Contemporary Western Philosophy Set 4

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This set of Contemporary Western Philosophy Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Contemporary Western Philosophy Set 4

Q1 | The property of objects corresponding to the truth of judgments ,according toMeinong is -----
  • Intentionality
  • Ideas
  • Relation
  • factuality
Answer: factuality
Q2 | -------- 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
  • Pragmatism
  • Hermeneutics
  • Positivism
  • all are false
Answer: Pragmatism
Q3 | Peirce developed pragmatism as a theory of meaning in particular, the meaning ofconcepts used in ----------.
  • Religion
  • Science
  • Ethics
  • Metaphysics
Answer: Science
Q4 | Logical positivists, who have been influenced by Peirce, believed thattruth is closed to --------- .
  • axioms
  • norms
  • facts
  • ideas
Answer: facts
Q5 | Logical positivists emphasize the importance of scientific verification, rejecting theassertion of personal -------- experience
  • Subjective
  • objective
  • empirical
  • factual
Answer: Subjective
Q6 | Dewey’s philosophy can be described as a version of philosophical ---------
  • formalism
  • idealism
  • absolutism
  • naturalism
Answer: naturalism
Q7 | The pragmatic traditions were revitalized in the 1980s by American philosopher -----
  • C S Peirce
  • Dewey
  • Richard Rorty
  • Anselm
Answer: Richard Rorty
Q8 | ------------ defends social experimentation as a means of improving society, and acceptspluralism and rejects dead dogmas.
  • Phenomenology
  • pragmatism
  • Empiricism
  • Absolutism
Answer: pragmatism
Q9 | ------- never published books in his lifetime. But his greatest contributions were in thefield of mathematical logic in many ways.
  • Dewey
  • Compte
  • Peirce
  • James
Answer: Peirce
Q10 | Peirce’s --------- was first elaborated in a series of illustrations of the Logic ofScience in the Popular Science Monthly in 1877.
  • Axiology
  • Atheism
  • Idealism
  • Pragmatism
Answer: Pragmatism
Q11 | Peirce acknowledges pragmatism is a kind of --------.
  • Universal
  • logic
  • positivism
  • innate idea
Answer: positivism
Q12 | The role of the pragmatic maxim is to reveal that almost every proposition ofontological metaphysics…………..
  • meaningful
  • impossible
  • possible
  • relative
Answer: impossible
Q13 | Peirce says that in order to grasp a term need ----- aspects of understanding .
  • Threefold
  • twofold
  • relative
  • semantic
Answer: Threefold
Q14 | Peirce states his objection to the ------- theory by labeling it atranscendental account of truth
  • Meinong’s
  • coherence
  • correspondence
  • semantic
Answer: coherence
Q15 | Who held the metaphysical perspective of Pragmatism and also made the distinctionbetween science and metaphysics?
  • Compte
  • Peirce
  • Dewey
  • James
Answer: James
Q16 | 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?
  • James
  • Dewey
  • Neurath
  • Carnap
Answer: James
Q17 | --------became actively interested in the reform of educational theory and practice.
  • James
  • Peirce
  • Dewey
  • Anselm
Answer: Dewey
Q18 | Dewey's own version of pragmatism was called ----------
  • positivism
  • Relativism
  • absolutism
  • instrumentalism
Answer: instrumentalism
Q19 | Dewey says that the problem must be defined before you can reach aSolution and need ------ steps for solving problems.
  • Five
  • four
  • three
  • six
Answer: Five
Q20 | Dewey insists that truth is -------- of thought to existence .
  • semantic
  • coherence
  • correspondence
  • all are false
Answer: correspondence
Q21 | --------- is a system of philosophy based on experience and empirical knowledge ofnatural phenomena. They regarded metaphysics and theology is inadequate and imperfect systems of knowledge.
  • Relativism
  • Positivism
  • Intentionality
  • Consciousness
Answer: Positivism
Q22 | Compte reveals a law of -------- stages that govern human development and heanalyzed these stages in his major work.
  • two
  • three
  • four
  • all are false
Answer: three
Q23 | According to Comte the first stage is called ----------
  • Polytheism
  • monotheism
  • teliological
  • intellectual
Answer: teliological
Q24 | Matter is known as our sensations of colour, figure, hardness and the like is thephilosophy of ------
  • pragmatism
  • Idealism
  • Utilitarianism
  • Existentialism
Answer: pragmatism
Q25 | ---------- is the twentieth century philosophy .
  • Idealism
  • Rationalism
  • Deontology
  • pragmatism
Answer: pragmatism
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