Philosophy Of Language Set 3
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This set of Philosophy of Language Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Philosophy Of Language Set 3
Q1 | According to Quine,It is upon tacitly accepted corpus of information that we speak of or deducibility relative to one another.
- equivalence
- inequality
- hierarchy
- dissimilarity
Q2 | Quine states that it is not propositions which are true or false but sentence tokens orsentences if they are
- finite
- limited
- eternal
- narrow
Q3 | Eternal sentence is a sentence whose all have the same truth value.
- tokens
- syntax
- differences
- punctuations
Q4 | According to Quine, If we are to construe logic as true by convention, wemust rest logic ultimately upon some manner of convention other than
- analogy
- definition
- superimposition
- hierarchy
Q5 | Quine states, sentences can be made true by fiat by linguistic
- adaptability
- falsity
- convention
- opposition
Q6 | There are modest list of phonemes which are small units
- decision
- speech
- variable
- arthmetic
Q7 | In Quine’s view, the lexicon is devised for use in speech by the grammarianby demarcating the desired class.
- normal
- technical
- complex
- temporary
Q8 | Negation is a construction whichoperate in constituents.
- multiple
- single
- three
- undefined
Q9 | Quine states that regarding what operation is to be carried out upon the expressionsthere are such
- constituents
- elements
- technicalities
- categories
Q10 | Catgories are for Quine parts of even though they do not preservetraditional lines of cleavage
- speech
- logic
- arithmetic
- frame
Q11 | A word can be a noun in one category and verb in another category so insuch cases substitutability is
- complete
- incomplete
- absolute
- fixed
Q12 | According to quine two kinds of linguistic notions are immanence and
- correspondence
- coherence
- transcendence
- efficient
Q13 | A lexicon in Quine’s view point may be termed notion
- transcendent
- immanent
- blind
- corrupt
Q14 | According to Quine, It is through of construction that infinite category ofvariables is generated.
- iteration
- subtraction
- reduction
- decrease
Q15 | One of the grammatical construction is a predicate with a variable
- analysing
- negating
- joining
- avoiding
Q16 | An sentence is neither true or false
- closed
- free
- open
- combined
Q17 | According to Quine, what is lacking in logical grammer is a list of
- subjects
- predicates
- errors
- analysis
Q18 | Frege classified predicates as special case of expressions andsentences as complex singular term.
- functional
- outward
- joint
- divided
Q19 | When the dictionary giving the syntactic atom is added it will yield
- error
- semantics
- definition
- rule
Q20 | The central task of is to provide semantic interpretation to every sentence in alanguage, according to Davidson nowhere in linguistic literature is given how to accomplishthis task
- semantics
- syntax
- logic
- symbolism
Q21 | According to Davidson theory of meaning is an empirical theory, it should accountfor the working of language
- artificial
- logical
- natural
- simplified
Q22 | Davidson wants to propose a formal theory for natural language
- syntactic
- semantic
- symbolic
- intuition
Q23 | The work of Frege and Tarskishowed how languagesmethods could be applied to natural
- informal
- intuitive
- formal
- compositional
Q24 | According to Davidson if demonstratives aretreated as happenthen logical error cannot
- variables
- formal
- partial
- constant
Q25 | The distinguishing feature of analytic tradition according to Dummett is the focus on and explication of language.
- analysis
- conjunction
- demarcation
- synthesis