Top 150+ Solved Contemporary Western Philosophy MCQ Questions Answer
Q. ------ who claimed to have worked out a total rational understanding ofhumanity and history.
a. Hegel
b. Nietzsche
c. Husserl
d. Kierkegaard
Q. All the existentialist thinkers suggest major themes and stress onconcrete ----- existence.
a. ontological
b. metaphysical
c. individual
d. theological
Q. Logical positivism is a philosophy developed by the Vienna Circle during the ------
a. 1950s
b. 1980s
c. 1920s
d. 1960s
Q. The most famous doctrine of logical positivism is its --------- principle
a. Verifiability
b. metaphysical
c. Ethical
d. all are false
Q. A statement which cannot be verified is held to be ……………………………..
a. True
b. valid
c. meaningless
d. idealist
Q. Logical positivists attack on statement of ----------, theology and religion
a. logical
b. verifiable
c. empirical
d. metaphysics
Q. Leading members of the Vienna circle included M. Schlick, R. Carnap, O. Neurath, and
a. Berkeley
b. Descartes
c. Waismann
d. Husserl
Q. ------- distinguished between meaningful and meaningless statements?
a. Logical positivists
b. Husserl
c. Heidegger
d. Sartre
Q. According to logical positivists, all -------- statements are meaningless.
a. logical
b. mathematical
c. metaphysical
d. empirical
Q. Wittgenstein's famous work is called ------
a. Language, Truth and Logic
b. Logic
c. Investigation
d. Tractatus
Q. All the statements in mathematics and logic are true by itself and no need ofverification according to the ----------.
a. Logical positivists
b. Pragmatism
c. phenomenology
d. Heidegger
Q. The central idea of logical positivism is the Principle of -------------
a. metaphysics
b. language
c. epistemology
d. Verification
Q. -------is a prominent figure in the philosophical movement knownas logical positivism or logical empiricism.
a. Rudolf Carnap
b. John Dewey
c. Sartre
d. Locke
Q. The Logical Syntax of Language is the work of ---------.
a. C S Peirce
b. Rudolf Carnap
c. A. J .Ayer
d. Husserl