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This section includes 175 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your Uncategorized topics knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
| 1. |
Radicalizing and challenging position of structuralism is known as ? |
| A. | post modernism |
| B. | post structuralism |
| C. | hedonism |
| D. | utilitarianism |
| Answer» C. hedonism | |
| 2. |
By whom the foundation of structuralism had been laid? |
| A. | camus |
| B. | sartre |
| C. | ferdinand de saussure |
| D. | jaques lacan |
| Answer» D. jaques lacan | |
| 3. |
Structuralism originated and developed in which place? |
| A. | germany |
| B. | france |
| C. | london |
| D. | india |
| Answer» C. london | |
| 4. |
Eidetic Reduction is a ? |
| A. | negative aspect |
| B. | positive aspect |
| C. | both (a) and (b) |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» C. both (a) and (b) | |
| 5. |
The main proponents of post structuralism ? |
| A. | jacques derrida |
| B. | jaques lacan |
| C. | michel faucault |
| D. | all the above |
| Answer» E. | |
| 6. |
General science of sign is known as ? |
| A. | semiology |
| B. | linguistics |
| C. | philology |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» B. linguistics | |
| 7. |
Which is the primary mode of being of language? |
| A. | learning |
| B. | writing |
| C. | speech |
| D. | thinking |
| Answer» D. thinking | |
| 8. |
What is the literal meaning of French term Langue? |
| A. | tongue |
| B. | eyes |
| C. | nose |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» B. eyes | |
| 9. |
Science of language is known as ? |
| A. | philology |
| B. | hermeneutics |
| C. | semantics |
| D. | analytic philosophy |
| Answer» B. hermeneutics | |
| 10. |
The study of elementary speech sounds or Phonemes of a given language is known as ? |
| A. | semiology |
| B. | physiology |
| C. | speech therapy |
| D. | phonology |
| Answer» E. | |
| 11. |
Theoretician who applied Structuralism to literary texts and such cultural artifacts is ? |
| A. | roland barthes |
| B. | claude levi strauss |
| C. | jacques derrida |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» B. claude levi strauss | |
| 12. |
Smallest meaningful unit of speech sounds within any one language is defined as ? |
| A. | word |
| B. | morpheme |
| C. | sentence |
| D. | letter |
| Answer» C. sentence | |
| 13. |
The study of morphemes is known as ? |
| A. | linguistics |
| B. | phenomenology |
| C. | morphology |
| D. | phonetics |
| Answer» D. phonetics | |
| 14. |
The term that refers to recent theories of criticism and intellectual enquires in general is known as ? |
| A. | structuralism |
| B. | post modernism |
| C. | post structuralism |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» D. none of these | |
| 15. |
According to ----------- language is not the original bearer of meaning. |
| A. | Brentano |
| B. | Husserl |
| C. | Heidegger |
| D. | Gadamer |
| Answer» C. Heidegger | |
| 16. |
On which period, post structuralism become prominent? |
| A. | 1970 s |
| B. | 1870 s |
| C. | 1990 s |
| D. | 1950 s |
| Answer» B. 1870 s | |
| 17. |
Name the post structural thinker who groomed in the phenomenological tradition of Edmund Husserl and Heidegger? |
| A. | derrida |
| B. | laccan |
| C. | faucault |
| D. | kristeva |
| Answer» B. laccan | |
| 18. |
The ------------ reduction is a suspension of judgments about the existence or nonexistence of the external world. |
| A. | Phenomenological |
| B. | Transcendental |
| C. | eidetic |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» B. Transcendental | |
| 19. |
The ------------- attitude is a turn towards the source of world s meaning. |
| A. | Phenomenological |
| B. | natural |
| C. | eidetic |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» B. natural | |
| 20. |
Husserl called descriptive analysis ---------- phenomenology |
| A. | Static |
| B. | descriptive |
| C. | genetic |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» B. descriptive | |
| 21. |
The -------- is a na ve acceptance of reality as a domain of facts independent of consciousness. |
| A. | Phenomenological |
| B. | natural |
| C. | eidetic |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» C. eidetic | |
| 22. |
The ----------- attitude is a turn towards world s meaning . |
| A. | Phenomenological |
| B. | natural |
| C. | eidetic |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» B. natural | |
| 23. |
Unlike ---------- Husserl did not differentiate between noumenal and phenomenal realm. |
| A. | Hegel |
| B. | Kant |
| C. | Heidegger |
| D. | Gadamer |
| Answer» C. Heidegger | |
| 24. |
------------ are the pre given context in which we find ourselves . |
| A. | Horizon |
| B. | hyle |
| C. | noema |
| D. | noesis |
| Answer» B. hyle | |
| 25. |
----------- is the author of Being and Time . |
| A. | Husserl |
| B. | Heidegger |
| C. | Gadamer |
| D. | Derrida |
| Answer» C. Gadamer | |
| 26. |
