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Which view about truth is common to all pragmatists? |
| | A) | Truth is what all investigators will ultimately agree to. |
| | B) | Truth is relative to place, time, and purpose. |
| | C) | Truth is what works for the individual. |
| | D) | Truth is unchanging. |
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What does philosophical analysis attempt to do? |
| | A) | Reduce complex, philosophically puzzling propositions into simpler, less puzzling ones. |
| | B) | Integrate separate, simpler propositions into a more complex, but more complete, whole. |
| | C) | Show that the concept of objective truth leads to unresolvable paradoxes. |
| | D) | Replace object-talk with sense-data talk. |
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What determines the meaning of a proposition, according to the logical positivists? |
| | A) | The intentions of the writer or speaker. |
| | B) | The public definitions of the words involved. |
| | C) | The use to which the proposition is put. |
| | D) | The possible observations that would verify it. |
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According to logical atomism, what does the world ultimately consist of? |
| | A) | Atomic facts |
| | B) | Physical atoms |
| | C) | Immaterial minds |
| | D) | Sense-data |
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Which best expresses phenomenalism as a metaphysical theory? |
| | A) | Physical objects don't exist, just sense-data. |
| | B) | Sense-data don't exist, just physical objects. |
| | C) | Sense-data are caused by, but not identical with, physical objects. |
| | D) | Physical objects just are sense-data. |
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According to the epistemological foundationalist, when is a belief knowledge? |
| | A) | When it is clearly and distinctly true. |
| | B) | When it logically follows from other beliefs that cannot be doubted. |
| | C) | When it follows from other beliefs that are true. |
| | D) | When it meets the current standards of rationality of the group to which the person belongs. |
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Antirepresentationalists like Richard Rorty always deny this claim. |
| | A) | True beliefs somehow picture or mirror reality. |
| | B) | True beliefs are those which hang together in a coherent fashion. |
| | C) | True beliefs are those that most members of our group consent to. |
| | D) | True beliefs are those that work for the individual. |
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Which of the following is a universal? |
| | A) | Barack Obama |
| | B) | The U.S. Constitution |
| | C) | cell phone |
| | D) | The Best Picture of 2014 |
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Which philosopher is associated with the idea of a language game? |
| | A) | Russell |
| | B) | Rorty |
| | C) | Dewey |
| | D) | Wittgenstein |
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Necessary truths are |
| | A) | True statements that could have been false |
| | B) | True statements that could not have been false |
| | C) | Statements known to be true independently of experience |
| | D) | Statements known to be true through experience |
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Which of the following is an ontological issue? |
| | A) | Whether selves exist |
| | B) | Whether torture is ever justified |
| | C) | Whether cars are made of steel |
| | D) | Whether a democracy usually leads to tyranny |
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Which is not true of Richard Rorty? |
| | A) | He describes himself as a liberal ironist. |
| | B) | He uses American pragmatism as a medium to combine liberalism with Continental literature and philosophy. |
| | C) | He believes in necessary starting points for rational inquiry. |
| | D) | He maintains that we can never step outside the perspective of our own culture and its constraints on inquiry to find an objective point of view. |
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Who is most likely to have written this? "There is no method for knowing when one has reached the truth, or when one is closer than ever before." |
| | A) | Jacques Derrida |
| | B) | Michel Foucault |
| | C) | Richard Rorty |
| | D) | Jürgen Habermas |
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Who is most likely to have written this? "The relation of technical progress and social life-world and the translation of scientific information into practical consciousness is not an affair of private cultivation." |
| | A) | Michel Foucault |
| | B) | Ferdinand de Saussure |
| | C) | Jürgen Habermas |
| | D) | Richard Rorty |
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