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Husserl are now
studied by historians,
and the boldness which
characterised their
age, roughly from 1900
to 1950, has given way
to a spirit of
caution,
qualification, and
retreat. This is not
to say that talented
hall, one is likely to
find brief discussions
dealing with an odd
assortment of issues
about such things as
time machines,
adverbs, pains,
possible worlds,
sexual perversion.
Even the language has
believed that
philosophical
questions were the
result of logical or
linguistic confusions.
The task of
philosophy was to
eliminate them and
thereby do away with
itself.
with the analysis of
concepts. But this
characterisation is
inadequate because it
seems to suggest that
the distinction
between the factual
and the conceptual is
absolute and that
concepts can be
analysed entirely on
say, ethics in such an
environment, Broad and
his cohorts had a
ready answer: the
moral philosopher must
be distinguished from
the moralist. The
latter takes a stand
on important ethical
questions and can be
refuted should his
not bring his
knowledge to bear on
the controversial
issues of the present?
Recently a number of
articles have sprung
up in the
philosophical journals
dealing with abortion,
homosexuality,
recombinant DNA
does not. Without a
body of accepted
beliefs to build on,
philosophers can make
interesting points,
but not step-by-step
progress. A
researcher in physics
does not have to make
a new beginning each
time he walks into his
Which of the following
titles best
exemplifies the
passage?
Declines and Falls
Nationalism and
Philosophy
Contemporary American
Literature
The State of
Contemporary
Philosophy
The Study of
Philosophy
According to the
passage, philosophers
are concerned today
with the subject of
Political theory
Philosophical inquiry
Outdated works
Abstract versions of
social theory
Public affairs
The author states that
the philosopher is
constantly
Out of touch with
general history
Defining his
discipline
Determining objectives
Investigating specific
phenomena
Providing radical
alternatives
The moral philosopher
does not have to
Be in touch with
general history
Recommend a course of
action
Account to his
colleagues
Study linguistics
Be in touch with
reality
Many philosophers feel
that the study of
philosophy should
become more
Technical
Popular
Cautious
Moralistic
Dialectic
Which of the following
subjects is not
generally studied by
academic philosophers?
Time machines
Possible worlds
External worlds
Linguistics
Moral issues
philosophy has
included I.
intelligence testing
II. Language training
III. Pure research
I only
II only
I and II only
II and III only
I, II, and III
Which of the following
statements best
exemplifies the
author's feelings?
Philosophy is in moral
decay
Talented people no
longer study
philosophy
Historians have
replaced philosophers
Few academic
philosophers are left
Philosophers are too
cautious
A criticism of
philosophy is its lack
of
Models and constructs
Concepts
Scientific logic
Purity
Thematic perception
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arts. Federal outlays
for research in the
physical sciences rose
from $0.6 billion in
fiscal 1956 to $2.9
billion in 1963 and
$3.8 billion in 1973.
Federal support of
social science
research, which stood
United States. The
objectives underlying
this state
intervention are not
well understood. The
central purpose of
this paper is to
evaluate the relative
strengths of several
alternative
model stresses the
utility of the
investment for capital
accumulation. A third
model points toward
the value of
supporting science and
art for the
administration of
government programs.
Increasingly, the
paradigms (Kuhn, 1970:
175) in science and
art dictate
expenditures that
increasingly outstrip
the resources of the
institutions
themselves.
Equipment, staff, and
form of protecting the
paradigm of the arts
and sciences.
Specifically, federal
funding should be
allocated to the most
creative artists and
organisations, as
defined by the
relevant artistic
According to the
passage, the growth in
federal support was
greatest for
Goods and services
Social science
research
Defence and welfare
Endowment for the arts
Physical sciences
The major objective of
the passage is to
Increase appreciation
for the arts
Provide an ideological
basis for artistic
funding
explain why government
supports cultural
activities
Argue for more
government support of
the arts and sciences
Demonstrate cultural
activities in the
United States
discussed in the
passage represents the
statement: "Funding
should be provided to
the best artists and
scientists"?
