Module 4 - Wittgenstein's Attack on the Referential Theory of Meaning

Question 1

(…) as meaning is merely secondary to (…) as meaning

Answer 1

Sense; referent

Question 2

(…) was a philosophical movement which aimed to eliminate of all (…)

Answer 2

Positivism; metaphysics

Question 3

Traditional metaphysical (…) are generally not found in the language (or discourse) of (…)

Answer 3

terms; science

Question 4

The opposition between (…) and (…) is one of the outstanding dialects in philosophy

Answer 4

science; religion

Question 5

The (…) theorists, in general, take the side of science in this dialectic

Answer 5

referential

Question 6

Wittgenstein commenced his attack against the referential theory of meaning by presenting two erstwhile singular names (…) and (…)

Answer 6

Excalibur; Mr. N.N.

Question 7

The weakness of Wittgenstein’s attack is that the two erstwhile singular names by which he commenced the attack against the referential theory of meaning are both of them in (…) failure

Answer 7

referential

Question 8

The two alleged singular names (…) and (…) do not have respective (…) to start with

Answer 8

Excalibur; Mr. N.N.; referents

Question 9

In his objectlevel attack against the referential theory of meaning, Wittgenstein confronts the reader with the problem of (…) reference to past objects

Answer 9

contemporaneous

Question 10

In his metalevel attack against the referential theory of meaning, Wittgenstein confronts the reader with the alleged (… …) of alluding to (…) being broken to pieces and the alleged (… …) of alluding to (…) being dead

Answer 10

singular name; meaning; singular name; meaning

Question 11

Sense (i.e. descriptive meaningfulness) of a linguistic expression is ultimately vacuous or empty unless there is something,, a referent object, which the linguistic expression describes

Answer 11

TRUE

Question 12

Reference (i.e. referential meaningfulness) of an erstwhile singular name is not attained unless the alleged singular name has a referent object

Answer 12

TRUE

Question 13

The term ‘flying horse’ has sense

Answer 13

FALSE

Question 14

The term ‘flying horse’ has a referent

Answer 14

FALSE

Question 15

An alleged name is ultimately not a name unless it has a definitive referent

Answer 15

TRUE

Question 16

All erstwhile (alleged) names have definitive referents

Answer 16

FALSE

Question 17

Wittgenstein’s counterexample ‘Excalibur’ has a definitive referent

Answer 17

FALSE

Question 18

Wittgenstein’s counterexample ‘Mr. N.N.’ has a definitive referent

Answer 18

FALSE

Question 19

That according to the referential theory of meaning referent objects are meanings is Wittgenstein’s original discovery

Answer 19

TRUE

Question 20

However, Wittgenstein finds it absurd to talk of referent objects as meanings

Answer 20

TRUE

Question 21

That referent objects are meanings is the ultimate essential consequence of the referential theory of meaning

Answer 21

TRUE

Question 22

Wittgenstein does not consider his discovery of this consequence absurd

Answer 22

TRUE

Question 23

Contemporaneous reference to past objects is very much possible

Answer 23

FALSE

Question 24

Contemporaneous reference to present objects is very much doable

Answer 24

TRUE

Question 25

Contemporaneous reference is the same as historical reference

Answer 25

FALSE

Question 26

Historical reference is what can be done to past objects

Answer 26

TRUE

Question 27

According to the referential theory of meaning, the meaning of the proper name ‘Fatman’ exploded over Nagasaki on 9 August 1945

Answer 27

TRUE

Question 28

According to the referential theory of meaning, the meaning of the proper name ‘Jose Rizal’ was executed by firing squad at the Bagumbayan field (now Luneta Park) in the early morning of 30 December 1896

Answer 28

TRUE

Question 29

The sense of the proper name ‘Fatman’ exploded over Nagasaki on 9 August 1945

Answer 29

FALSE

Question 30

The proper name ‘Jose Rizal’ has a definitive sense

Answer 30

FALSE

Question 31

The referent of the proper name ‘Fatman’ exploded over Nagasaki on 9 August 1945

Answer 31

TRUE

Question 32

The referent of the proper name ‘Jose Rizal’ was shot at the Bagumbayan field in the early morning of 30 December 1896

Answer 32

TRUE

Question 33

Fatman still exists today

Answer 33

FALSE

Question 34

Jose Rizal still exists today

Answer 34

FALSE

Question 35

Realism is the distinctive virtue of the referential theory of meaning in contrast to the other theories of meaning

Answer 35

TRUE