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2. Field of Study - PHILOSOPHY (SPHM)
SECTION 1 - SECTION 1
Question No.1 (Question Id - 21)
Which one of the following Philosophers is not a Deontologist ?
(A)
Immanuel Kant
(B)
W.D. Ross
(C)
R.M. Hare
(D)
John Stuart Mill (Correct Answer)
Question No.2 (Question Id - 1)
Which of the following school of classical Indian Philosophy believes in arthpatti as one
of the instruments of valid cognition ?
(A)
Nyya
(B)
Yoga
(C)
Vaieika
(D)
Mmms (Correct Answer)
Question No.3 (Question Id - 31)
Digha Nikya is related to which of the following Philosophical Schools ?
(A)
Mmms
(B)
Nyya
(C)
rvka
(D)
Buddhism (Correct Answer)
Question No.4 (Question Id - 85)
Who, among the following, regarded logic and dialectic as separate ?
(A)
Hegel
(B)
Marx
(C)
Kant (Correct Answer)
(D)
Schelling
Question No.5 (Question Id - 43)
The fallacy (hetvbhsa) produced in the conclusion, due to refutation of Sdhya by
Hetu, is known as :
(A)
Savyabhichara
(B)
Viruddha (Correct Answer)
(C)
Satpratipaksha
(D)
Asiddha
Question No.6 (Question Id - 62)
Which one of the following forms of categorical syllogisms is valid in the first figure ?
(A)
AAI
(B)
AEE
(C)
IAI
(D)
AAA (Correct Answer)
Question No.7 (Question Id - 47)
Which pair of the following could be regarded as the operative terms of dialectics ?
(A)
Quantity and quality
(B)
Contradiction and sublimation (Correct Answer)
(C)
Cause and effect
(D)
Conditioned and unconditioned
Question No.8 (Question Id - 69)
Match List - I with List - II.
List - I
List - II
A. Converse of All S is P
I. Not Valid
B. Converse of No S is P
II. Some P is S (by limitation)
C. Converse of Some S is P
III. No P is S
D. Converse of Some S is not P IV. Some P is S
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
(A)
A - III, B - IV, C - II, D - I
(B)
A - III, B - IV, C - I, D - II
(C)
A - IV, B - III, C - II, D - I
(D)
A - II, B - III, C - IV, D - I (Correct Answer)
Question No.9 (Question Id - 4)
What is the chronological order of the following books ?
A. The Republic
B. Critique of Pure Reason
C. Discourse on Method
D. A Theory of Justice
E. Monadology
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
(A)
C, A, B, E, D
(B)
D, A, C, B, E
(C)
A, C, E, B, D (Correct Answer)
(D)
E, A, C, D, B
Question No.10 (Question Id - 39)
Which one of the following are called Prasthna - Traya ?
(A)
Upaniads, Brahma-Sutra and Pura
(B)
Upaniads, Smriti and Gita
(C)
Upaniads, Brahma-Sutra and Gita (Correct Answer)
(D)
Upaniads, Smriti and Pura
Question No.11 (Question Id - 5)
Arrange the following in sequential order according to Dwdaa-nidn-akra (twelve
linked chain) :
A. Nma-rpa
B. Avidya
C. Vij?na
D. Samskra
E. adyatana
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
(A)
B, D, C, A, E (Correct Answer)
(B)
D, B, A, E, C
(C)
C, A, B, D, E
(D)
A, B, C, E, D
Question No.12 (Question Id - 86)
Which one of the following kinds of knowledge was not advocated by John Locke ?
(A)
Intuitive Knowledge
(B)
Demonstrative Knowledge
(C)
Sensitive Knowledge
(D)
Knowledge from Innate ideas (Correct Answer)
Question No.13 (Question Id - 74)
Which one of the following is the principle of Ockham's Razor ?
(A)
Entities should always be multiplied
(B)
Entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity (Correct Answer)
(C)
Entities must not come under our consideration
(D)
Plurality is the virtue of any explanation
Question No.14 (Question Id - 80)
Which one of the following is the correct nature of analytic judgments ?
(A)
They always add something to the concept.
(B)
They do not add anything to what is included in the subject. (Correct
Answer)
(C)
They are essentially sharp in nature.
(D)
They are mathematically coherent.
Question No.15 (Question Id - 8)
Match List - I with List - II.
List - I
List - II
A. Pure Being is Pure Nothing
I. Descartes
B. Noumenon is a limiting concept
II. Leibniz
C. Pre-established harmony
III. Kant
D. Extension is the property of Body IV. Hegel
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
(A)
A - I, B - II, C - IV, D - III
(B)
A - III, B - IV, C - I, D - II
(C)
A - IV, B - III, C - II, D - I (Correct Answer)
(D)
A - II, B - IV, C - III, D - I
Question No.16 (Question Id - 17)
According to `Law of identity of the indiscernibles' which one of the following is correct ?
