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1. The task of phenomenology is to study ---
2. Leading members of the Vienna circle included M. Schlick, R. Carnap, O. Neurath, and
3. Existentialism emphasizing individual existence, freedom, and ----
4. ------------ defends social experimentation as a means of improving society, and accepts pluralism and rejects dead dogmas.
5. The most famous doctrine of logical positivism is its --------- principle
6. Who derives the term 'theory of objects' which he preferred as 'metaphysics' and 'ontology'?
7. Transcendental phenomenology, according to Husserl, was the study of -------
8. According to Comte the first stage is called ----------
9. Husserl as a transcendental philosopher deferrers from-------.
10. Nietzsche is an ------- existentialist philosopher.
11. Who said that “existence precedes essence”?
12. Epoché in phenomenology means ------ .
13. The business of --------includes questions about the meanings of subject expressions like the present king of France is bald.
14. ------- never published books in his lifetime. But his greatest contributions were in the field of mathematical logic in many ways.
15. Existentialists have argued that no objective and ------ principles can be found for moral decisions.
16. Ideas: A General Introduction to Pure Phenomenology is a work o
17. According to logical positivism, the validity and meaning of any proposition is dependent upon whether or not it can be---------
18. ---------- is the twentieth century philosophy .
19. On the Theory of Objects and Psychology is the work of --------------
20. ----- reduction brackets the question of existence and attempts to focus on the essence.
21. Peirce’s --------- was first elaborated in a series of illustrations of the Logic of Science in the Popular Science Monthly in 1877.
22. The centre of the movement called logical empiricism was ---------. .
23. statement which cannot be verified is held to be ……………………………..
24. Logical positivists, who have been influenced by Peirce, believed that truth is closed to --------- .
25. Wittgenstein’s Tractatus .influenced ---------- PhilosophY.