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