Prelim Exam

One important thing when we study Philosophy is...

• Decisions

• Notes

• Knowledge

• Grammar

He is an Italian Philosopher who said "Everyone is a philosopher"

Four Sub-discipline or field of philosophy

• Theory of knowledge

• Politics and Political Philosophy

• Logic

• Political Science

• Ontology

For them, society is nothing over and above the collection

of individual people who make it up.

• Idealists

• Methodological individualists

• Materialists

• Dualist

For some philosophers, the apparent difficulty of being sure about the nature of anything beyond the limits of our own conscious experience leads them to?

All logical positivists are empiricists, but not all empiricists are logical positivists.

• True

• False

This rules out knowledge-claims about beings or entities which can be observed.

• True

• False

He generally credited with inventing both of the terms ‘positivism’ and ‘sociology’

He/She is the founder of contemporary scientific approaches to language, has

argued that the child’s experience of language is far too limited and fragmentary for us to explain

language acquisition in empiricist terms.

It answers questions about the relationship between

elements, or parts, and the wholes to which they belong.

Incorrect

Incorrect

Correct

• functional explanation

• observable phenomena

• historical-narrative explanation