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Who are "Verificationists”?
1) They are people opposed to the views of anti-representationallist.
2) They are people opposed to the views of representationalist.
3) They believed that idealism must be part of philosophy.
4) They believed that representation was fundamental to philosophy.
1) They are people opposed to the views of anti-representationallist.
2) They are people opposed to the views of representationalist.
3) They believed that idealism must be part of philosophy.
4) They believed that representation was fundamental to philosophy.
Answer: Option B
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B
Look at these lines in the last but one paragraph -
“The fact that we can never know whether a “mature” physical theory, one which seems to leave nothing to be desired, may not be entirely off the mark is, representationalists say, no reason to deprive ourselves of the notion of “being off the mark”. To think otherwise, they add, is to be “verificationist,” undesirably anthropocentric in the same way in which nineteenth-century idealism was undesirably anthropocentric. It is to fall under the influence of what Thomas Nagel calls “a significant strain of idealism in contemporary philosophy, according to which what there is and how things are cannot go beyond what we could in principle think about”.
Look at these lines in the last but one paragraph -
“The fact that we can never know whether a “mature” physical theory, one which seems to leave nothing to be desired, may not be entirely off the mark is, representationalists say, no reason to deprive ourselves of the notion of “being off the mark”. To think otherwise, they add, is to be “verificationist,” undesirably anthropocentric in the same way in which nineteenth-century idealism was undesirably anthropocentric. It is to fall under the influence of what Thomas Nagel calls “a significant strain of idealism in contemporary philosophy, according to which what there is and how things are cannot go beyond what we could in principle think about”.
The things we can definitely infer are:
1) They were definitely against representationalists. Look at the transition word “To think otherwise” w.r.t. to the representationalists.
2) These people wanted idealism in contemporary philosophy.
So statement no.2 and 3 (as per the question are true).Statement no.1 is not supported whereas statement no.4 is contrary to the views of the verificationist.
So the answer is (b).
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B
Look at these lines in the last but one paragraph -
“The fact that we can never know whether a “mature” physical theory, one which seems to leave nothing to be desired, may not be entirely off the mark is, representationalists say, no reason to deprive ourselves of the notion of “being off the mark”. To think otherwise, they add, is to be “verificationist,” undesirably anthropocentric in the same way in which nineteenth-century idealism was undesirably anthropocentric. It is to fall under the influence of what Thomas Nagel calls “a significant strain of idealism in contemporary philosophy, according to which what there is and how things are cannot go beyond what we could in principle think about”.
Look at these lines in the last but one paragraph -
“The fact that we can never know whether a “mature” physical theory, one which seems to leave nothing to be desired, may not be entirely off the mark is, representationalists say, no reason to deprive ourselves of the notion of “being off the mark”. To think otherwise, they add, is to be “verificationist,” undesirably anthropocentric in the same way in which nineteenth-century idealism was undesirably anthropocentric. It is to fall under the influence of what Thomas Nagel calls “a significant strain of idealism in contemporary philosophy, according to which what there is and how things are cannot go beyond what we could in principle think about”.
The things we can definitely infer are:
1) They were definitely against representationalists. Look at the transition word “To think otherwise” w.r.t. to the representationalists.
2) These people wanted idealism in contemporary philosophy.
So statement no.2 and 3 (as per the question are true).Statement no.1 is not supported whereas statement no.4 is contrary to the views of the verificationist.
So the answer is (b).
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