Question 1

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

Accepted Answer

A)  James
B)  Dewey
C)  logical positivism.
D)  Carnap C

Question 2

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

Accepted Answer

A)  Meinong
B)  Carnap
C)  Wittgenstein
D)  A J Ayer A

Question 3

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

Accepted Answer

A)  Carnap
B)  Sartre
C)  Husserl
D)  Popper D

Question 4

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

Accepted Answer

A)  Legel
B)  Logical
C)  Comte's
D)  All are false

Question 5

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

Accepted Answer

A)  Relative
B)  Empiricist
C)  Rationalist
D)  Instrumentalist

Question 6

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

Accepted Answer

A)  On Denoting
B)  Logical Atomism
C)  Mathematica
D)  All are false

Question 7

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

Accepted Answer

A)  Universal
B)  Agnostic
C)  Logical positivists
D)  Idealist

Question 8

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

Accepted Answer

A)  Sartre
B)  Russell
C)  Quine
D)  Carnap

Question 9

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 10

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

Accepted Answer

A)  Wolffian
B)  Vienna
C)  Existentialists
D)  Hermeneutical

Question 11

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 12

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 13

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

Accepted Answer

A)  Logical positivism
B)  Existentialist
C)  Phenomenologist
D)  Positivist

Question 14

Pragmatism rejects --------

Accepted Answer

A)  Abstraction
B)  Action
C)  Facts
D)  concreteness

Question 15

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

Accepted Answer

A)  Russell
B)  Tarski
C)  Sartre
D)  Carnap

Question 16

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

Accepted Answer

A)  Compte
B)  Peirce
C)  Dewey
D)  Jeremy Bentham

Exam 5: Philosophy and Philosophers

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