Top 150+ Solved Contemporary Western Philosophy MCQ Questions Answer
Q. The major issue of language of philosophy is the relationships between language and --
a. word
b. world
c. thought
d. logic
Q. An influential type of philosophy of language developed out of ----- generative grammar.
a. Husserl
b. A. J .Ayer
c. C S Peirce
d. Chomsky
Q. ------- is a central figure in the philosophy of language.
a. Brentano
b. Wittgenstein
c. Meinong
d. Husserl
Q. The business of --------includes questions about the meanings ofsubject expressions like the present king of France is bald.
a. Idealism
b. dialectics
c. semantics
d. logic
Q. In the The Logical Syntax of Language, Carnap discussed -----------.
a. Logical syntax
b. Phenomenology
c. virtue
d. existentialism
Q. In Logical Syntax of Language, Carnap accepted Tarski’s------------techniques,
a. Logical
b. ethical
c. semantical
d. all are false
Q. The central program of Carnap’s Logical Syntax of Language is the notionof ------------- framework.
a. Ethical
b. pragmatic
c. Existential
d. linguistic
Q. Meinong claimed to have discovered a new a priori science, the theory of-------
a. analytics
b. ideas
c. objects
d. subjects
Q. Who made the distinction between objects may either exist (such as physical objects)or subsist(such as mathematical entities).
a. Hussel
b. Meinong
c. Brentano
d. Sartre
Q. On the Theory of Objects and Psychology is the work of --------------
a. Meinong
b. Sartre
c. Heidegger
d. Brentano
Q. Every object is independent of its being. Some exist and others (for e g., golden mountains) do not exist is the philosophy of ------
a. Heidegger
b. Meinong
c. Husserl
d. C S Peirce
Q. -------- stated that object as round square have no type of being at all, they arehomeless objects, to be found not even in heaven.
a. Frege’s
b. Brentano’s
c. Heidegger’s
d. Meinong
Q. According to --------, the two statements the round square is round and the mountainI am thinking of is golden are true statements about nonexistent objects
a. Sartre
b. Russell
c. Meinong,
d. Plato
Q. Who accepted Brentano's thesis of the intentionality of the mental but modified itin a realistic direction, distinguishing between the content and object of a mental act?
a. Meinong
b. Husserl
c. Carnap
d. A.J Ayer
Q. Who derives the term 'theory of objects' which he preferred as 'metaphysics' and'ontology'?
a. Schlick
b. Meinong
c. Hume
d. Heidegger