Top 150+ Solved Contemporary Western Philosophy MCQ Questions Answer
Q. Pseudo-words or pseudo statements violating the rules of -------- positivism
a. Legel
b. Logical
c. Comte’s
d. All are false
Q. Who said that science is not about verifying hypotheses or theories, but falsifying them?
a. Carnap
b. Sartre
c. Husserl
d. Popper
Q. Who was not a major proponent of logical positivism in the Vienna Circle?
a. Meinong
b. Carnap
c. Wittgenstein
d. A J Ayer
Q. The positivists today have rejected the so-called-------- school of philosophy prefer tocall themselves logical empiricists.
a. Wolffian
b. Vienna
c. Existentialists
d. Hermeneutical
Q. The philosophy of the Vienna Circle is broadly equivalent to ------
a. James
b. Dewey
c. logical positivism.
d. Carnap
Q. -------- divides all meaningful propositions into two categories: analyticpropositions and synthetic propositions.
a. Logical positivism
b. Existentialist
c. Phenomenologist
d. Positivist
Q. In the United States, ----- rejected the distinction between analytic and syntheticpropositions that was essential to early analytic philosophy.
a. Sartre
b. Russell
c. Quine
d. Carnap
Q. In philosophy of language, who adapted the theory of truth for formalized languagesto provide a semantic theory of meaning for natural languages?
a. Russell
b. Tarski
c. Sartre
d. Carnap
Q. Russell’s important article ----- refers to definite and indefinite descriptions.
a. On Denoting
b. Logical Atomism
c. Mathematica
d. All are false