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This set of Philosophy of Language Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Philosophy Of Language Set 1

Q1 | G.E Moore states that the predicate good was
  • definable
  • difficult
  • indefinable
  • wrong
Q2 | Analytic philosophy is not a movement, instead there are various subgroups and individual thinkers collected under it
  • justified
  • unified
  • meaningful
  • scattered
Q3 | Principia Ethica is book written by which of the following thinkers
  • wittgenstein
  • russell
  • g.e. moore
  • carnap
Q4 | In Principia Ethicaanalysis was applied to understand the nature of deliberations
  • mathematical
  • moral
  • material
  • difficult
Q5 | According to Hacker, analysis is the of a concept in to its elements.
  • decomposition
  • unification
  • joining
  • synthesis
Q6 | Symbolic logic was seen to be fundamental to theorizing
  • spiritual
  • poetic
  • scientific
  • psychological
Q7 | Regarding the origin of 20th century analytic philosophy is in orientation
  • psychological
  • non - psychological
  • intuitive
  • transcendental
Q8 | A good way ahead was the role of logic and in philosophizing
  • sophistry
  • illusion
  • science
  • myth
Q9 | Frege observed that there was lack of firm foundations in the discipline.
  • temporary
  • hierarchical
  • logical
  • cyclical
Q10 | Frege’s logistic thesis claims that mathematical theorems concerning number can be in terms of purely logical sort
  • mistaken
  • cancelled
  • error
  • re-expressed
Q11 | Frege’s concern was mainly issues
  • botanical
  • logico-linguistic
  • religious
  • ethical
Q12 | The logical foundations for the proofs of are given in Begriffschrift
  • ethics
  • theology
  • arithmetic
  • geology
Q13 | The looseness and of natural language is cancelled by using specialnotations of ideal language
  • clarity
  • depth
  • ambience
  • vagueness
Q14 | It is not the processes that Frege points to when he insistson the proofs of the law of arithmetic.
  • psychological
  • mathematical
  • logical
  • logico-linguistic
Q15 | The form of system of logic is through the conceptual notation of Frege.
  • old
  • traditional
  • modern
  • classical
Q16 | The predicate in the proposition of the older logic is clarified through the analogyof the mathematical notion of and logical notion of concept.
  • function
  • matrix
  • equation
  • reference
Q17 | The combination of and function is said to have a truth value
  • concept
  • argument
  • vagueness
  • emptiness
Q18 | According to Frege,It is the features inlanguage that one understands if one understands the nature of meaning in language
  • subjective
  • objective
  • partial
  • incomplete
Q19 | For Frege concepts are entities
  • subjective
  • transcendent
  • objective
  • transient
Q20 | According to Frege, the linguistic expression that stands for concepts is called
  • constant
  • concept word
  • antonym
  • proper name
Q21 | In Fregean thought understanding of words is successfully achieved by itscontribution to the formation and in sentences
  • opposition
  • verification
  • use
  • complexity
Q22 | Frege’s approach to philosophy of language is one
  • syntactical
  • dialectical
  • atomistic
  • semantical
Q23 | According to Frege, can be called the science which makes discoveriesabout the existence and properties of certain independent abstract objects say numbers
  • taxonomy
  • physics
  • arithmetic
  • botany
Q24 | In defining number, Frege defines class as the of the concept
  • extension
  • intension
  • verification
  • negation
Q25 | It is only through standards set through language that the deficiencies ofnatural language in day to day use could be recognized
  • complex
  • atomic
  • hierarchical
  • ideal