Exam 5: Philosophy and Philosophers

The philosophy of the Vienna Circle is broadly equivalent to ------

Who was not a major proponent of logical positivism in the Vienna Circle?

Who said that science is not about verifying hypotheses or theories, but falsifying them?

Pseudo-words or pseudo statements violating the rules of -------- positivism

Ernst Mach is an ------ philosopher.

Russell's important article ----- refers to definite and indefinite descriptions.

Wittgenstein's Tractatus .influenced ---------- PhilosophY.

In the United States, ----- rejected the distinction between analytic and synthetic propositions that was essential to early analytic philosophy.

--------- French philosopher and the founder of positivism.

The positivists today have rejected the so-called-------- school of philosophy prefer to call themselves logical empiricists.

John Dewey preferred to call his own philosophy as -----

Essays in Experimental Logic is the work of ----------

-------- divides all meaningful propositions into two categories: analytic propositions and synthetic propositions.

Pragmatism rejects --------

In philosophy of language, who adapted the theory of truth for formalized languages to provide a semantic theory of meaning for natural languages?

The founder of legal positivism was --------