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| 801. |
--------became actively interested in the reform of educational theory and practice. |
| A. | James |
| B. | Peirce |
| C. | Dewey |
| D. | Anselm |
| Answer» D. Anselm | |
| 802. |
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 byanother. Who stated the above statement? |
| A. | James |
| B. | Dewey |
| C. | Neurath |
| D. | Carnap |
| Answer» B. Dewey | |
| 803. |
Who held the metaphysical perspective of Pragmatism and also made the distinctionbetween science and metaphysics? |
| A. | Compte |
| B. | Peirce |
| C. | Dewey |
| D. | James |
| Answer» E. | |
| 804. |
Peirce states his objection to the ------- theory by labeling it atranscendental account of truth |
| A. | Meinong’s |
| B. | coherence |
| C. | correspondence |
| D. | semantic |
| Answer» C. correspondence | |
| 805. |
Peirce says that in order to grasp a term need ----- aspects of understanding . |
| A. | Threefold |
| B. | twofold |
| C. | relative |
| D. | semantic |
| Answer» B. twofold | |
| 806. |
The role of the pragmatic maxim is to reveal that almost every proposition ofontological metaphysics………….. |
| A. | meaningful |
| B. | impossible |
| C. | possible |
| D. | relative |
| Answer» C. possible | |
| 807. |
Peirce acknowledges pragmatism is a kind of --------. |
| A. | Universal |
| B. | logic |
| C. | positivism |
| D. | innate idea |
| Answer» D. innate idea | |
| 808. |
Peirce’s --------- was first elaborated in a series of illustrations of the Logic ofScience in the Popular Science Monthly in 1877. |
| A. | Axiology |
| B. | Atheism |
| C. | Idealism |
| D. | Pragmatism |
| Answer» E. | |
| 809. |
------- never published books in his lifetime. But his greatest contributions were in thefield of mathematical logic in many ways. |
| A. | Dewey |
| B. | Compte |
| C. | Peirce |
| D. | James |
| Answer» D. James | |
| 810. |
------------ defends social experimentation as a means of improving society, and acceptspluralism and rejects dead dogmas. |
| A. | Phenomenology |
| B. | pragmatism |
| C. | Empiricism |
| D. | Absolutism |
| Answer» C. Empiricism | |
| 811. |
The pragmatic traditions were revitalized in the 1980s by American philosopher ----- |
| A. | C S Peirce |
| B. | Dewey |
| C. | Richard Rorty |
| D. | Anselm |
| Answer» D. Anselm | |
| 812. |
Dewey’s philosophy can be described as a version of philosophical --------- |
| A. | formalism |
| B. | idealism |
| C. | absolutism |
| D. | naturalism |
| Answer» E. | |
| 813. |
Logical positivists emphasize the importance of scientific verification, rejecting theassertion of personal -------- experience |
| A. | Subjective |
| B. | objective |
| C. | empirical |
| D. | factual |
| Answer» B. objective | |
| 814. |
Logical positivists, who have been influenced by Peirce, believed thattruth is closed to --------- . |
| A. | axioms |
| B. | norms |
| C. | facts |
| D. | ideas |
| Answer» D. ideas | |
| 815. |
Peirce developed pragmatism as a theory of meaning in particular, the meaning ofconcepts used in ----------. |
| A. | Religion |
| B. | Science |
| C. | Ethics |
| D. | Metaphysics |
| Answer» C. Ethics | |
| 816. |
-------- 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» B. Hermeneutics | |
| 817. |
The property of objects corresponding to the truth of judgments ,according toMeinong is ----- |
| A. | Intentionality |
| B. | Ideas |
| C. | Relation |
| D. | factuality |
| Answer» E. | |
| 818. |
Who derives the term 'theory of objects' which he preferred as 'metaphysics' and'ontology'? |
| A. | Schlick |
| B. | Meinong |
| C. | Hume |
| D. | Heidegger |
| Answer» C. Hume | |
| 819. |
Who accepted Brentano's thesis of the intentionality of the mental but modified itin a realistic direction, distinguishing between the content and object of a mental act? |
| A. | Meinong |
| B. | Husserl |
| C. | Carnap |
| D. | A.J Ayer |
| Answer» C. Carnap | |
| 820. |
According to --------, the two statements the round square is round and the mountainI am thinking of is golden are true statements about nonexistent objects |
| A. | Sartre |
| B. | Russell |
| C. | Meinong, |
| D. | Plato |
| Answer» D. Plato | |
| 821. |
-------- stated that object as round square have no type of being at all, they arehomeless objects, to be found not even in heaven. |
| A. | Frege’s |
| B. | Brentano’s |
| C. | Heidegger’s |
| D. | Meinong |
| Answer» E. | |
| 822. |
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» C. Husserl | |
| 823. |
On the Theory of Objects and Psychology is the work of -------------- |
| A. | Meinong |
| B. | Sartre |
| C. | Heidegger |
| D. | Brentano |
| Answer» B. Sartre | |
| 824. |
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» C. Brentano | |
| 825. |
Meinong claimed to have discovered a new a priori science, the theory of------- |
