Contemporary Western Philosophy Set 3

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This set of Contemporary Western Philosophy Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Contemporary Western Philosophy Set 3

Q1 | Logical positivists attack on statement of ----------, theology and religion
  • logical
  • verifiable
  • empirical
  • metaphysics
Answer: metaphysics
Q2 | Leading members of the Vienna circle included M. Schlick, R. Carnap, O. Neurath, and
  • Berkeley
  • Descartes
  • Waismann
  • Husserl
Answer: Waismann
Q3 | Who wrote the book Language, Truth and Logic?
  • Frege
  • A. J. Ayer
  • Carnap
  • Hume
Answer: A. J. Ayer
Q4 | ------- distinguished between meaningful and meaningless statements?
  • Logical positivists
  • Husserl
  • Heidegger
  • Sartre
Answer: Logical positivists
Q5 | According to logical positivists, all -------- statements are meaningless.
  • logical
  • mathematical
  • metaphysical
  • empirical
Answer: metaphysical
Q6 | Wittgenstein's famous work is called ------
  • Language, Truth and Logic
  • Logic
  • Investigation
  • Tractatus
Answer: Tractatus
Q7 | All the statements in mathematics and logic are true by itself and no need ofverification according to the ----------.
  • Logical positivists
  • Pragmatism
  • phenomenology
  • Heidegger
Answer: Logical positivists
Q8 | The central idea of logical positivism is the Principle of -------------
  • metaphysics
  • language
  • epistemology
  • Verification
Answer: Verification
Q9 | -------is a prominent figure in the philosophical movement knownas logical positivism or logical empiricism.
  • Rudolf Carnap
  • John Dewey
  • Sartre
  • Locke
Answer: Rudolf Carnap
Q10 | The Logical Syntax of Language is the work of ---------.
  • C S Peirce
  • Rudolf Carnap
  • A. J .Ayer
  • Husserl
Answer: Rudolf Carnap
Q11 | The major issue of language of philosophy is the relationships between language and --
  • word
  • world
  • thought
  • logic
Answer: world
Q12 | An influential type of philosophy of language developed out of ----- generative grammar.
  • Husserl
  • A. J .Ayer
  • C S Peirce
  • Chomsky
Answer: Chomsky
Q13 | ------- is a central figure in the philosophy of language.
  • Brentano
  • Wittgenstein
  • Meinong
  • Husserl
Answer: Wittgenstein
Q14 | The business of --------includes questions about the meanings ofsubject expressions like the present king of France is bald.
  • Idealism
  • dialectics
  • semantics
  • logic
Answer: semantics
Q15 | In the The Logical Syntax of Language, Carnap discussed -----------.
  • Logical syntax
  • Phenomenology
  • virtue
  • existentialism
Answer: Logical syntax
Q16 | In Logical Syntax of Language, Carnap accepted Tarski’s------------techniques,
  • Logical
  • ethical
  • semantical
  • all are false
Answer: semantical
Q17 | The central program of Carnap’s Logical Syntax of Language is the notionof ------------- framework.
  • Ethical
  • pragmatic
  • Existential
  • linguistic
Answer: linguistic
Q18 | Meinong claimed to have discovered a new a priori science, the theory of-------
  • analytics
  • ideas
  • objects
  • subjects
Answer: objects
Q19 | Who made the distinction between objects may either exist (such as physical objects)or subsist(such as mathematical entities).
  • Hussel
  • Meinong
  • Brentano
  • Sartre
Answer: Meinong
Q20 | On the Theory of Objects and Psychology is the work of --------------
  • Meinong
  • Sartre
  • Heidegger
  • Brentano
Answer: Meinong
Q21 | Every object is independent of its being. Some exist and others (for e g., golden mountains) do not exist is the philosophy of ------
  • Heidegger
  • Meinong
  • Husserl
  • C S Peirce
Answer: Meinong
Q22 | -------- stated that object as round square have no type of being at all, they arehomeless objects, to be found not even in heaven.
  • Frege’s
  • Brentano’s
  • Heidegger’s
  • Meinong
Answer: Meinong
Q23 | According to --------, the two statements the round square is round and the mountainI am thinking of is golden are true statements about nonexistent objects
  • Sartre
  • Russell
  • Meinong,
  • Plato
Answer: Meinong,
Q24 | 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?
  • Meinong
  • Husserl
  • Carnap
  • A.J Ayer
Answer: Husserl
Q25 | Who derives the term 'theory of objects' which he preferred as 'metaphysics' and'ontology'?
  • Schlick
  • Meinong
  • Hume
  • Heidegger
Answer: Meinong
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