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110+ Contemporary Western Philosophy Solved MCQs

These multiple-choice questions (MCQs) are designed to enhance your knowledge and understanding in the following areas: Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy (BA Philosophy) .

51.

Logical positivists attack on statement of ----------, theology and religion

A. logical
B. verifiable
C. empirical
D. metaphysics
Answer» D. metaphysics
52.

Leading members of the Vienna circle included M. Schlick, R. Carnap, O. Neurath, and

A. Berkeley
B. Descartes
C. Waismann
D. Husserl
Answer» C. Waismann
53.

Who wrote the book Language, Truth and Logic?

A. Frege
B. A. J. Ayer
C. Carnap
D. Hume
Answer» B. A. J. Ayer
54.

------- distinguished between meaningful and meaningless statements?

A. Logical positivists
B. Husserl
C. Heidegger
D. Sartre
Answer» A. Logical positivists
55.

According to logical positivists, all -------- statements are meaningless.

A. logical
B. mathematical
C. metaphysical
D. empirical
Answer» C. metaphysical
56.

Wittgenstein's famous work is called ------

A. Language, Truth and Logic
B. Logic
C. Investigation
D. Tractatus
Answer» D. Tractatus
57.

All the statements in mathematics and logic are true by itself and no need of verification according to the ----------.

A. Logical positivists
B. Pragmatism
C. phenomenology
D. Heidegger
Answer» A. Logical positivists
58.

The central idea of logical positivism is the Principle of -------------

A. metaphysics
B. language
C. epistemology
D. Verification
Answer» D. Verification
59.

-------is a prominent figure in the philosophical movement known as logical positivism or logical empiricism.

A. Rudolf Carnap
B. John Dewey
C. Sartre
D. Locke
Answer» A. Rudolf Carnap
60.

The Logical Syntax of Language is the work of ---------.

A. C S Peirce
B. Rudolf Carnap
C. A. J .Ayer
D. Husserl
Answer» B. Rudolf Carnap
61.

The major issue of language of philosophy is the relationships between language and --

A. word
B. world
C. thought
D. logic
Answer» B. world
62.

An influential type of philosophy of language developed out of ----- generative grammar.

A. Husserl
B. A. J .Ayer
C. C S Peirce
D. Chomsky
Answer» D. Chomsky
63.

------- is a central figure in the philosophy of language.

A. Brentano
B. Wittgenstein
C. Meinong
D. Husserl
Answer» B. Wittgenstein
64.

The business of --------includes questions about the meanings of subject expressions like the present king of France is bald.

A. Idealism
B. dialectics
C. semantics
D. logic
Answer» C. semantics
65.

In the The Logical Syntax of Language, Carnap discussed -----------.

A. Logical syntax
B. Phenomenology
C. virtue
D. existentialism
Answer» A. Logical syntax
66.

In Logical Syntax of Language, Carnap accepted Tarski’s ------------techniques,

A. Logical
B. ethical
C. semantical
D. all are false
Answer» C. semantical
67.

The central program of Carnap’s Logical Syntax of Language is the notion of ------------- framework.

A. Ethical
B. pragmatic
C. Existential
D. linguistic
Answer» D. linguistic
68.

Meinong claimed to have discovered a new a priori science, the theory of-------

A. analytics
B. ideas
C. objects
D. subjects
Answer» C. objects
69.

Who made the distinction between objects may either exist (such as physical objects) or subsist(such as mathematical entities).

A. Hussel
B. Meinong
C. Brentano
D. Sartre
Answer» B. Meinong
70.

On the Theory of Objects and Psychology is the work of --------------

A. Meinong
B. Sartre
C. Heidegger
D. Brentano
Answer» A. Meinong
71.

Every object is independent of its being. Some exist and others (for e g., golden mountains) do not exist is the philosophy of ------

A. Heidegger
B. Meinong
C. Husserl
D. C S Peirce
Answer» B. Meinong
72.

-------- stated that object as round square have no type of being at all, they are homeless objects, to be found not even in heaven.

A. Frege’s
B. Brentano’s
C. Heidegger’s
D. Meinong
Answer» D. Meinong
73.

According to --------, the two statements the round square is round and the mountain I am thinking of is golden are true statements about nonexistent objects

A. Sartre
B. Russell
C. Meinong,
D. Plato
Answer» C. Meinong,
74.

Who accepted Brentano's thesis of the intentionality of the mental but modified it in a realistic direction, distinguishing between the content and object of a mental act?

A. Meinong
B. Husserl
C. Carnap
D. A.J Ayer
Answer» B. Husserl
75.

Who derives the term 'theory of objects' which he preferred as 'metaphysics' and 'ontology'?