The central problem for ------------ is the problem of constitution: How is the world as phenomenon constituted in our consciousness? |
| A. | Husserl |
| B. | Bretano |
| C. | Gadamer |
| D. | Derrida |
| Answer» B. Bretano | |
| 27. |
The central theme of ---------'s philosophy is the question concerning the meaning of being . |
| A. | Husserl |
| B. | Heidegger |
| C. | Gadamer |
| D. | Derrida |
| Answer» C. Gadamer | |
| 28. |
Heidegger s attempt to overcome western metaphysics is influenced by -------. |
| A. | Husserl |
| B. | Bretano |
| C. | Gadamer |
| D. | Derrida |
| Answer» B. Bretano | |
| 29. |
Dasein s primordial relationship to others is one of -----------. |
| A. | Care |
| B. | authentic |
| C. | inauthentic |
| D. | Solicitude |
| Answer» E. | |
| 30. |
The being of Dasein is made visible as -------- |
| A. | Care |
| B. | authentic |
| C. | inauthentic |
| D. | Solicitude |
| Answer» B. authentic | |
| 31. |
For --------- an essence is that which holds throughout all perceptions of an object. |
| A. | Husserl |
| B. | Bretano |
| C. | Gadamer |
| D. | Derrida |
| Answer» B. Bretano | |
| 32. |
The temporal character of ------------- is derived from the tripartite ontological structure: existence, thrownness, and fallenness . |
| A. | Dasein |
| B. | mind |
| C. | body |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» B. mind | |
| 33. |
-----------is the idea or concept of the thing (e.g., the idea of a tree), |
| A. | Signifier |
| B. | signified |
| C. | sign |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» C. sign | |
| 34. |
A------- must have both a signifier and a signified. |
| A. | Sign |
| B. | Signifier |
| C. | signified |
| D. | Structure |
| Answer» B. Signifier | |
| 35. |
Accrording to Sassure the relation between ---------- and signified is arbitrary. |
| A. | Sign |
| B. | Signifier |
| C. | signified |
| D. | Structure |
| Answer» C. signified | |
| 36. |
According to ------- language plays a crucial role in 'constructing reality'. |
| A. | Sassure |
| B. | Heidegger |
| C. | Gadamer |
| D. | Derrida |
| Answer» B. Heidegger | |
| 37. |
According to ---------- the 'value' of a sign depends on its relations with other signs within the system. |
| A. | Sassure |
| B. | Heidegger |
| C. | Gadamer |
| D. | Derrida |
| Answer» B. Heidegger | |
| 38. |
For -----------, phenomenology integrates a kind of psychology with a kind of logic. |
| A. | Husserl |
| B. | Heidegger |
| C. | Gadamer |
| D. | Derrida |
| Answer» B. Heidegger | |
| 39. |
Husserl was the student of ----------- |
| A. | Brentano |
| B. | Heidegger |
| C. | Gadamer |
| D. | Derrida |
| Answer» B. Heidegger | |
| 40. |
Husserl is accused of ----------- by Frege. |
| A. | naturalism |
| B. | psychologism |
| C. | feminism |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» C. feminism | |
| 41. |
Husserl opposes ------------ |
| A. | naturalism |
| B. | psychologism |
| C. | feminism |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» B. psychologism | |
| 42. |
Husserl developed a ------------ phenomenology. |
| A. | Transcendental |
| B. | hermeneutical |
| C. | existeantial |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» B. hermeneutical | |
| 43. |
The term phenomenology was first used by ---------------. |
| A. | Kant |
| B. | Hegel |
| C. | Husserl |
| D. | H D Lambert |
| Answer» E. | |
| 44. |
According to Husserl ---------- is not the capacity of the consciousness but its very structure. |
| A. | Intentionality |
| B. | cogito |
| C. | emotions |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» B. cogito | |
| 45. |
According to ---------------- meaning is not linguistic but intentional. |
| A. | Brentano |
| B. | Husserl |
| C. | Heidegger |
| D. | Gadamer |
| Answer» C. Heidegger | |
| 46. |
In Philosophical Investigations Wittgenstein proposed a -------------- theory of language. |
| A. | use theory |
| B. | picture theory |
| C. | both a and b |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» B. picture theory | |
| 47. |
According to ----------------Metaphysical statements are not empirically verifiable and are thus meaningless. |
| A. | Logical positivism |
| B. | Hermeneutics |
| C. | Existentialism |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» B. Hermeneutics | |
| 48. |
According to -----------------, there are only two sources of knowledge: logical reasoning and empirical experience. |
| A. | Logical positivism |
| B. | Hermeneutics |
| C. | Existentialism |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» B. Hermeneutics | |
| 49. |
According to ------------------Philosophy is the activity by means of which the meaning of statements is clarified and defined. |
| A. | WV Quine |
| B. | Wittgenstein |
| C. | A J Ayer |
| D. | Schlick |
| Answer» E. | |
| 50. |
Synthetic statements depend on experience, and their truth can be acknowledged only by means of the experience. |
| A. | analytic |
| B. | synthetic |
| C. | practical |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» C. practical | |