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• What do you mean by a Pragmatic paradox?
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  A statement which although self-consistent, is such that the act of making it shows it to be contradictory

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  A statement which inconsistent and the making act shows it as false

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  A statement which, although self-consistent, is such that the act of making it shows it to be false

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  None of these
• According to Richard Rorty, what is taken to be the primary reference point of his theory?
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  Logic

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  Natural Science

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  Science

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  Metaphysics
• Select the correct statement in the context of pragmatism.<br>1. The meaning of 'Meaning' is the clarity of apprehension.<br>2. Meaning emerges out of experimental phenomenon.<br>3. Mind is an ontological entity.<br>4. Knowledge is an activity.
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  All the statement are true

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  1, 2, 3 are true, 4 is false

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  1, 2, 4 are true, 3 is false

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  2, 3, 4 are true 1 is false
• What is the focus for John Dewey, when he deals with the word like 'common'?
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  Individual and religion

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  Individual who are religious

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  Individual who undergo these experiences

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  Individual influences others
• Who wrote this book 'Essays on Radical Empiricism'?
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  William James

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  John Dewey

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  CS Pierce

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  Richard Rorty
• What is continuity, according to John Dewey?
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  Having meaningful experiences

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  The way experiences influence the future

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  The way we learn

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  A theory that tries into traditional education
• Who is referred as 'American Psychologist'?
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  John Dewey

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  William James

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  Peter James

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  Immanuel Levinas
• In the light of William James, which of the following is not a correct statement?
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  Life demands a response-'forced options'

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  False ideas are those that we cannot verify

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  Theories are only man-made language, in which we write our reports of nature

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  True ideas cannot be validated
• William James argues that the validation of an idea refers to
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  the idea's deductive quality

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  the idea's practical consequences

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  the idea's eternal truth value

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  the knower's states of mind
• Who said that "the true is only the expedient in our way of thinking, just as the right is only the expedient in our way of behaving".?
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  William James

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  John Dewey

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  Both A and B

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  None of these
• What is arrived after the understanding of an idea of infinity?
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  Religious knowledge

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  Subjectivity

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  Objectivity

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  Experience
• Consider given Assertion (A) and Reason (R) and then mark the correct option as given below.<br>Assertion (A) "The test of truth is its practical consequences".<br>Reason (R) Pragmatism determines the truth or falsity of propositions according as they do or do not fulfil our purpose.
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  Both A and R are correct and R provides a correct explanation of A

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  Both A and R are false

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  A is true and R is false and R does not provide correct explanation of A

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  A is false and R is true and R provides incorrect explanation of A
• Edifying philosophers try to edify the reader with alternative concepts that have nothing to do with 'truth'? Is it true with respect to Rorty's theory of philosophy and Mirror of Nature?
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  Correct

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  Incorrect
• What is the major distinction pointed by Richard Rorty in his philosophy and the Mirror of Nature?
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  Systematic philosophy

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  Edyfying philosophy

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  Both A and B

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  Neither A nor B
• Is it true that experience are true religion?
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  Yes

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  No
• Rorty's critique of phenomenalism is based on his rejection of the presupposition that knowledge requires a foundation in either innate, ideas on sense data. Instead of thinking of knowledge as a relation between a belief and a fact about the world, we should think of knowledge as a relation between
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  what we think we know and what we actually do know

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  a belief and the social, historical arguments given to support it

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  our sense perceptions and our innate ideas

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  the way the mind organises experiences according to the surface grammar of language and the way that language itself is structured by the deep grammar of neurology
• What leads to the powerful educational experience according to John Dewey?
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  Continuity

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  Interaction

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  Both A and B

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  Neither A nor B
• Richard Rorty believes that for the notion of objectivity, we should substitute the idea of
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  the rationality of Science

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  theory-independent inquiry

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  intersubjective agreement

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  unfuzzy standards
• Which one of the following is not written by William James?
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  The Principles of Psychology

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  Essays on Radical Empiricism

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  The Varieties of Religious Experience

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  The Principles of Pragmatism
• According to which one of the following Western philosophers "Truth is a subjective condition, not an objective one".
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  Kierkegaard

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  Hume

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  Kant

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  William James
• The terminology 'pragmatics' became established in 1930s by
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  Christian Wolf

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  Richard Rorty

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  John Dewey

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  Charles Morris
• Which new dualism, is pointed by John Dewey in his book 'A Common Faith'?
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  Man Vs Wild

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  Man Vs Nature

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  Faith Vs Reason

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  Religion Vs Man
• What is said to be the starting point of morality?
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  Infinite

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  Religion

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  Experience

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  Reason
• Consider the following statements in the context of William James' pragmatism and mark the correct answer:<br>1. Universalist notion of truth is rejected.<br>2. Truth is contextless<br>3. Truth happens to an idea
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  Only (1) is true

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  (1) and (3) are true

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  Only (2) is true

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  (2) and (3) are true
• What is the aim of the book 'The Varieties of Religious Experience : A Study in Human Nature'?
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  Survey of culture

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  Survey of religious

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  Survey of various religious experience

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  All of the above
• What is experiental education?
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  An educational philosophy based on the idea that learning occurs through experience

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  A type of Science experiment

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  Reflecting on your day

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  An educational experience in a classroom
• . . . . . . . . is an attempt to constitute a precise logical theory of concepts, of judgements and influence in their various forms by considering primarily how thought functions in the experimental determination of future consequence.
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  Pragmatism

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  Existentialism

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  Instrumentalism

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  Positivism
• Who said that "Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself'?
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  John Dewey

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  CS Pierce

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  William James

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  Rabindranath Tagore
• Which statement is true in the light of pragmatism?<br>1. Both William James and CS Pierce agree completely on the method of pragmatism.<br>2. William James went beyond Pierce in presenting a moral theory on pragmatismistic grounds.<br>3. CS Pierce called his own theory as pragmaticism.
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  Only 1 is true

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  1 and 2 are true

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  2 and 3 are true

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  1 and 3 are true
• Richard Rorty gave the Critique of Representationalism. Is the given statement true?
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  Yes

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  No