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question 52

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Answer the following questions:
-sensationalism

• A)An early modern term for the study of the nature of the universe, its purpose, and how it functioned; it encompassed what we would call "science" today.
• B)A theory of inductive reasoning that calls for acquiring evidence through observation and experimentation rather than deductive reason and speculation.
• C)The idea that the sun, not the earth, was the center of the universe.
• D)The idea that all human ideas and thoughts are produced as a result of sensory impressions.
• E)Newton's law that all objects are attracted to one another and that the force of attraction is proportional to the objects' quantity of matter and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them.
• F)A group of French intellectuals who proclaimed that they were bringing the light of knowledge to their fellow humans in the Age of Enlightenment.
• G)A popular style in Europe in the eighteenth century, known for its soft pastels, ornate interiors, sentimental portraits, and starry-eyed lovers protected by hovering cupids.
• H)Term coined by historians to describe the rule of eighteenth-century monarchs who, without renouncing their own absolute authority, adopted Enlightenment ideals of rationalism, progress, and tolerance.
• I)Descartes's view that all of reality could ultimately be reduced to mind and matter.
• J)The Jewish Enlightenment of the second half of the eighteenth century, led by the Prussian philosopher Moses Mendelssohn.
• K)A law formulated by Galileo that states that motion, not rest, is the natural state of an object, and that an object continues in motion forever unless stopped by some external force.
• L)The belief in a distant, noninterventionist deity; common among Enlightenment thinkers.
• M)View that monarchy was the best form of government, that all elements of society should serve the monarch, and that, in turn, the state should use its resources and authority to increase the public good.
• N)An idealized intellectual space that emerged in Europe during the Enlightenment, where the public came together to discuss important issues relating to society, economy, and politics.
• O)A secular, critical way of thinking in which nothing was to be accepted on faith, and everything was to be submitted to reason.
• P)Regular social gathering held by talented and rich Parisian women in their homes, where philosophes and their followers met to discuss literature, science, and philosophy.
• Q)The influential intellectual and cultural movement of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries that introduced a new worldview based on the use of reason, the scientific method, and progress.

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