(A)
If A and B are indiscernible, then they are identical (Correct Answer)
(B)
If A is B and B is C then A is C
(C)
If X and Y are same then they are identical
(D)
If X and Y are identical then they are same
Question No.17 (Question Id - 70)
Which of the following statements are true ?
A. The conjunction between two propositions is true when either of the conjuncts is true.
B. The conjunction between two propositions is true when both the conjuncts are true.
C. The conjunction between two propositions is false when either of the conjuncts is
false.
D. The conjunction between two propositions is false when both the conjuncts are false.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
(A)
A, B and C only
(B)
A, B and D only
(C)
B, C and D only (Correct Answer)
(D)
A, C and D only
Question No.18 (Question Id - 84)
Which one of the following is not a principle of dialectics ?
(A)
Unity and the struggle of opposites
(B)
Quantitative changes leading to qualitative changes and vice-versa
(C)
Principle of identity (Correct Answer)
(D)
Negation of negation
Question No.19 (Question Id - 11)
Who among the following classical Indian Philosopher/s believe/s that when we mistake
an oyster shell for silver, the silver is actually perceived ?
A. Ramanuja
B. akara
C. Nyaya
D. Prabhakara
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
(A)
A only
(B)
B and D only
(C)
A and C only (Correct Answer)
(D)
C only
Question No.20 (Question Id - 28)
Which one of the following is not a condition of intelligibility of a sentence according to
Nyya ?
(A)
Yogyat
(B)
Ttparya
(C)
Samnat (Correct Answer)
(D)
knk
Question No.21 (Question Id - 2)
"Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one of its species, it is burdened by
questions which human reason can neither answer nor can it ignore them".
In the light of Critique of Pure Reason, what is best implied by the above statement ?
A. Reason is a competent faculty
B. Reason is not competent enough
C. Reason is a critique of reason
D. Reason ignores everything
E. Reason is not limited
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
(A)
Only A
(B)
Only B
(C)
Only C (Correct Answer)
(D)
Only D and E
Question No.22 (Question Id - 35)
Which one of the following schools believes in only two Pramnas ?
(A)
rvka
(B)
Mmms
(C)
Buddhism (Correct Answer)
(D)
Nyya
Question No.23 (Question Id - 42)
In the Nyya school, what is the absence of an object after its destruction called ?
(A)
Prgbhva
(B)
Pradhvasbhva (Correct Answer)
(C)
Anyonybhva
(D)
Atyantbhva
Question No.24 (Question Id - 54)
Match List - I with List - II.
List - I
List - II
A. Contradictory propositions
I. A & I
B. Contrary propositions
II. I & O
C. Sub-alternate propositions
III. E & A
D. Sub-contrary propositions IV. E & I
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
(A)
A - I, B - III, C - II, D - IV
(B)
A - II, B - I, C - III, D - IV
(C)
A - III, B - II, C - IV, D - I
(D)
A - IV, B - III, C - I, D - II (Correct Answer)
Question No.25 (Question Id - 9)
When we argue that there must be fire on the mountain because there is smoke rising
from it, which of the following is the paka (minor term of the inference) ?
(A)
Mountain (Correct Answer)
(B)
Smoke
(C)
Fire
(D)
Fire qualified by smoke
Question No.26 (Question Id - 60)
Which one of the following rules permits the inference that if (p q).(r s) is true, and p
r is also true, then q s must be true ?
(A)
Absorption
(B)
Constructive Dilemma (Correct Answer)
(C)
Disjunctive Syllogism
(D)
Destructive Dilemma
Question No.27 (Question Id - 22)
By which one of the following claims does Rawls maintain the non-negotiability of civil
and political rights in his two principles of justice ?
(A)
Lexical priority of the first principle (Correct Answer)
(B)
Lexical priority of the second principle
(C)
Equal status of both principles
(D)
Reflective equilibrium
Question No.28 (Question Id - 67)
Which one of the following logical expressions is contingent ?
(A)
p p
(B)
p ~ p
(C)
p p (Correct Answer)
(D)
p . ~ p
Question No.29 (Question Id - 20)
Which of the following is the correct sequence of different steps involved in the process
of anumna according to Nyya Philosophy ?
