Deck 4: Philosophical and Pragmatic Traditions

Question 1

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

A)Intentionality
B)Ideas
C)Relation
D)factuality

Answer 1

factuality

Question 2

-------- 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

A)Pragmatism
B)Hermeneutics
C)Positivism
D)all are false

Answer 2

Pragmatism

Question 3

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

A)Religion
B)Science
C)Ethics
D)Metaphysics

Answer 3

Science

Question 4

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

A)axioms
B)norms
C)facts
D)ideas

Question 5

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

A)Subjective
B)objective
C)empirical
D)factual

Question 6

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

A)formalism
B)idealism
C)absolutism
D)naturalism

Question 7

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

A)C S Peirce
B)Dewey
C)Richard Rorty
D)Anselm

Question 8

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

A)Phenomenology
B)pragmatism
C)Empiricism
D)Absolutism

Question 9

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

A)Dewey
B)Compte
C)Peirce
D)James

Question 10

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

A)Axiology
B)Atheism
C)Idealism
D)Pragmatism

Question 11

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

A)Universal
B)logic
C)positivism
D)innate idea

Question 12

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

A)meaningful
B)impossible
C)possible
D)relative

Question 13

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

A)Threefold
B)twofold
C)relative
D)semantic

Question 14

Peirce states his objection to the ------- theory by labeling it a transcendental account of truth

A)Meinong's
B)coherence
C)correspondence
D)semantic

Question 15

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

A)Compte
B)Peirce
C)Dewey
D)James

Question 16

Truth and falsity apply not to objects but only to our ideas of objects. Our ideas of objects are mutable in the sense that we can modify ideas or replace one idea by another. Who stated the above statement?

A)James
B)Dewey
C)Neurath
D)Carnap

Question 17

--------became actively interested in the reform of educational theory and practice.

A)James
B)Peirce
C)Dewey
D)Anselm

Question 18

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

A)positivism
B)Relativism
C)absolutism
D)instrumentalism

Question 19

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

A)Five
B)four
C)three
D)six

Question 20

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

A)semantic
B)coherence
C)correspondence
D)all are false

Question 21

--------- is a system of philosophy based on experience and empirical knowledge of natural phenomena. They regarded metaphysics and theology is inadequate and imperfect systems of knowledge.

A)Relativism
B)Positivism
C)Intentionality
D)Consciousness

Question 22

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

A)two
B)three
C)four
D)all are false

Question 23

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

A)Polytheism
B)monotheism
C)teliological
D)intellectual

Question 24

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

A)pragmatism
B)Idealism
C)Utilitarianism
D)Existentialism

Question 25

---------- is the twentieth century philosophy .

A)Idealism
B)Rationalism
C)Deontology
D)pragmatism