1. The founder of phenomenological movement is ---------------
Correct : A. husserl
2. Brentano belongs to ------ movement
Correct : D. phenomenologist
3. Ideas: A General Introduction to Pure Phenomenology is a work o
Correct : B. husserl
4. The task of phenomenology is to study ---
Correct : D. consciousness
5. The phenomenological reduction is by -------
Correct : A. husserl
6. Transcendental phenomenology, according to Husserl, was the study of -------
Correct : C. transcendental consciousness
7. --------- subscribes to slogan “To the things themselves.”
Correct : A. husserl
8. Which philosophy is emphasizing the study of consciousness by the method of reduction
Correct : B. phenomenology
9. Who wrote the work Logical Investigations?
Correct : D. husserl
10. Who was the first to employ the term ‘phenomenology?
Correct : C. lambert
11. Descriptive psychology and had its origins in the project of -------
Correct : A. brentano.
12. Whose conviction that philosophy is a rigorous science?
Correct : D. husserl
13. phenomenology emphasizes the concept of ------
Correct : A. self-evidence
14. Brentano contrasts empirical psychology with ---------
Correct : C. genetic psychology
15. ------- is a concept in phenomenology borrowed from Brentano
Correct : A. intentionality
16. Who laid great stress on phenomenology’s principle of presuppositionlessness in
Phenomenology?
Correct : D. husserl
17. Which of the following is true to Husserl?
Correct : D. all are true
18. -------- meant that all scientific, philosophical, cultural, and everyday assumptions had
to be put aside.
Correct : B. bracketing
19. Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint is the work of --------
Correct : A. brentano
20. Who contrasts empirical psychology with genetic psychology?
Correct : C. brentano
21. Cartesian Meditations is the famous work of ---------
Correct : D. husserl
22. --------------is the doctrine that every mental act is related to some object.
Correct : B. intentionality
23. Husserl as a transcendental philosopher deferrers from-------. (a) Descartes (b) Socrates (c) Aristotle (d) Kant
29. Who distinguished between phenomena and noumena ?
Correct : D. berkeley
24. Whose transcendental philosophy is known as transcendental phenomenology?
Correct : B. husserl
25. ----- reduction brackets the question of existence and attempts to focus on the essence.
Correct : A. eidetic
26. According to Kierkegaard, truth is--------. (a) Subjectivity (b) God (c) Transcendental (d) Particular
34. Who said that “existence precedes essence”?
Correct : A. husserl
27. Being and Time is the work of --------. (a) Nietzsche (b) Plato (c) Heidegger (d) Sartre
36. Who said that "God is dead"?
Correct : C. sartre
28. ---- philosophers give importance to the term existence?
Correct : A. existentialists
29. Existentialism is a philosophical -----------. (a) Idealism (b) Movement (c) Pragmatics (d) Science
39 Existentialism emphasizing individual existence, freedom, and ----
Correct : B. religion
30. Who is regarded as the founder of modern existentialism?
Correct : C. kierkegaard
31. Who claimed the word nausea for the individual's recognition
Correct : B. sartre
32. One of the following is an atheist existentialist
Correct : D. sartre
33. Who wrote the book Thus Spake Zarathustra ?
Correct : A. nietzsche
34. Being and Time is the work of -------. (a) Sartre (b) Husserl (c) Heidegger (d) Descartes
46 According to Heidegger, Dasein means --------
Correct : C. being- that
35. In Heidegger the fundamental ontology means the study of -----
Correct : A. being
36. Being and Nothingness is the work of --------
Correct : B. sartre
37. “Man is condemned to be free”, is the statement of ----
Correct : C. sartre
38. Sartre's philosophy is explicitly ------and pessimistic
Correct : D. atheistic
39. Heidegger is an ------------- philosopher.
Correct : A. agnostic
40. Sartre tried to reconcile existentialist concepts with a ----------- analysis of society
and history.
Correct : B. marxist
41. Nietzsche is an ------- existentialist philosopher.
Correct : A. atheistic
42. A number of existentialist philosophers used --------- to convey their thought.
Correct : C. literary forms
43. Existentialism is --------- century philosophical movement.
Correct : B. 20th
44. All existentialists have followed --------in stressing the importance
of individual action in deciding questions of both morality and truth
Correct : D. Kierkegaard
45. Existentialists have argued that no objective and ------ principles can be found for
moral decisions.
Correct : A. Rational
46. ------ who claimed to have worked out a total rational understanding of
humanity and history.
Correct : A. Hegel
47. All the existentialist thinkers suggest major themes and stress on
concrete ----- existence.
Correct : C. individual
48. Logical positivism is a philosophy developed by the Vienna Circle during the ------
Correct : C. 1920s
49. The most famous doctrine of logical positivism is its --------- principle
Correct : A. Verifiability
50. A statement which cannot be verified is held to be ……………………………..
Correct : C. meaningless
51. Logical positivists attack on statement of ----------, theology and religion
Correct : D. metaphysics
52. Leading members of the Vienna circle included M. Schlick, R. Carnap, O. Neurath, and
Correct : C. Waismann
53. Who wrote the book Language, Truth and Logic?
Correct : B. A. J. Ayer
54. ------- distinguished between meaningful and meaningless statements?
