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Who among the following are said to be pragmatic philosophers?
A)
One who give importance to practical side
B)
One who give importance to ideology
C)
One who give importance to reason
D)
One who give importance to Kant's enlightenment theory
Answer & Solution
Answer: Option
A
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List-I List-II
a. Nietzsche
1. How to make our ideas clear
b. William James
2. The will to power
c. GCS Pierce
3. Logical investigation
d. Husserl
4. The making of truth
A)
a-1, b-3, c-2, d-4
B)
a-2, b-1, c-3, d-4
C)
a-2, b-4, c-1, d-3
D)
a-2, b-4, c-3, d-1
Answer & Solution
Answer: Option
C
33
What is most important for William James?
A)
Study of religion
B)
Vanety of religion
C)
Religious experience
D)
Secondary religion
Answer & Solution
Answer: Option
C
34
What the face of other reveals?
A)
Itself
B)
Other
C)
Nothing
D)
Everything
Answer & Solution
Answer: Option
A
35
William James finds . . . . . . . . pragmatically preferable to monism.
A)
Pluralism
B)
Realism
C)
Empiricism
D)
None of these
Answer & Solution
Answer: Option
A
36
Which of the following conditions is unacceptable to Donald Davidson with regard to two people having benefits about the same external object?
A)
Belief about oneself
B)
Belief about other people
C)
Belief about Ianguage rules
D)
Belief about the world come into existence jointly
Answer & Solution
Answer: Option
C
37
Which among the following theories are related to William James?
A)
1 and 2
B)
1, 2 and 3
C)
2, 3 and 4
D)
1, 2, 3 and 4
Answer & Solution
Answer: Option
D
38
According to Richard Rorty, what is the perfect idea of knowledge?
A)
Mirror of self
B)
Mirror of other
C)
Mirror of nature
D)
None of these
Answer & Solution
Answer: Option
C
39
According to Richard Rorty, in one sense, rational means methodical, but in another sense, it means something like
A)
scientific
B)
objective
C)
lawful
D)
civilised
Answer & Solution
Answer: Option
B
40
Pragmatism is characterised by . . . . . . . . as "a new name for same old ways of thinking".
A)
CS Pierce
B)
William James
C)
John Dewey
D)
Levinas
Answer & Solution
Answer: Option
B