Science and art for
their own sake
Science and art for
business application
Science and art for
government programs
Science and art for
ideological control
All models for
government investment
A corollary of the
science and art for
government programs is
Funding should be
provided by government
only as a last resort
Funding will be geared
to projects of value
to the government
Funding is to be
provided only to
nongovernmental
employees
Funding by the
government is self-
defeating
Funding by the
government is
inflationary
A conclusion reached
by the author of the
passage is that
The arts and sciences
have been funded by
the government for
different reasons
Government is a
neutral observer of
the arts and sciences
Government
intervention in the
arts and sciences is
declining
The arts and sciences
are not dependent on
government funding
Politics and science
go together
Government
intervention in the
arts and sciences
should coincide with
Government's ability
to pay
Fluctuations in the
business cycle
Political needs
Economic needs of the
arts and sciences
community
The number of needy
scientists
support the arts and
science only when the
market does not
provide enough funds
belongs to which
school ?
"Their own sake"
"Business application"
"Government programs"
"Ideological control"
All of the above
The idea that cultural
goods can no longer be
provided solely by the
market system is given
by
The author of the
passage
The first model of
government patronage
The second model of
government patronage
The third model of
government patronage
The fourth model of
government patronage
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family life. Nor is
this cost distributed
in proportion to
ability to bear it.
It falls most heavily
on the young, the
semiskilled and
unskilled, the black
person, the older
worker, and the
underemployed person
idleness or dollars of
income lost. The
extra costs include
disruption of the
careers of young
people, increased
juvenile delinquency,
and perpetuation of
conditions which breed
racial discrimination
in employment and
foreign and domestic
competition. On the
side of agriculture,
higher prices are
necessary to achieve
income objectives when
urban and industrial
demand for foods and
fibres is depressed
and lack of
of the labour force
only when the demand
for the myriad of
goods and services-
automobiles, clothing,
food, haircuts,
electric generators,
highways, and so on-is
sufficiently great in
total to require the
productive efforts of
machinery and for
additions to
inventories, net
export demand of
foreign buyers, and
demand of government
units. Federal, state,
and local. Thus gross
national product
(GNP), our total
economic stability
requires the
maintenance of a
continuing balance
between growing
productive capacity
and growing demand.
Action to expand
demand is called for
not only when demand
actually declines and
According to the
passage, unemployment
is an index of
Overutilization of
capacity
Economic slack and
lost output
Diminished resources
The employment rate
Undercapacity
While unemployment is
damaging to many, it
falls most heavily
upon all except the
Black
Semiskilled
Unskilled
Underemployed
White middle class
The cost to society of
unemployment can be
measured by all except
Lost incomes
Idleness
Juvenile delinquency
Disruption of careers
The death rate
Serious unemployment
leads labour groups to
demand
More jobs by having
everyone work shorter
nouns
Higher wages to those
employed
"No fire" policies
Cost-cutting solutions
Higher social security
payments
According to the
passage, a typical
business reaction to a
recession is to press
for
Higher unemployment
insurance
Protection against
imports
Government action
Restrictive business
practices
Restraint against
union activity
The demand for labour
is
A derived demand
Declining
About 4 percent of the
total work force
Underutilized
Dependent upon
technology
Gross national product
(GNP) is a measure of
Personal consumption
Net exports
Domestic investment
Government purchases
of goods and services
Our total output
According to the
passage, a
satisfactory level of
unemployment is
85 percent of the
civilian work force
90 Percent of the
civilian work force
4 percent unemployment
2 percent unemployment
no unemployment
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sunny sky and from an
apparently calm sea, a
wall of water may
break twenty or thirty
feet high over beaches
and waterfronts,
crushing houses and
drowning unsuspecting
residents and bathers
in its path.
centre as another
swell looms up. Thus,
a series of concentric
swells are formed
similar to those made
when a coin or small
pebble is dropped into
a basin of water. The
big difference is in
the size. Each of the
concentric rings of
Islands could start a
swell that would break
along the shores and
cause severe damage in
the southern part of
Chile in South
America. These waves
travel hundreds of
miles an hour, and one
can understand how
shores of Hawaii were
dashed to death and
shore-line property
became a mass of
shambles because a
series of monstrous,
breaking swells
crashed along the
shore and drove far
inland. Hundreds of
lives were lost in
data centre, to locate
submarine earthquakes
as soon as they might
occur. With this
information they could
then tell how severe a
submarine earthquake
was and could set up a
tracking chart, with
the centre over the
area of the
formed in concentric
patternsOften strike
during clear
weatherArise under
conditions of cold
temperatureAre
produced by deep
swellsMay be forecast
scientifically
outside the area
monitored by the Coast
and Geodetic SurveyAt
great distance from
their place of
originAt the same time
as the occurrence of
earthquakesIn areas
outside the Pacific
region