Contemporary Western Philosophy | Set 2
1. John Dewey preferred to call his own philosophy as -----
2. Essays in Experimental Logic is the work of ----------
3. Pragmatism rejects --------
4. --------- French philosopher and the founder of positivism.
5. Wittgenstein’s Tractatus .influenced ---------- PhilosophY.
6. Pseudo-words or pseudo statements violating the rules of -------- positivism
7. Who said that science is not about verifying hypotheses or theories, but falsifying them?
8. Who was not a major proponent of logical positivism in the Vienna Circle?
9. The positivists today have rejected the so-called-------- school of philosophy prefer to
call themselves logical empiricists.
10. The founder of legal positivism was --------
11. The philosophy of the Vienna Circle is broadly equivalent to ------
12. -------- divides all meaningful propositions into two categories: analytic
propositions and synthetic propositions.
13. Ernst Mach is an ------ philosopher.
14. In the United States, ----- rejected the distinction between analytic and synthetic
propositions that was essential to early analytic philosophy.
15. In philosophy of language, who adapted the theory of truth for formalized languages
to provide a semantic theory of meaning for natural languages?
16. Russell’s important article ----- refers to definite and indefinite descriptions.