PHIL 1361 TEST 2 REVIEW EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
What is the focus of conceptual art? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The idea.
Which type of art can be realized across media? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Conceptual art.
Are the Mona Lisa and David self-reflective artworks? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅No.
Is a paper ball a self-reflective artwork? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Yes.
What type of properties of a thing are sensory properties that essentially involve an evaluative notion? -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Aesthetic properties
What is the queen of all aesthetic properties? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅beauty
When we talk about aesthetics, almost everything has to do with ___________. - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅beauty
Is beauty evaluative? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Yes.
Is beautiful an aesthetic property term? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Yes.
What is an aesthetic property? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅sensory properties that essentially involve an
evaluative notion
_______________ argument concerns the relationships between a thing's aesthetic properties and its
non-aesthetic ones. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅metaphysical
_______________ argument concerns what we can know about a work's aesthetic properties under
certain conditions, and what we cannot. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅epistemological
,Is the following question metaphysical or epistemological:
What makes someone beautiful? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅metaphysical
Is the following question metaphysical or epistemological:
How do we know beauty when we see it? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅epistemological
Reducing "X is beautiful" to "X is beautiful for me" describes what type of view? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Relativism
There cannot be disagreement because whatever he says is true for him & your evaluation holds no
weight.
A) realist
B) relativist
C) idealist
D) ideal judge - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅B
Roger Scruton suggests we have to ____________ a work to attribute aesthetic qualities to it.
A) know
B) see
C) experience
D) judge - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅C
Is the following statement Relativism, Idealism, or Realism?
The truth of judgments of beauty are relative to the judger's mental state. - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Relativism
, Is the following statement Relativism, Idealism, or Realism?
The truth of judgements of beauty are relative to the judgments of some idealized judge. - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Idealism
Is the following statement Relativism, Idealism, or Realism?
The truth of judgments of beauty are real world matters of fact independent of judger's mental states. -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Realism
Is the following statement Relativism, Idealism, or Realism?
I make it true that something is beautiful because I think it so. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Relativism
How do you know beauty when we see it if we are a realist?
A) When we see it in the thing. When we have the appropriate responses to beauty.
B) I make it true that something is beautiful because I think it so.
C) What makes the judgment true is an idealized judge. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A
Is the following statement Relativism, Idealism, or Realism?
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Relativism
The problem with ____________ is that we cant have any disagreement about beauty because we are
both correct. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Relativism
If you are inclined to ____________ then beauty is not in the eye of the beholder but in the world, and
it's our job to detect it. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Realism
Shiny is usually a(n) ____________ property but could be a(n) ____________ property in an evaluative
context like if we see a theatre performance and think an actor's face is shiny. - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅non-aesthetic,
aesthetic
What is the focus of conceptual art? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The idea.
Which type of art can be realized across media? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Conceptual art.
Are the Mona Lisa and David self-reflective artworks? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅No.
Is a paper ball a self-reflective artwork? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Yes.
What type of properties of a thing are sensory properties that essentially involve an evaluative notion? -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Aesthetic properties
What is the queen of all aesthetic properties? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅beauty
When we talk about aesthetics, almost everything has to do with ___________. - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅beauty
Is beauty evaluative? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Yes.
Is beautiful an aesthetic property term? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Yes.
What is an aesthetic property? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅sensory properties that essentially involve an
evaluative notion
_______________ argument concerns the relationships between a thing's aesthetic properties and its
non-aesthetic ones. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅metaphysical
_______________ argument concerns what we can know about a work's aesthetic properties under
certain conditions, and what we cannot. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅epistemological
,Is the following question metaphysical or epistemological:
What makes someone beautiful? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅metaphysical
Is the following question metaphysical or epistemological:
How do we know beauty when we see it? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅epistemological
Reducing "X is beautiful" to "X is beautiful for me" describes what type of view? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Relativism
There cannot be disagreement because whatever he says is true for him & your evaluation holds no
weight.
A) realist
B) relativist
C) idealist
D) ideal judge - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅B
Roger Scruton suggests we have to ____________ a work to attribute aesthetic qualities to it.
A) know
B) see
C) experience
D) judge - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅C
Is the following statement Relativism, Idealism, or Realism?
The truth of judgments of beauty are relative to the judger's mental state. - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Relativism
, Is the following statement Relativism, Idealism, or Realism?
The truth of judgements of beauty are relative to the judgments of some idealized judge. - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Idealism
Is the following statement Relativism, Idealism, or Realism?
The truth of judgments of beauty are real world matters of fact independent of judger's mental states. -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Realism
Is the following statement Relativism, Idealism, or Realism?
I make it true that something is beautiful because I think it so. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Relativism
How do you know beauty when we see it if we are a realist?
A) When we see it in the thing. When we have the appropriate responses to beauty.
B) I make it true that something is beautiful because I think it so.
C) What makes the judgment true is an idealized judge. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A
Is the following statement Relativism, Idealism, or Realism?
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Relativism
The problem with ____________ is that we cant have any disagreement about beauty because we are
both correct. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Relativism
If you are inclined to ____________ then beauty is not in the eye of the beholder but in the world, and
it's our job to detect it. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Realism
Shiny is usually a(n) ____________ property but could be a(n) ____________ property in an evaluative
context like if we see a theatre performance and think an actor's face is shiny. - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅non-aesthetic,
aesthetic
