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PHILOSOPHY AND THE FOUR SCHOOLS

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

When professional mathematicians are concerned with the foundations of their subject, they are said to be engaged in foundational research

a)

True

b)

False

c)

Maybe

2.

When professional philosophers investigate philosophical questions concerning mathematics, they are said to contribute to the philosophy of mathematics

a)

True

b)

False

c)

Maybe

3.

It is broadly conceived as comprising proof theory, model theory, set theory, and computability theory as subfields

a)

Mathematics

b)

Logic

c)

Mathematical Logic

d)

Discrete Mathematics

4.

In the first decades of the twentieth century, three non-Platonistic accounts of mathematics were developed except one.

a)

Logicism

b)

Formalism

c)

Intuitionism

d)

Predicativism

5.

Frege's Basic Law V

a)

logicism

b)

formalism

c)

intuitionism

d)

predicativism

6.

Russell’s paradox

a)

logicism

b)

formalism

c)

intuitionism

d)

predicativism

7.

Hume’s Principle

a)

logicism

b)

formalism

c)

intuitionism

d)

predicativism

8.

Peano Arithmetic

a)

logicism

b)

formalism

c)

intuitionism

d)

predicativism

9.

mathematics is essentially an activity of construction

a)

logicism

b)

predicativism

c)

intuitionism

d)

formalism

10.

Resolutely rejects the existence of the actual (or completed) infinite; only potentially infinite collections are given in the activity of construction.

a)

logicism

b)

predicativism

c)

intuitionism

d)

formalism

11.

principle of excluded third

a)

logicism

b)

predicativism

c)

intuitionism

d)

formalism

12.

Heyting Arithmetic

a)

logicism

b)

predicativism

c)

intuitionism

d)

formalism

13.

natural numbers can be taken to be symbols

a)

logicism

b)

predicativism

c)

intuitionism

d)

formalism

14.

Primitive Recursive Arithmetic

a)

logicism

b)

predicativism

c)

intuitionism

d)

formalism

15.

Gödel’s first incompleteness theorem

a)

logicism

b)

predicativism

c)

intuitionism

d)

formalism