Question 1

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 2

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 3

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 4

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 5

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 6

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 7

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 8

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 9

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 10

-------- 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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 11

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 12

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 13

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 14

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 15

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 16

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 17

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 18

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 19

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 20

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

Accepted Answer

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

Exam 4: Philosophical and Pragmatic Traditions