A. Upanaya
B. Udharaa
C. Hetu
D. Nigmana
E. Pratij?
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
(A)
D, C, A, B, E
(B)
E, B, C, A, D
(C)
E, C, B, A, D (Correct Answer)
(D)
E, C, A, B, D
Question No.30 (Question Id - 72)
Cognitivism is a meta-ethical theory which suggests that :
(A)
Ethical judgments essentially express beliefs (Correct Answer)
(B)
Ethical judgments are mind-relative
(C)
Ethics is subjective
(D)
Ethics is God-dependent
Question No.31 (Question Id - 66)
Match List - I with List - II.
List - I
List - II
A. O proposition
I. Distributes subject only
B. E proposition
II. Distributes predicate only
C. I proposition
III. Distributes both subject and predicate
D. A proposition IV. Distributes neither subject and predicate
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
(A)
A - IV, B - I, C - II, D - III
(B)
A - IV, B - II, C - I, D - III
(C)
A - II, B - III, C - IV, D - I (Correct Answer)
(D)
A - II, B - IV, C - I, D - III
Question No.32 (Question Id - 52)
What is that valid form of inference called which proceeds by interchanging the subject
and predicate terms of a proposition ?
(A)
Conversion (Correct Answer)
(B)
Obversion
(C)
Subversion
(D)
Contraposition
Question No.33 (Question Id - 7)
Who among the following thinkers maintains that determinate form and the matter in
which it is embodied are inseparable, both belonging to the real world ?
A. Plato
B. Aristotle
C. Parmenides
D. Spinoza
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
(A)
Only A and B
(B)
Only B (Correct Answer)
(C)
Only A, B and C
(D)
Only D
Question No.34 (Question Id - 29)
What is the correct order of Vedic literature ?
A. Brhmaa
B. rayaka
C. Upaniads
D. Sahit
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
(A)
A, B, D, C
(B)
C, B, A, D
(C)
D, A, B, C (Correct Answer)
(D)
B, A, D, C
Question No.35 (Question Id - 49)
"The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a
civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others".
Select the statement which is not implied by the above statement :
(A)
Liberty consists in the freedom to do everything which injures no one else.
(B)
The exercise of natural rights of each man has no limits except those which
assure to the other members of the society the enjoyment of the same rights.
(C)
Individual liberty is constrained by the pleasure of others. (Correct
Answer)
(D)
Rightful exercise of power is constrained by the concerns of other's harm.
Question No.36 (Question Id - 81)
How many citta-vtti (mental modifications) have been accepted in Yoga Philosophy ?
(A)
Four
(B)
Five (Correct Answer)
(C)
Six
(D)
Seven
Question No.37 (Question Id - 73)
Match List - I with List - II.
List - I
List - II
A. Consequentialism
I. Moral Laws
B. Kantian Deontology II. Maximization of utility
C. Virtue Theory
III. Human expression
D. Emotivism
IV. Character traits
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
(A)
A - II, B - I, C - IV , D - III (Correct Answer)
(B)
A - IV, B - III, C - I, D - II
(C)
A - III, B - IV, C - II, D - I
(D)
A - II, B - III, C - I, D - IV
Question No.38 (Question Id - 75)
Which one of the following is the exact theoretical position implied by "One cannot step
twice in the same river" ?
(A)
Perpetual flux (Correct Answer)
(B)
Non-existence
(C)
Absolutism
(D)
Non-dualism
Question No.39 (Question Id - 56)
Which one of the relation between two propositions says that they cannot both be true,
although they may both be false ?
(A)
Sub-alternation
(B)
Contrary (Correct Answer)
(C)
Contingent
(D)
Contradictory
Question No.40 (Question Id - 68)
What is a logical statement, all of whose substitution instances are false called ?
(A)
Tautology
(B)
Contradictory (Correct Answer)
(C)
Contingent
(D)
Incontingent
Question No.41 (Question Id - 90)
According to Naiyyikas knowledge of an object (Sdhya) from some recognised
similarity between two things (Prasiddhasdharmyta) is known as :
(A)
Vypti
(B)
Linga-paramara
(C)
Upamna (Correct Answer)
(D)
Upanaya
Case Study - 42 to 46 (Question Id - 91)
"What, then, is good ? How is good to be defined ? Now it may be thought that this is a verbal
question. A definition does indeed often mean the expressing of one word's meaning in other words.
But this is not the sort of definition I am asking for. Such a definition can never be of ultimate
importance to any study except lexicography. If I wanted that kind of definition I should have to
consider in the first place how people generally used the word good; but my business is not with its
proper usage, as established by custom. I should, indeed, be foolish if I tried to use it for something
which it did not usually denote : if, for instance, I were to announce that, whenever I used the word
good, I must be understood to be thinking of that object which is usually denoted by the word table. I
shall, therefore, use the word in the sense in which I think it is ordinarily used; but at the same time I
am not anxious to discuss whether I am right in thinking it is so used. My business is solely with that
object or idea, which I hold, rightly or wrongly, that the word is generally used to stand for. What I want
to discover is the nature of that object or idea, and about this I am extremely anxious to arrive at an
agreement.