Correct : A. Logical positivists
55. According to logical positivists, all -------- statements are meaningless.
Correct : C. metaphysical
56. Wittgenstein's famous work is called ------
Correct : D. Tractatus
57. All the statements in mathematics and logic are true by itself and no need of
verification according to the ----------.
Correct : A. Logical positivists
58. The central idea of logical positivism is the Principle of -------------
Correct : D. Verification
59. -------is a prominent figure in the philosophical movement known
as logical positivism or logical empiricism.
Correct : A. Rudolf Carnap
60. The Logical Syntax of Language is the work of ---------.
Correct : B. Rudolf Carnap
61. The major issue of language of philosophy is the relationships between language and --
Correct : B. world
62. An influential type of philosophy of language developed out of ----- generative grammar.
Correct : D. Chomsky
63. ------- is a central figure in the philosophy of language.
Correct : B. Wittgenstein
64. The business of --------includes questions about the meanings of
subject expressions like the present king of France is bald.
Correct : C. semantics
65. In the The Logical Syntax of Language, Carnap discussed -----------.
Correct : A. Logical syntax
66. In Logical Syntax of Language, Carnap accepted Tarski’s
------------techniques,
Correct : C. semantical
67. The central program of Carnap’s Logical Syntax of Language is the notion
of ------------- framework.
Correct : D. linguistic
68. Meinong claimed to have discovered a new a priori science, the theory of-------
Correct : C. objects
69. Who made the distinction between objects may either exist (such as physical objects)
or subsist(such as mathematical entities).
Correct : B. Meinong
70. On the Theory of Objects and Psychology is the work of --------------
Correct : A. Meinong
71. Every object is independent of its being. Some exist and others (for e g., golden mountains) do not exist is the philosophy of ------
Correct : B. Meinong
72. -------- stated that object as round square have no type of being at all, they are
homeless objects, to be found not even in heaven.
Correct : D. Meinong
73. According to --------, the two statements the round square is round and the mountain
I am thinking of is golden are true statements about nonexistent objects
Correct : C. Meinong,
74. Who accepted Brentano's thesis of the intentionality of the mental but modified it
in a realistic direction, distinguishing between the content and object of a mental act?
Correct : B. Husserl
75. Who derives the term 'theory of objects' which he preferred as 'metaphysics' and
'ontology'?
Correct : B. Meinong
76. The property of objects corresponding to the truth of judgments ,according to
Meinong is -----
Correct : D. factuality
77. -------- 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
Correct : A. Pragmatism
78. Peirce developed pragmatism as a theory of meaning in particular, the meaning of
concepts used in ----------.
Correct : B. Science
79. Logical positivists, who have been influenced by Peirce, believed that
truth is closed to --------- .
Correct : C. facts
80. Logical positivists emphasize the importance of scientific verification, rejecting the
assertion of personal -------- experience
Correct : A. Subjective
81. Dewey’s philosophy can be described as a version of philosophical ---------
Correct : D. naturalism
82. The pragmatic traditions were revitalized in the 1980s by American philosopher -----
Correct : C. Richard Rorty
83. ------------ defends social experimentation as a means of improving society, and accepts
pluralism and rejects dead dogmas.
Correct : B. pragmatism
84. ------- never published books in his lifetime. But his greatest contributions were in the
field of mathematical logic in many ways.
Correct : C. Peirce
85. Peirce’s --------- was first elaborated in a series of illustrations of the Logic of
Science in the Popular Science Monthly in 1877.
Correct : D. Pragmatism
86. Peirce acknowledges pragmatism is a kind of --------.
Correct : C. positivism
87. The role of the pragmatic maxim is to reveal that almost every proposition of
ontological metaphysics…………..
Correct : B. impossible
88. Peirce says that in order to grasp a term need ----- aspects of understanding .
Correct : A. Threefold
89. Peirce states his objection to the ------- theory by labeling it a
transcendental account of truth
Correct : B. coherence
90. Who held the metaphysical perspective of Pragmatism and also made the distinction
between science and metaphysics?
Correct : D. James
91. Truth and falsity apply not to objects but only to our ideas of objects. Our ideas of objects are mutable in the sense that we can modify ideas or replace one idea by
another. Who stated the above statement?
Correct : A. James
92. --------became actively interested in the reform of educational theory and practice.
Correct : C. Dewey
93. Dewey's own version of pragmatism was called ----------
Correct : D. instrumentalism
94. Dewey says that the problem must be defined before you can reach a
Solution and need ------ steps for solving problems.
Correct : A. Five
95. Dewey insists that truth is -------- of thought to existence .
Correct : C. correspondence
96. --------- is a system of philosophy based on experience and empirical knowledge of
natural phenomena. They regarded metaphysics and theology is inadequate and imperfect systems of knowledge.
Correct : B. Positivism
97. Compte reveals a law of -------- stages that govern human development and he
analyzed these stages in his major work.
Correct : B. three
98. According to Comte the first stage is called ----------
Correct : C. teliological
99. Matter is known as our sensations of colour, figure, hardness and the like is the
philosophy of ------
Correct : A. pragmatism
100. ---------- is the twentieth century philosophy .