Contemporary Western Philosophy Set 5

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This set of Contemporary Western Philosophy Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Contemporary Western Philosophy Set 5

Q1 | John Dewey preferred to call his own philosophy as -----
  • formalism
  • idealism
  • Experimentalism
  • naturalism
Answer: Experimentalism
Q2 | Essays in Experimental Logic is the work of ----------
  • C S Peirce
  • Dewey
  • Richard Rorty
  • Anselm
Answer: Dewey
Q3 | Pragmatism rejects --------
  • Abstraction
  • Action
  • Facts
  • concreteness
Answer: Abstraction
Q4 | --------- French philosopher and the founder of positivism.
  • Dewey
  • Comte
  • Peirce
  • James
Answer: Comte
Q5 | Wittgenstein’s Tractatus .influenced ---------- PhilosophY.
  • Universal
  • Agnostic
  • Logical positivists
  • Idealist
Answer: Logical positivists
Q6 | Pseudo-words or pseudo statements violating the rules of -------- positivism
  • Legel
  • Logical
  • Comte’s
  • All are false
Answer: Logical
Q7 | Who said that science is not about verifying hypotheses or theories, but falsifying them?
  • Carnap
  • Sartre
  • Husserl
  • Popper
Answer: Popper
Q8 | Who was not a major proponent of logical positivism in the Vienna Circle?
  • Meinong
  • Carnap
  • Wittgenstein
  • A J Ayer
Answer: Meinong
Q9 | The positivists today have rejected the so-called-------- school of philosophy prefer tocall themselves logical empiricists.
  • Wolffian
  • Vienna
  • Existentialists
  • Hermeneutical
Answer: Vienna
Q10 | The founder of legal positivism was --------
  • Compte
  • Peirce
  • Dewey
  • Jeremy Bentham
Answer: Jeremy Bentham
Q11 | The philosophy of the Vienna Circle is broadly equivalent to ------
  • James
  • Dewey
  • logical positivism.
  • Carnap
Answer: logical positivism.
Q12 | -------- divides all meaningful propositions into two categories: analyticpropositions and synthetic propositions.
  • Logical positivism
  • Existentialist
  • Phenomenologist
  • Positivist
Answer: Logical positivism
Q13 | Ernst Mach is an ------ philosopher.
  • Relative
  • Empiricist
  • Rationalist
  • Instrumentalist
Answer: Empiricist
Q14 | In the United States, ----- rejected the distinction between analytic and syntheticpropositions that was essential to early analytic philosophy.
  • Sartre
  • Russell
  • Quine
  • Carnap
Answer: Quine
Q15 | In philosophy of language, who adapted the theory of truth for formalized languagesto provide a semantic theory of meaning for natural languages?
  • Russell
  • Tarski
  • Sartre
  • Carnap
Answer: Tarski
Q16 | Russell’s important article ----- refers to definite and indefinite descriptions.
  • On Denoting
  • Logical Atomism
  • Mathematica
  • All are false
Answer: On Denoting
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