Question 1

Which of the following is a symbol?

Accepted Answer

A) road sign for falling rocks 
B) smoke 
C) traffic signals 
D) none of these A

Question 2

Which of the following is a Symbol?

Accepted Answer

A) road sign for falling rocks 
B) smoke 
C) traffic signals 
D) none of these C

Question 3

Words or traffic signals are examples of ---------

Accepted Answer

A) Icon 
B) Index 
C) Symbol 
D) none of these C

Question 4

According to the Tractatus, properly meaningful propositions divided into ------ kinds only

Accepted Answer

A) Two 
B) three 
C) four 
D) five

Question 5

-----------categorises of signs into three main types.

Accepted Answer

A) C S Pierce 
B) Sassure 
C) Heidegger 
D) Gadamer

Question 6

History plays an important part in --------------- philosophy.

Accepted Answer

A) Continental 
B) analytical 
C) Positivist 
D) classical

Question 7

an ------------is associated with its referent.

Accepted Answer

A) Icon 
B) Index 
C) Symbol 
D) none of these

Question 8

------------- is the author of Phenomenology of perception.

Accepted Answer

A) MerleauPonty 
B) Heidgger 
C) Gadamer 
D) Habermas

Question 9

An -------------- resembles its referent.

Accepted Answer

A) Icon 
B) Index 
C) Symbol 
D) none of these

Question 10

A road sign for falling rocks is an example of -----------.

Accepted Answer

A) Icon 
B) Index 
C) Symbol 
D) none of these

Question 11

A ---------- is related to its referent only by convention

Accepted Answer

A) Icon 
B) Index 
C) Symbol 
D) none of these

Question 12

------------ is the author ofProblems of Philosophy.

Accepted Answer

A) Russell 
B) Moorre 
C) Wittgenstein 
D) none of these

Question 13

------------ is the most important novel by Sartre.

Accepted Answer

A) Being and Time 
B) Nausea 
C) Truth and Method 
D) Ideas.

Question 14

-------- defined a sign as "something which stands to somebody for something,.

Accepted Answer

A) C S Pierce 
B) Sassure 
C) Heidegger 
D) Gadamer

Question 15

smoke is an ------------ sign of fire .

Accepted Answer

A) Icon 
B) Index 
C) Symbol 
D) none of these

Question 16

According to Tractatus ------------ propositions which represented, or 'pictured', reality .

Accepted Answer

A) Factual 
B) Analytcal 
C) Symbolic 
D) none of these

Exam 11: Philosophy and Semiotics: Exploring Meaning and Representation

Which of the following is a symbol?