If someone said to someone else, "Why do your feelings and imagination have to spring from a void rather than from the fullness of the given?" this would be

a. an expressionist critique of a formalist.
b. a Zen critique of an existentialist.
c. Plato's critique of a formalist.
d. Both (a) and (c).


ANS: B

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