Week 1: Doing Philosophy (Part 1)

Holism comes from the Greek word ____________ meaning "all" or "total."

___________ and ______________ are the two types of holism.

• Epistemological/

• rational

• categorical

• Semantic/

Gottlob Frege formulated the so-called _________________ which states that meaning can only be acquired within the context of a proposition or sentence.

The principle of holism was summarized in "Metaphysics", written by which philosopher?

• Socrates

• Plato

• Aristotle/

• Friedrich Nietzsche

Which of the following is the South African statesman who introduced the term "holism" in a book he wrote in 1926?

• Donald Davidson

• Gottlob Frege\

• Ludwig Wittgenstein

• Jan Smuts/

What is the other term used for epistemological holism?

• materialism

• Confirmation/

• semantic

• Ontological

What kind of holism states that no individual statement can be confirmed or disconfirmed by an empirical test, but only a set of statements?

• philosophy of language

• semantic holism

• confirmation holism/

• total holism

This refers to a specific manner of consideration when it comes to how one sees something.

• vantage point

• propositional attitude

• worldview

• point of view/

In the context of philosophy of language, this refers to the position that sentences have meanings that are independent of their relations to other sentences or beliefs.

• Epistemological reductionism

• Semantic holism

• Atomism

• Context principle

What doctrine states that a word acquires its meaning only within the context of a proposition or sentence?

• complex system

• context principle/

• reductionism

• philosophy of language