitehead regard as essential to good science and good philosophy?
reality is fundamentally constructed of bits of matter that exist totally independently of one another
What Cartesian concept did Whitehead believe to be erroneous?
event-based or "process" ontology in which events are primary and are fundamentally interrelated and dependent on one another
What theory did Whitehead prefer to the Cartesian concept?
He used the term "experience" very broadly, so that even inanimate processes such as electron collisions are said to manifest some degree of experience
How did whitehead define "experience"?
two different kinds of real existence, either exclusively material or else exclusively mental
How did Descartes' distinguish types of existence?
"philosophy of organism"
How did Whitehead identify his system of metaphysics?
Cartesian idea
What idea states that reality is fundamentally constructed of bits of matter?
an event-based or "process" ontology
Whitehead rejected the Cartesian idea in favor of what?
interrelated and dependent
Whitehead believed instead of matter existing independently of each other, it did what?
experiential
Whitehead believed that reality should be regarded as what?
process philosophy
Whitehead's system as "philosophy of organism" became widely known as what term?
By assuming that enduring objects are the most real and fundamental things in the universe, materialists have mistaken the abstract for the concrete
How did Whitehead define the "fallacy of misplaced concreteness"?
"quality", "matter", and "form"
What basic concepts did Whitehead believe were questionable?
These "classical" concepts fail to adequately account for change, and overlook the active and experiential nature of the most basic elements of the world.
Why did he believe those concepts were inaccurate?
a continuum of overlapping events
How did Whitehead classify what is usually seen as an individual person?
a "society" of events
How did Whitehead refer to the combination of a person's separate experiences?