Relation between contingency and language

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Exploring Truth and Contingency in Language

Test your knowledge and understanding of the intricate relationship between language and truth. This quiz challenges you to think deeply about philosophical concepts and their implications in our understanding of reality.

Key Features:

  • 10 Thought-provoking questions
  • Multiple choice and open-ended formats
  • Engage with critical philosophical ideas
10 Questions2 MinutesCreated by ContemplatingMind42
What did the Romantic poets view as the highest position in culture?
Art
Nature
Philosophy
Science
Can there be truth without language?
Yes
No
In the light of contingency and the truth, what kind of philosophers stand against each other? (two answers correct)
Philosophers who contradict scientific facts vs the subjective
Philosophers who do not believe in truth and take no pride in looking for it
Philosophers who science as a violation of the human mind
Philosophers who see science as a human activity, rather than a place of a 'hard' reality
Kant and Hegel, both German idealists, had a certain opinion about what truth consisted of. Why was this idea short-lived?
They had no embodyment for the definition of the human mind
Their view of the truth was fairly one-sided and took everything the world proposed to them
Their view of the truth was to contradictory to what was believed by other philosophers
They could not deny the intrinsic nature of mind, matter and the world
Which of the two are more useful when trying to define the term 'truth'?
Vocabularies
Single sentences
How would we as humans stop the traditional philosophical search for the truth?
By adopting new vocabularies to explain phenomena
By ignoring the standard assumptions humans make
By seeing the world as the fundamental place to look for the truth
When we stop looking at vocabularies as "fitting/not fitting the world"
Which proposition is not a subset of contingent propositions?
Tautologies
Possible propositions
Contradictions
Pleonasms
A tautological proposition is a proposition that is necessarily true. Think of one.
A contradiction is a proposition that is necessarily false, no matter what the consequences are. Think of one.
A possible proposition is a proposition which can be true under certain circumstances. Think of one. (If you do not know, maths might give you an insight :)
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