A. Schlick
B. Meinong
C. Hume
D. Heidegger
Answer» B. Meinong
76.

The property of objects corresponding to the truth of judgments ,according to Meinong is -----

A. Intentionality
B. Ideas
C. Relation
D. factuality
Answer» D. factuality
77.

-------- influenced developments in psychology, sociology, education, semiotics (the study of signs and symbols), and scientific method, as well as philosophy, cultural criticism, and social reform movements in France, England and Italy

A. Pragmatism
B. Hermeneutics
C. Positivism
D. all are false
Answer» A. Pragmatism
78.

Peirce developed pragmatism as a theory of meaning in particular, the meaning of concepts used in ----------.

A. Religion
B. Science
C. Ethics
D. Metaphysics
Answer» B. Science
79.

Logical positivists, who have been influenced by Peirce, believed that truth is closed to --------- .

A. axioms
B. norms
C. facts
D. ideas
Answer» C. facts
80.

Logical positivists emphasize the importance of scientific verification, rejecting the assertion of personal -------- experience

A. Subjective
B. objective
C. empirical
D. factual
Answer» A. Subjective
81.

Dewey’s philosophy can be described as a version of philosophical ---------

A. formalism
B. idealism
C. absolutism
D. naturalism
Answer» D. naturalism
82.

The pragmatic traditions were revitalized in the 1980s by American philosopher -----

A. C S Peirce
B. Dewey
C. Richard Rorty
D. Anselm
Answer» C. Richard Rorty
83.

------------ defends social experimentation as a means of improving society, and accepts pluralism and rejects dead dogmas.

A. Phenomenology
B. pragmatism
C. Empiricism
D. Absolutism
Answer» B. pragmatism
84.

------- never published books in his lifetime. But his greatest contributions were in the field of mathematical logic in many ways.

A. Dewey
B. Compte
C. Peirce
D. James
Answer» C. Peirce
85.

Peirce’s --------- was first elaborated in a series of illustrations of the Logic of Science in the Popular Science Monthly in 1877.

A. Axiology
B. Atheism
C. Idealism
D. Pragmatism
Answer» D. Pragmatism
86.

Peirce acknowledges pragmatism is a kind of --------.

A. Universal
B. logic
C. positivism
D. innate idea
Answer» C. positivism
87.

The role of the pragmatic maxim is to reveal that almost every proposition of ontological metaphysics…………..

A. meaningful
B. impossible
C. possible
D. relative
Answer» B. impossible
88.

Peirce says that in order to grasp a term need ----- aspects of understanding .

A. Threefold
B. twofold
C. relative
D. semantic
Answer» A. Threefold
89.

Peirce states his objection to the ------- theory by labeling it a transcendental account of truth

A. Meinong’s
B. coherence
C. correspondence
D. semantic
Answer» B. coherence
90.

Who held the metaphysical perspective of Pragmatism and also made the distinction between science and metaphysics?

A. Compte
B. Peirce
C. Dewey
D. James
Answer» D. James
91.

Truth and falsity apply not to objects but only to our ideas of objects. Our ideas of objects are mutable in the sense that we can modify ideas or replace one idea by another. Who stated the above statement?

A. James
B. Dewey
C. Neurath
D. Carnap
Answer» A. James
92.

--------became actively interested in the reform of educational theory and practice.

A. James
B. Peirce
C. Dewey
D. Anselm
Answer» C. Dewey
93.

Dewey's own version of pragmatism was called ----------

A. positivism
B. Relativism
C. absolutism
D. instrumentalism
Answer» D. instrumentalism
94.

Dewey says that the problem must be defined before you can reach a Solution and need ------ steps for solving problems.

A. Five
B. four
C. three
D. six
Answer» A. Five
95.

Dewey insists that truth is -------- of thought to existence .

A. semantic
B. coherence
C. correspondence
D. all are false
Answer» C. correspondence
96.

--------- is a system of philosophy based on experience and empirical knowledge of natural phenomena. They regarded metaphysics and theology is inadequate and imperfect systems of knowledge.

A. Relativism
B. Positivism
C. Intentionality
D. Consciousness
Answer» B. Positivism
97.

Compte reveals a law of -------- stages that govern human development and he analyzed these stages in his major work.

A. two
B. three
C. four
D. all are false
Answer» B. three
98.

According to Comte the first stage is called ----------

A. Polytheism
B. monotheism
C. teliological
D. intellectual
Answer» C. teliological
99.

Matter is known as our sensations of colour, figure, hardness and the like is the philosophy of ------

A. pragmatism
B. Idealism
C. Utilitarianism
D. Existentialism
Answer» A. pragmatism
100.

---------- is the twentieth century philosophy .

A. Idealism
B. Rationalism
C. Deontology
D. pragmatism
Answer» D. pragmatism

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