Phil 2050 Week 3

Front 1

Although people may interpret or understand language differently...

Back 1

A)Through the use of proper hermeneutical approaches, there is more inter-subjective agreements with regard to language than disagreement
B)Language is not relative;otherwise it would not have had survival function
C)Language descriptevely exists because of the process of natural selection
D)Language exists precisely because it is not hopelessly naive or relative

Front 2

Body Language is best able to deal with communication and thought that deal with which of the following?

Back 2

A) Pleasure and Pain

Front 3

Color-blind tests are based on the strong empirical evidence that humans perceive more similarly than dissimilarly. T/F

Back 3

True

Front 4

If all the subjective congnitive experiences caused by both the sense data of language, and all the other perceptions, are all that a being can know about the world, then which of the following is true?

Back 4

B)The nature of reality has been greatly reduced to that of a being's own cognitive faculties.
C) Reality of the world is of the perceiver's own understanding
D) The nature of reality has been greatly reduced to that of a being's own cognitive faculties.

Front 5

If all thought is language and all language is thought then which of the following is true?

Back 5

A) No language means no thought
B) Some language means some thought
C) Thought and language are indistinguishable

Front 6

If all thought is language and all language is thought then which of the following is true?

Back 6

A) Simple language is more prone to simple thoughts
B) Complex language has the potential for more complex thoughts.

Front 7

If an experience is subjective and incommunicable then it logically follow that it is also relative. T/F

Back 7

False

Front 8

If language is a secondary quality then which of the following is true?

Back 8

A) Language would be a subjective experience
B) Language may have little if any resemblance to the actual thought or primary quality that it is attempting to represent
C) A person would be naive if they were to believed that what they were describing was the actual thought

Front 9

If language is sense data then language is not representative of thoughts. T/F

Back 9

TRUE

Front 10

If language is the same as sense data then language is the same as that of which the language represents. T/F

Back 10

False

Front 11

If language, whether mathematical, linguistic, diagrammatic, etc., is in the same category as the other sense perceptions, then language is likewise an experiential mental linguistic construct. T/F

Back 11

True

Front 12

If the hermeneutical circle is sound, then it is not the casse that it is a vicious circle. T/F

Back 12

False

Front 13

It is a known empirical fact that most people have dissimilar subjective experiences of color. T/F

Back 13

False

Front 14

It is logically impossible to experience primary qualities if, by definition, all experiences are in fact subjective, yet science is still able to be practical in its manifestations. T/F

Back 14

TRUE

Front 15

It is possible to hold to the position that personal reality is the same as language even if there is a reality independent of language and experiences. T/F

Back 15

True

Front 16

It is possible to point to different coherent, scientific, factual, and inter-subjective world-views and then use the practical approach of Principlism to help make moral decision in pluralistic environments.T/F

Back 16

TRUE

Front 17

It is quite possible that there is a categorical difference between and idea or thought and a language that represents such. T/F

Back 17

True

Front 18

It is reasonable to argue that language is a type of sense data that stimulates ideas, but not the actual ideas themselves. T/F

Back 18

TRUE

Front 19

Mathematical language is best able to deal with communications and thoughts that deal with which of the following?

Back 19

Sense Data

Front 20

No knowledge is a subjective cognitive experience, rather all knowledge exists independently of the experiencer. T/F

Back 20

False

Front 21

One central issue related to language is whether or not language determines thoughts. T/F

Back 21

TRUE

Front 22

One particular language framework is capable of communicating all forms of communications. T/F

Back 22

False

Front 23

People practically do know that perceivers are not totally solipsistic as....

Back 23

-They are able to practically effect or extend themselves byond their own experiences.
-Moral agents are able to come to practical moral decision-making
-They are able to interact with others and their environment.
-Moral agents have intersubjective agreements with each other.

Front 24

Principlism and its broad and general principles of auonomy, beneficence,nonmaleficence and justice are shared intersubjective values that do not conflict with many if not most worldviews. T/F

Back 24

True

Front 25

The hermeneutical circle states: In order to understand the whole a person needs to undrstand the parts, but to understand the parts a person needs to understand the whole. T/F

Back 25

TRUE

Front 26

This is a work that linguistically describes Principlism as a form of ethics and values both as a descriptive science and as a prescriptive metaphysics. T/F

Back 26

TRUE

Front 27

To expand the definition of language to include any subjective cognitive experience is to make language indistinguishable from subjective experience. T/F

Back 27

TRUE

Front 28

Verbal and written language is best able to deal with communications and thoughts that deal with which of the following?

Back 28

History and verbal thoughts

Front 29

Which of the following is true about an electron?

Back 29

-Does not literally mean the linguistic work
-Does not literally mean the mathmatical statement
-The lunguistic word or mathematical statement is all that a person can and do know of such entities.
-What a person does know is a "type of reality"about what is being considred