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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) .
| 101. |
John Dewey preferred to call his own philosophy as ----- |
| A. | formalism |
| B. | idealism |
| C. | Experimentalism |
| D. | naturalism |
| Answer» C. Experimentalism | |
| 102. |
Essays in Experimental Logic is the work of ---------- |
| A. | C S Peirce |
| B. | Dewey |
| C. | Richard Rorty |
| D. | Anselm |
| Answer» B. Dewey | |
| 103. |
Pragmatism rejects -------- |
| A. | Abstraction |
| B. | Action |
| C. | Facts |
| D. | concreteness |
| Answer» A. Abstraction | |
| 104. |
--------- French philosopher and the founder of positivism. |
| A. | Dewey |
| B. | Comte |
| C. | Peirce |
| D. | James |
| Answer» B. Comte | |
| 105. |
Wittgenstein’s Tractatus .influenced ---------- PhilosophY. |
| A. | Universal |
| B. | Agnostic |
| C. | Logical positivists |
| D. | Idealist |
| Answer» C. Logical positivists | |
| 106. |
Pseudo-words or pseudo statements violating the rules of -------- positivism |
| A. | Legel |
| B. | Logical |
| C. | Comte’s |
| D. | All are false |
| Answer» B. Logical | |
| 107. |
Who said that science is not about verifying hypotheses or theories, but falsifying them? |
| A. | Carnap |
| B. | Sartre |
| C. | Husserl |
| D. | Popper |
| Answer» D. Popper | |
| 108. |
Who was not a major proponent of logical positivism in the Vienna Circle? |
| A. | Meinong |
| B. | Carnap |
| C. | Wittgenstein |
| D. | A J Ayer |
| Answer» A. Meinong | |
| 109. |
The positivists today have rejected the so-called-------- school of philosophy prefer to call themselves logical empiricists. |
| A. | Wolffian |
| B. | Vienna |
| C. | Existentialists |
| D. | Hermeneutical |
| Answer» B. Vienna | |
| 110. |
The founder of legal positivism was -------- |
| A. | Compte |
| B. | Peirce |
| C. | Dewey |
| D. | Jeremy Bentham |
| Answer» D. Jeremy Bentham | |
| 111. |
The philosophy of the Vienna Circle is broadly equivalent to ------ |
| A. | James |
| B. | Dewey |
| C. | logical positivism. |
| D. | Carnap |
| Answer» C. logical positivism. | |
| 112. |
-------- divides all meaningful propositions into two categories: analytic propositions and synthetic propositions. |
| A. | Logical positivism |
| B. | Existentialist |
| C. | Phenomenologist |
| D. | Positivist |
| Answer» A. Logical positivism | |
| 113. |
Ernst Mach is an ------ philosopher. |
| A. | Relative |
| B. | Empiricist |
| C. | Rationalist |
| D. | Instrumentalist |
| Answer» B. Empiricist | |
| 114. |
In the United States, ----- rejected the distinction between analytic and synthetic propositions that was essential to early analytic philosophy. |
| A. | Sartre |
| B. | Russell |
| C. | Quine |
| D. | Carnap |
| Answer» C. Quine | |
| 115. |
In philosophy of language, who adapted the theory of truth for formalized languages to provide a semantic theory of meaning for natural languages? |
| A. | Russell |
| B. | Tarski |
| C. | Sartre |
| D. | Carnap |
| Answer» B. Tarski | |
| 116. |
Russell’s important article ----- refers to definite and indefinite descriptions. |
| A. | On Denoting |
| B. | Logical Atomism |
| C. | Mathematica |
| D. | All are false |
| Answer» A. On Denoting | |
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