Top 150+ Solved Contemporary Western Philosophy MCQ Questions Answer
Q. The property of objects corresponding to the truth of judgments ,according toMeinong is -----
a. Intentionality
b. Ideas
c. Relation
d. factuality
Q. -------- 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
a. Pragmatism
b. Hermeneutics
c. Positivism
d. all are false
Q. Peirce developed pragmatism as a theory of meaning in particular, the meaning ofconcepts used in ----------.
a. Religion
b. Science
c. Ethics
d. Metaphysics
Q. Logical positivists, who have been influenced by Peirce, believed thattruth is closed to --------- .
a. axioms
b. norms
c. facts
d. ideas
Q. Logical positivists emphasize the importance of scientific verification, rejecting theassertion of personal -------- experience
a. Subjective
b. objective
c. empirical
d. factual
Q. Dewey’s philosophy can be described as a version of philosophical ---------
a. formalism
b. idealism
c. absolutism
d. naturalism
Q. The pragmatic traditions were revitalized in the 1980s by American philosopher -----
a. C S Peirce
b. Dewey
c. Richard Rorty
d. Anselm
Q. ------------ defends social experimentation as a means of improving society, and acceptspluralism and rejects dead dogmas.
a. Phenomenology
b. pragmatism
c. Empiricism
d. Absolutism
Q. ------- never published books in his lifetime. But his greatest contributions were in thefield of mathematical logic in many ways.
a. Dewey
b. Compte
c. Peirce
d. James
Q. Peirce’s --------- was first elaborated in a series of illustrations of the Logic ofScience in the Popular Science Monthly in 1877.
a. Axiology
b. Atheism
c. Idealism
d. Pragmatism
Q. Peirce acknowledges pragmatism is a kind of --------.
a. Universal
b. logic
c. positivism
d. innate idea
Q. The role of the pragmatic maxim is to reveal that almost every proposition ofontological metaphysics…………..
a. meaningful
b. impossible
c. possible
d. relative
Q. Peirce says that in order to grasp a term need ----- aspects of understanding .
a. Threefold
b. twofold
c. relative
d. semantic
Q. Peirce states his objection to the ------- theory by labeling it atranscendental account of truth
a. Meinong’s
b. coherence
c. correspondence
d. semantic
Q. Who held the metaphysical perspective of Pragmatism and also made the distinctionbetween science and metaphysics?
a. Compte
b. Peirce
c. Dewey
d. James