| A. | analytics |
| B. | ideas |
| C. | objects |
| D. | subjects |
| Answer» D. subjects | |
| 826. |
The central program of Carnap’s Logical Syntax of Language is the notionof ------------- framework. |
| A. | Ethical |
| B. | pragmatic |
| C. | Existential |
| D. | linguistic |
| Answer» E. | |
| 827. |
In Logical Syntax of Language, Carnap accepted Tarski’s------------techniques, |
| A. | Logical |
| B. | ethical |
| C. | semantical |
| D. | all are false |
| Answer» D. all are false | |
| 828. |
In the The Logical Syntax of Language, Carnap discussed -----------. |
| A. | Logical syntax |
| B. | Phenomenology |
| C. | virtue |
| D. | existentialism |
| Answer» B. Phenomenology | |
| 829. |
The business of --------includes questions about the meanings ofsubject expressions like the present king of France is bald. |
| A. | Idealism |
| B. | dialectics |
| C. | semantics |
| D. | logic |
| Answer» D. logic | |
| 830. |
------- is a central figure in the philosophy of language. |
| A. | Brentano |
| B. | Wittgenstein |
| C. | Meinong |
| D. | Husserl |
| Answer» C. Meinong | |
| 831. |
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» E. | |
| 832. |
The major issue of language of philosophy is the relationships between language and -- |
| A. | word |
| B. | world |
| C. | thought |
| D. | logic |
| Answer» C. thought | |
| 833. |
The Logical Syntax of Language is the work of ---------. |
| A. | C S Peirce |
| B. | Rudolf Carnap |
| C. | A. J .Ayer |
| D. | Husserl |
| Answer» C. A. J .Ayer | |
| 834. |
-------is a prominent figure in the philosophical movement knownas logical positivism or logical empiricism. |
| A. | Rudolf Carnap |
| B. | John Dewey |
| C. | Sartre |
| D. | Locke |
| Answer» B. John Dewey | |
| 835. |
The central idea of logical positivism is the Principle of ------------- |
| A. | metaphysics |
| B. | language |
| C. | epistemology |
| D. | Verification |
| Answer» E. | |
| 836. |
All the statements in mathematics and logic are true by itself and no need ofverification according to the ----------. |
| A. | Logical positivists |
| B. | Pragmatism |
| C. | phenomenology |
| D. | Heidegger |
| Answer» B. Pragmatism | |
| 837. |
Wittgenstein's famous work is called ------ |
| A. | Language, Truth and Logic |
| B. | Logic |
| C. | Investigation |
| D. | Tractatus |
| Answer» E. | |
| 838. |
According to logical positivists, all -------- statements are meaningless. |
| A. | logical |
| B. | mathematical |
| C. | metaphysical |
| D. | empirical |
| Answer» D. empirical | |
| 839. |
------- distinguished between meaningful and meaningless statements? |
| A. | Logical positivists |
| B. | Husserl |
| C. | Heidegger |
| D. | Sartre |
| Answer» B. Husserl | |
| 840. |
Who wrote the book Language, Truth and Logic? |
| A. | Frege |
| B. | A. J. Ayer |
| C. | Carnap |
| D. | Hume |
| Answer» C. Carnap | |
| 841. |
Leading members of the Vienna circle included M. Schlick, R. Carnap, O. Neurath, and |
| A. | Berkeley |
| B. | Descartes |
| C. | Waismann |
| D. | Husserl |
| Answer» D. Husserl | |
| 842. |
A statement which cannot be verified is held to be …………………………….. |
| A. | True |
| B. | valid |
| C. | meaningless |
| D. | idealist |
| Answer» D. idealist | |
| 843. |
Logical positivists attack on statement of ----------, theology and religion |
| A. | logical |
| B. | verifiable |
| C. | empirical |
| D. | metaphysics |
| Answer» E. | |
| 844. |
The most famous doctrine of logical positivism is its --------- principle |
| A. | Verifiability |
| B. | metaphysical |
| C. | Ethical |
| D. | all are false |
| Answer» B. metaphysical | |
| 845. |
Logical positivism is a philosophy developed by the Vienna Circle during the ------ |
| A. | 1950s |
| B. | 1980s |
| C. | 1920s |
| D. | 1960s |
| Answer» D. 1960s | |
| 846. |
All the existentialist thinkers suggest major themes and stress onconcrete ----- existence. |
| A. | ontological |
| B. | metaphysical |
| C. | individual |
| D. | theological |
| Answer» D. theological | |
| 847. |
------ who claimed to have worked out a total rational understanding ofhumanity and history. |
| A. | Hegel |
| B. | Nietzsche |
| C. | Husserl |
| D. | Kierkegaard |
| Answer» B. Nietzsche | |
| 848. |
Existentialists have argued that no objective and ------ principles can be found formoral decisions. |
| A. | Rational |
| B. | innate |
| C. | axiomatic |
| D. | subjective |
| Answer» B. innate | |
| 849. |
All existentialists have followed --------in stressing the importanceof individual action in deciding questions of both morality and truth |
| A. | Husserl |
| B. | Nietzsche |
| C. | Brentano |
| D. | Kierkegaard |
| Answer» E. | |
| 850. |
Existentialism is --------- century philosophical movement. |
| A. | 18th |
| B. | 20th |
| C. | 21st |
| D. | 5th |
| Answer» C. 21st | |