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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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