Consider the following statements with reference to Pragmatism of CS Pierce and mark the correct answer:
A. Only (1) is true
B. (1) and (2) is true
C. Only (2) is true
D. (2) and (3) are true
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According to Richard Rorty, we would be better off without the traditional distinctions between
A. belief and opinion
B. solidarity and inquiry
C. knowledge and justified true belief
D. knowledge and opinion
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What John Dewey tries to show in his 'Theory of Inquiry'?
A. Defination of pragmatism
B. Ways of doing inquiry
C. Defination of inquiry
D. Distinction between knowledge and inquiry
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What Levinas' theory of ethics as foist philosophy taught us?
A. Respect for self
B. Respect for ethics
C. Respect for others
D. Respect for religion
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What is interaction in John Dewey's philosophy?
A. Important of past and present
B. Looking forward for future
C. Current situation influence on experiences
D. Educational progress
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Richard Rorty argues that the pragmatist holds a view that could be described as
A. objectivist
B. ethnocentric
C. self-refuting
D. equivocal
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Through phenomenological method of Levinas, what we will be getting as an end result?
A. Emmancipation
B. Teleological approach towards God
C. Radical transcendence of God
D. Ontological and cosmological proof
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Consider the following statements with regard to John Dewey.
A. Only 1
B. Only 2
C. 1 and 2
D. All of these
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What is the implicit nature of faith refers to according to John Dewey?
A. Faith towards religion
B. Faith towards experience
C. Faith towards mankind
D. None of the above
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How do we see the influence of pragmatism on John Dewey's views on education?
A. In the idea that students must interact with their environment in order to adapt and learn
B. In the idea that education must accept the limits of what is economically feasible
C. In the idea that education policies must accept the limits of what can be covered in a given day of schooling
D. In the idea that students must interact primarily with books in order to adapt and learn
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William James favours
A. objective life
B. moral life
C. useless life
D. subjective life
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The face of other, according to Emmanuel Levinas is the negation of self.
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According to Richard Rorty, why epistemology is important?
A. To legitimate philosophical reflection on itself
B. To legitimate our claim to knowledge of what is real
C. Both A and B
D. Neither A nor B
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Consider the following statements in the light of Pragmatism and mark the correct answer.
A. Only (1) is true
B. (1) and (2) are true
C. (2) and (3) are true
D. (1) and (3) are true
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Pragmatism means
A. 1 and 2
B. 1 and 3
C. 2 and 3
D. 3 and 4
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William James, CS Pierce and John Dewey are
A. rationalist philosophers
B. intuitionalist philosophers
C. pragmatic philosophers
D. None of the above
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What is said about the idea of infinity in Levinas' theory?
A. Idea of infinity is experiential
B. Idea of infinity is theoretical
C. Idea of infinity is practical
D. Idea of infinity is moral
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According to William James, pragmatism asks
A. what concrete difference an idea's being true will make in one's
B. how the idea matches up to reality
C. what other idea it coheres with
D. why bother with truth
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What is the criteria for any pragmatic statement to be true?
A. When the statement have experiential evidence
B. When the statement have practical efficiency
C. When a statement have practical efficiency
D. When a statement is conclusively valid
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What is the most important insight for pragmatic school?
A. Knowledge is power
B. Signs are important
C. Words are tools
D. Experience is prior to reason
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