Methodology Of Philosophy Set 7

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This set of Methodology of Philosophy Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Methodology Of Philosophy Set 7

Q1 | Who was convinced about the deductive, intuitive and primitive empirical approaches to philosophy?
  • aquinas
  • augustine
  • anslem
  • francis bacon
Answer: francis bacon
Q2 | Who acknowledged the major Kantian insight of the importance of mind as an active agent in the interpretation of experience
  • rationalist
  • empiricist
  • emotivist
  • pragmatists
Answer: pragmatists
Q3 | Which method accepted that Truth is a belief evolved through the test of experience?
  • naturalism
  • idealism
  • emotivism
  • pragmatism
Answer: pragmatism
Q4 | Which American mathematician philosopher laid down the foundation of pragmatism?
  • w.james
  • j.dewey
  • c s pierce
  • spinoza
Answer: c s pierce
Q5 | Which maxim states ‘a rule for clarifying the contents of hypotheses by tracing their practical consequences’?
  • pragmatist
  • naturalist
  • rationalist
  • empiricist
Answer: pragmatist
Q6 | Who published the article “How To Make Our Ideas Clear.”?
  • pierce
  • russell
  • kant
  • james
Answer: pierce
Q7 | Who wished to establish philosophy on a scientific basis and to treat theories as working hypotheses?
  • spinoza
  • pierce
  • plato
  • aristotle
Answer: pierce
Q8 | Who accepts only the “general method of science”, a method that employs hypotheses, but require their empirical verification.
  • descartes
  • pierce
  • augustine
  • bacon
Answer: pierce
Q9 | Who introduces the principle of pragmatism as a development of the rationalistic notion of “clear and distinct ideas”.
  • locke
  • berkley
  • kant
  • pierce
Answer: pierce
Q10 | Who coined the word pragmatism from the Greek word pragma (“act” or “deed”) to emphasize the fact that words derive their meanings from actions.
  • russell
  • c.s. pierce
  • william james
  • john dewey
Answer: c.s. pierce
Q11 | Who wrote the book Pragmatism,
  • russell
  • c.s. pierce
  • william james
  • john dewey
Answer: william james
Q12 | Who defines the term radical empiricism with pragmatism
  • john dewey
  • c.s. pierce
  • russell
  • william james
Answer: william james
Q13 | Who said, “Truth happens to an idea.”
  • john dewey
  • russell
  • william james
  • c.s. pierce
Answer: william james
Q14 | Workability, satisfactions, consequences, and results are the key words in the pragmatic conception of truth according to …………….
  • naturalism
  • idealism
  • pragmatism
  • realism
Answer: pragmatism
Q15 | Who began the method of pragmatism in the modern period
  • john dewey
  • russell
  • william james
  • c.s. pierce
Answer: c.s. pierce
Q16 | Who popularized the method of pragmatism
  • russell
  • kant
  • charles sanders pierce
  • william james
Answer: william james
Q17 | Immanual Kant used the word ‘phenomena’ for
  • ”things as they appear to us”
  • “things as they are in themselves”
  • “mind as it appears to us”
  • “theory of illusion”
Answer: ”things as they appear to us”
Q18 | Phenomenology for Hegel was
  • the name of a way of doing philosophy
  • a descriptive study of all observable reals
  • the science in which we study mind as it is in itself
  • the science of phenomena
Answer: the science in which we study mind as it is in itself
Q19 | -------------------was the first to use phenomenology as the name of a way of doing philosophy
  • j.h.lambert
  • hegel
  • william hamilton
  • edmund husserl
Answer: edmund husserl
Q20 | ----------------------used the term phenomenology as the “theory of illusion”
  • immanual kant
  • j.h.lambert
  • hegel
  • edmund husserl
Answer: j.h.lambert
Q21 | The leading rule of phenomenological method is
  • “existence precedes essence”
  • “back to things themselves”
  • “cogito-ergosum”
  • “dubito ergo sum”
Answer: “back to things themselves”
Q22 | The slogon of phenomenology is
  • ”to the things themselves”
  • “cogito ergo sum”
  • “existence precedes essence”
  • “dubito ergo sum”
Answer: ”to the things themselves”
Q23 | Hume’s phenomenalism states that
  • logical is identified with psychological statements
  • material things are nothing but ideas
  • soul is nothing but astream of consciousness
  • physical objects as well as human beings are no more than collections of their observable properties
Answer: physical objects as well as human beings are no more than collections of their observable properties
Q24 | ‘Psychological atomism ‘ is a type of reductionism according to which
  • physical objects as well as human beings are no more than collections of their observable properties.
  • material things are nothing but ideas
  • consciousness is a set of contents, viz, sensations, feelings etc
  • none of the above
Answer: consciousness is a set of contents, viz, sensations, feelings etc
Q25 | Phenomenology opposes scientism which takes
  • material things as ideas
  • soul as a stream of consciousness
  • scientific or empirical statements as premises in philosophical arguments
  • physical objects as well as human beings as collections of their observable
Answer: scientific or empirical statements as premises in philosophical arguments
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