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Recent Trends in Western Philosophy | Set 2

1. ------------- proposes a picture theory of language.

Correct : B. Wittgenstein

2. In Tractatus Wittgenstein proposed a -------------- theory of language.

Correct : B. picture theory

3. ----------- is the author of Philosophical Investigations.

Correct : B. Wittgenstein

4. In Philosophical Investigations Wittgenstein proposed a -------------- theory of language.

Correct : A. use theory

5. ----------- is the author of The Blue and Brown Books.

Correct : B. Wittgenstein

6. ----------------‘s theory that it is only by picturing reality that propositions acquire sense, or meaning.

Correct : B. Wittgenstein

7. According to ----------------Metaphysical statements are not empirically verifiable and are thus meaningless.

Correct : A. Logical positivism

8. According to -----------------, there are only two sources of knowledge: logical reasoning and empirical experience.

Correct : A. Logical positivism

9. According to --------------------synthetic a priori does not exist.

Correct : A. Logical positivism

10. According to ------------------Philosophy is the activity by means of which the meaning of statements is clarified and defined.

Correct : D. Schlick

11. ----------- statements are a priori and their truth is based on the rules of the language.

Correct : A. analytic

12. Synthetic statements depend on experience, and their truth can be acknowledged only by means of the experience.

Correct : B. synthetic

13. ------------- has proposed a hermeneutic phenomenology.

Correct : A. Heidegger

14. ---------- was originally the theory and method of interpreting the Bible and other difficult texts.

Correct : B. Hermeneutics

15. ------------ extended Hermeneutics to the interpretation of all human acts and products, including history and the interpretation of a human life

Correct : A. Dilthey

16. According to ----------human being is the being that itself understands and interprets.

Correct : A. Heidegger

17. ---------- is the collection of rules that govern how words are assembled into meaningful sentences.

Correct : A. Syntax

18. --------------considers the meaning of words themselves and the meaning of word phrases.

Correct : B. Semantics

19. -------- is the study of how language is used

Correct : C. Pragmatics

20. --------- is the study of signs.

Correct : D. Semiotics

21. ------- is the founder of Semiotics.

Correct : A. Sassure

22. -------------saw linguistics as a branch of 'semiology.'

Correct : A. Sassure

23. ---------- refers to the system of rules and conventions which is independent of, and preexists, individual users.

Correct : A. Langue

24. -------- refers to its use in particular instances.

Correct : B. parole

25. ----------- is the sound associated with or image of something (e.g., a tree).

Correct : A. Signifier

26. -----------is the idea or concept of the thing (e.g., the idea of a tree),

Correct : B. signified

27. --------is the object that combines the signifier and the signified into a meaningful unit.

Correct : C. sign

28. A------- must have both a signifier and a signified.

Correct : A. Sign

29. Accrording to Sassure the relation between ---------- and signified is arbitrary.

Correct : B. Signifier

30. According to ---------- the 'value' of a sign depends on its relations with other signs within the system.

Correct : A. Sassure

31. According to ------- language plays a crucial role in 'constructing reality'.

Correct : A. Sassure

32. ------------- is the study of structures of consciousness as experienced from the firstperson point of view.

Correct : A. Phenomenology

33. ----------- is the study of appearances of things, or things as they appear in our experience.

Correct : A. Phenomenology

34. For -----------, phenomenology integrates a kind of psychology with a kind of logic.

Correct : A. Husserl

35. Husserl was the student of -----------

Correct : A. Brentano

36. Husserl is accused of ----------- by Frege.

Correct : B. psychologism

37. -------- is the author of Psychology From an Empirical Standpoint.

Correct : A. Brentano

38. ---------------- is the author of Philosophy of Arithmetic.

Correct : A. Husserl

39. ---------------- is the author of Philosophical Investigations.

Correct : A. Husserl

40. ------------ is the author of the essay ‘Philosophy as rigorous science’.

Correct : A. Husserl

41. Husserl opposes ------------

Correct : A. naturalism

42. ----- attitude is the ordinary stance with respect to the world that takes for granted the givenness of the objects.

Correct : A. natural

43. --------------- concentrates on what is given in experience.

Correct : C. phenomenology

44. Husserl developed a ------------ phenomenology.

Correct : A. Transcendental

45. The term phenomenology was first used by ---------------.

Correct : D. H D Lambert

46. According to Husserl ---------- is not the capacity of the consciousness but its very structure.

Correct : A. Intentionality

47. ---------- is a lived experience.

Correct : A. Intentionality

48. According to ---------------- meaning is not linguistic but intentional.

Correct : B. Husserl

49. --------- distinguishes between natural attitude and phenomenological attitude.

Correct : B. Husserl

50. ___________ thought underwent a transcendental turn.

