MPYE-003 EPISTEMOLOGY Solved Assignment 2018-2019

MPYE-003 EPISTEMOLOGY

Solved Assignment

2018-2019

i) Answer all five questions
ii) All questions carry equal marks
iii) For every question, refer to the texts and write down the assignment-responses in your own
words.
iv) Answers to question no.1 and 2 should be in about 500 words each.
1. Briefly discuss Quine-Duhem thesis and its implications for epistemic justification. 20
OR
What do you understand by certitude? Explain various types of certitudes possible.
2. Explain the criteria of truth accepted in Indian philosophy and discuss various khyativadas. 20
Or
Write an essay on anumana in the Indian tradition.
3. Answer any two of the following questions in about 250 words each:
a) Write a note on the correspondence theory of truth. 10
b) Explain in detail the nature and the scope of epistemology. 10
c) Explain hermeneutics. What are three components of hermeneutical enterprise? 10
d) Discuss the linguistic turn in philosophy and the reconstruction of metaphysics. 10
4. Answer any four of the following in about 150 words each:
a) What is epistemological realism? 5
b) Explain the „Picture Theory of Language‟. 5
c) What is contextualism? 5
d) Briefly explain the implications of truth and knowledge. 5
e) Briefly explain the debate of internalism versus externalism. 5
f) What are the types of sabda? 5
5. Write short notes on any five of the following in about 100 words each:
a) Asatkhyati
b) Sphota theory
c) Nirvikalpaka perception
d) Upamana
e) The Dhvani theory
f) Syadvada
g) Antahkarana
h) Linga paramarsa
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