Challenge 2

Question 0

Cosmopolitan

Answer 0

Familiar with and at ease in many different cultures or countries.

Containing people of different types, influenced by difference cultures.

Having or showing a wide experience of people and things from many different cultures.

Question 1

Agency

Answer 1

The capacity, power or authority of a person to act in the world.

The capacity, power or authority for a person to make choices.

Question 2

Ontology

Answer 2

The nature of existence or being.

Question 3

Epistemology

Answer 3

A theory of knowledge, especially the distinction between justified belief and opinion.

Question 4

Idealism

Answer 4

Any doctrine holding that reality is fundamentally mental in nature.

To be, is to be perceived.

Question 5

Dualism

Answer 5

A theory or system of thought that regards a domain of reality in terms of two independent principles.

Mind & Matter
Good & Evil

Question 6

Monism

Answer 6

A theory or doctrine that denies the existence of a distinction or duality in a particular sphere, such as that between matter and mind, or God and the world.

Question 7

Pluralism

Answer 7

A theory or system that recognizes more than one ultimate principle.

Question 8

Banal

Answer 8

commonplace, trivial

Question 9

Bi-polar

Answer 9

having two opposite or contradictory ideas

Question 10

Bifurcate

Answer 10

to divide into two parts or branches

Question 11

Binary

Answer 11

characterized by or consisting of two parts or components

Question 12

Teleology

Answer 12

The theory that events are meant to achieve a purpose and happen because of that purpose.

“Everything happens for a reason.”

Question 13

Tautology

Answer 13

a statement that is true by virtue of its logical form

Question 14

Felicity

Answer 14

the ability to find appropriate expression for one’s thoughts