Correct : B. Husserl

51. The ------------ reduction is a suspension of judgments about the existence or nonexistence of the external world.

Correct : A. Phenomenological

52. ------------ reduction tries is to identify the basic components of phenomena.

Correct : C. eidetic

53. Husserl called descriptive analysis ---------- phenomenology

Correct : A. Static

54. The ------------- attitude is a turn towards the source of world’s meaning.

Correct : A. Phenomenological

55. According to ----------- language is not the original bearer of meaning.

Correct : B. Husserl

56. ----------- consider that he has widened the sphere of meaning to include all intentional acts.

Correct : B. Husserl

57. Unlike ---------- Husserl did not differentiate between noumenal and phenomenal realm.

Correct : B. Kant

58. The -------- is a naïve acceptance of reality as a domain of facts independent of consciousness.

Correct : B. natural

59. The ----------- attitude is a turn towards world’s meaning .

Correct : A. Phenomenological

60. ---------- discloses the world as a correlative of transcendental subjectivity.

Correct : A. Phenomenology

61. ------------ are the pre given context in which we find ourselves .

Correct : A. Horizon

62. ----------- is the author of Being and Time .

Correct : B. Heidegger

63. The central theme of ---------'s philosophy is the question concerning the meaning of being .

Correct : B. Heidegger

64. ----------- attempted to access being (Sein) by means of phenomenological analysis of human existence (Dasein) in respect to its temporal and historical character.

Correct : A. Heidegger

65. The central problem for ------------ is the problem of constitution: How is the world as phenomenon constituted in our consciousness?

Correct : A. Husserl

66. ----------- asks: “What is the mode of being of that being in which the world constitutes itself?”

Correct : A. Heidegger

67. Heidegger’s attempt to overcome western metaphysics is influenced by -------.

Correct : A. Husserl

68. The being of Dasein is made visible as --------

Correct : A. Care

69. Dasein’s primordial relationship to others is one of -----------.

Correct : D. Solicitude

70. ---------- is presuppositionless science of consciousness.

Correct : A. Phenomenology

71. ----------- is essentially temporal.

Correct : A. Dasein

72. The temporal character of ------------- is derived from the tripartite ontological structure: existence, thrownness, and fallenness .

Correct : A. Dasein

73. For --------- an essence is that which holds throughout all perceptions of an object.

Correct : A. Husserl

74. ---------- is critical of the ontotheological conception of substance.

Correct : A. Heidegger

75. The task of --------------- is to distinguish between being and entities.

Correct : A. Ontology

76. According to phenomenology is subservient to fundamental ontology .

Correct : A. Heidegger

77. --------- claims that existence is the only essence that consciousness has.

Correct : A. Sartre

78. --------------- is the founder of phenomenology.

Correct : B. Husserl

79. According to Frege Husserl was a proponent of -------------.

Correct : D. psychologism

80. According to ---------“A human being is absolutely free and absolutely responsible. Anguish is the result.”

Correct : A. Sartre

81. According to -----------“Existence precedes essence.” 7

Correct : A. Sartre

82. According to--------- man is condemned to be free.

Correct : A. Sartre

83. ----------- essential description of consciousness is simply that consciousness is always consciousness of something, but by itself is nothing.

Correct : A. Sartre

84. The facticity of freedom according to ------- is the fact that human beings are not free to not be free.

Correct : A. Sartre

85. According to -------------bad faith is our attempt to avoid our own freedom.

Correct : A. Sartre

86. ------------ used the example of understanding a sentence as an example of the circular course of hermeneutic understanding.

Correct : A. Dilthey

87. The --------------- circle is one of the most fundamental and contentious doctrines of hermeneutical theory.

Correct : C. Hermeneutic

88. --------- is the author of Being and Nothingness

Correct : A. Sartre

89. ___________ is a theistic existentialist.

Correct : C. Jaspers

90. --------- defines consciousness in terms of nothingness.

Correct : A. Sartre

91. ------------- is an atheistic existentialist.

Correct : A. Sartre

92. According to ----------- subjective truth cannot be represented with the categories of abstract reason.

Correct : D. Kierkegaard

93. ------------------- is the author of Sickness unto Death.

Correct : D. Kierkegaard

94. Existentialism s a humanism is an article by ---------.

Correct : A. Sartre

95. ------------------- is the author of Either /or

Correct : D. Kierkegaard

96. ‘Existence precedes essence’ is a famous dictum by-------------.

Correct : A. Sartre

97. Kierkegaard was the first person to use existence in a ----------- sense .

Correct : A. Religious

98. Søren Kierkegaard identified ---- possible stages that a person can move through in their lifetime.

Correct : B. 3

99. The main motivation in ------------stage is pleasure.

Correct : A. Aesthetic

100. In the --------- stage we feel responsibilities toward others — both particular others and others in general.

Correct : B. Ethical