Exam 4: Philosophical and Pragmatic Traditions

According to Comte the first stage is called ----------

Who held the metaphysical perspective of Pragmatism and also made the distinction between science and metaphysics?

Peirce's --------- was first elaborated in a series of illustrations of the Logic of Science in the Popular Science Monthly in 1877.

The property of objects corresponding to the truth of judgments ,according to Meinong is -----

Peirce says that in order to grasp a term need ----- aspects of understanding .

Dewey insists that truth is -------- of thought to existence .

Dewey says that the problem must be defined before you can reach a Solution and need ------ steps for solving problems.

The role of the pragmatic maxim is to reveal that almost every proposition of ontological metaphysics…………..

Matter is known as our sensations of colour, figure, hardness and the like is the philosophy of ------

-------- 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

Dewey's philosophy can be described as a version of philosophical ---------

Compte reveals a law of -------- stages that govern human development and he analyzed these stages in his major work.

Dewey's own version of pragmatism was called ----------

Logical positivists emphasize the importance of scientific verification, rejecting the assertion of personal -------- experience

------------ defends social experimentation as a means of improving society, and accepts pluralism and rejects dead dogmas.

The pragmatic traditions were revitalized in the 1980s by American philosopher -----

Peirce acknowledges pragmatism is a kind of --------.

Logical positivists, who have been influenced by Peirce, believed that truth is closed to --------- .

------- never published books in his lifetime. But his greatest contributions were in the field of mathematical logic in many ways.

Peirce developed pragmatism as a theory of meaning in particular, the meaning of concepts used in ----------.