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Contemporary Western Philosophy | Set 2

1. John Dewey preferred to call his own philosophy as -----

Correct : C. Experimentalism

2. Essays in Experimental Logic is the work of ----------

Correct : B. Dewey

3. Pragmatism rejects --------

Correct : A. Abstraction

4. --------- French philosopher and the founder of positivism.

Correct : B. Comte

5. Wittgenstein’s Tractatus .influenced ---------- PhilosophY.

Correct : C. Logical positivists

6. Pseudo-words or pseudo statements violating the rules of -------- positivism

Correct : B. Logical

7. Who said that science is not about verifying hypotheses or theories, but falsifying them?

Correct : D. Popper

8. Who was not a major proponent of logical positivism in the Vienna Circle?

Correct : A. Meinong

9. The positivists today have rejected the so-called-------- school of philosophy prefer to call themselves logical empiricists.

Correct : B. Vienna

10. The founder of legal positivism was --------

Correct : D. Jeremy Bentham

11. The philosophy of the Vienna Circle is broadly equivalent to ------

Correct : C. logical positivism.

12. -------- divides all meaningful propositions into two categories: analytic propositions and synthetic propositions.

Correct : A. Logical positivism

13. Ernst Mach is an ------ philosopher.

Correct : B. Empiricist

14. In the United States, ----- rejected the distinction between analytic and synthetic propositions that was essential to early analytic philosophy.

Correct : C. Quine

15. In philosophy of language, who adapted the theory of truth for formalized languages to provide a semantic theory of meaning for natural languages?

Correct : B. Tarski

16. Russell’s important article ----- refers to definite and indefinite descriptions.

Correct : A. On Denoting