Imagination Flashcards

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BLANK came up with an ontology – that is, a system of being – that was divided into three classes: BLANK

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Meinong, absistence, subsistence, and existence.

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BLANK- every possible object that you can think of absists. If you can think about it, it has absistence.

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Absistence

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BLANK- things like numbers and theorems, that dont manifest a physical existence but they also dont contain any sort of impossibility.

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Subsistence

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BLANK- objects that are actually here in the physical world.

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Existence

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The domain in which we have a conversation, is known as a BLANK.

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universe of discourse

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Like, in the universe of discourse that is basketball, taking a few steps with a ball in your hand is called traveling, and is illegal. But in the universe of discourse called football, taking steps with a ball in your hand is not called traveling and is perfectly legal.

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YES

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BLANK – the pleasure you get from sensory experience and sensory emotion

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Aesthetic enjoyment

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Some people, like 19th-century Russian novelist BLANK, understood art primarily in terms of the artist, as an expression of the ineffable emotions of the person who created it.

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Leo Tolstoy

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BLANKsaid that, just as we have a sense of smell and sight and hearing, we also have a sense of aesthetic taste – an ability to detect and evaluate the aesthetic properties of an object.

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Hume

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At a museum in Denmark in 2000, artist BLANK debuted a work of art that involved live goldfish swimming around in vessels full of water.

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Marco Evaristti

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BLANK- anti-art: He believed that art plays to our emotions rather than to our reason.

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Plato

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20th century British philosopher BLANK acknowledged that art is frequently used as an escape from life – a simple amusement, a distraction.

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R.G. Collingwood

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BLANK- helps the audience escape from reality, he said – diving into a no-stakes fictional world after a stressful day.

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Amusement art

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BLANK- the stuff that helps the audience learn how better to interact with this world’s reality.
A great example of this is Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

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Magic art

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BLANK– a way to disappear into a fantasy where your troubles can be addressed with the flick of a wand.

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Escapism

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BLANK does a beautiful job of resolving a little conundrum in aesthetics that’s known as the Problem of Tragedy. This is the weird puzzle of why people voluntarily walk into a theatre, clutching a box of tissues, fully prepared to bawl their eyes out for two hours, having paid for the privilege.

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Aristotle’s theory of catharsis

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BLANK- or theparadoxof emotional response tofiction, is a philosophical dilemma that questions how people can experience strong emotions tofictionalthings.

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TheParadox of Fiction

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BLANK- maintain that art and morality are entirely separate. So if something is done in the name of art, it’s basically immune from moral scrutiny.

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Autonomists

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BLANK- who argue that morality and art are interconnected, so any moral stain connected with a work makes a work aesthetically flawed.

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Aesthetic moralists