But if we understand the question in this sense, my answer to it may seem a very disappointing one.
If I am asked, What is good ? my answer is that good is good, and that is the end of the matter. Or if I
am asked How is good to be defined ? my answer is that it cannot be defined, and that is all I have to
say about it. But disappointing as these answers may appear, they are of the very last importance. To
readers who are familiar with philosophic terminology, I can express their importance by saying that
they amount to this : That propositions about the good are all of them synthetic and never analytic; and
that is plainly no trivial matter. And the same thing may be expressed more popularly, by saying that, if
I am right, then nobody can foist upon us such an axiom as that Pleasure is the only good or that The
good is the desired on the pretence that this is the very meaning of the word".
(G.E. Moore, Principia Ethica, 1903)
Question No.42 (Question Id - 92)
What sense of the term good concerns the author in this passage ?
(A)
The customary sense of the term
(B)
Use sense of the term
(C)
The sense in which the object or the idea is denoted by the term (Correct
Answer)
(D)
Linguistic sense of the term
Question No.43 (Question Id - 93)
The author of this passage is engaged in a particular ethical inquiry which is called :
(A)
Metaethics (Correct Answer)
(B)
Normative ethics
(C)
Descriptive ethics
(D)
Pragmatic ethics
Question No.44 (Question Id - 94)
Indefinable nature of the word good means, good is :
(A)
A natural property
(B)
A non-physical property
(C)
A non-natural property (Correct Answer)
(D)
A non-moral property
Question No.45 (Question Id - 95)
Which one of the following is not attributable to G.E. Moore ?
(A)
G.E. Moore is a cognitivist
(B)
G.E. Moore is a naturalist (Correct Answer)
(C)
G.E. Moore is a realist
(D)
G.E. Moore is an intuitionist
Question No.46 (Question Id - 96)
What is the correct nature of ethical judgments, according to Moore ?
(A)
Synthetic judgments (Correct Answer)
(B)
Analytic judgments
(C)
Natural judgments
(D)
Synthetics apriori judgments
Question No.47 (Question Id - 33)
Which one of the following has propagated the concept of `General Will' ?
(A)
Locke
(B)
Hobbes
(C)
Mill
(D)
Rousseau (Correct Answer)
Question No.48 (Question Id - 26)
Which one of the following options correctly defines the Classical Account of
Propositional Knowledge ?
A. Truth
B. Belief
C. Certainty
D. Justification
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
(A)
A, C and D only
(B)
A, B and C only
(C)
B, C and D only
(D)
A, B and D only (Correct Answer)
Question No.49 (Question Id - 6)
Who among the following Philosopher/s maintain/s that there is only being without
becoming ?
A. Parmenides
B. Zeno
C. Aristotle
D. Heraclitus
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
(A)
A only
(B)
C only
(C)
D only
(D)
A and B only (Correct Answer)
Question No.50 (Question Id - 12)
The statement - "I infer from the principle of sufficient reason, among other
consequences, that there are not in Nature two real, absolute beings indiscernible from
each other; because if there were, God and Nature would act without reason in ordering
the one otherwise than the other." Could be attributed to who among the following
thinkers ?
(A)
Descartes
(B)
Leibniz (Correct Answer)
(C)
Locke
(D)
Hegel
Question No.51 (Question Id - 3)
Match List - I with List - II.
List - I
List - II
A. Akhyti
I. Ramanuja
B. Viparita khyti
II. Sankara
C. Anirvachaniya khyti III. Prabhakara
D. Sat khyti
IV. Kumarila
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
(A)
A - II, B - III, C - I, D - IV
(B)
A - III, B - IV, C - II, D - I (Correct Answer)
(C)
A - IV, B - III, C - I, D - II
(D)
A - I, B - IV, C - III, D - II
Question No.52 (Question Id - 79)
There is something wrong about the following two sentences :
A. The yellow hatred kicked the malicious algorithm.
B. My dog sick old to sleep need to be put.
What is wrong with them may be identified in terms of which one of the following ?
(A)
The first one suffers from the problem of semantic and the second one
from the problem of syntactic.
(Correct Answer)
(B)
The first one suffers from the problem of syntactic and the second one from the
problem of semantic.
(C)
Both suffer from the problem of hyperbolic.
(D)
Both suffer from the problem of amphiboly.
Question No.53 (Question Id - 44)
Gandhi's concepts of Swarj and Swadeshi most appropriately refer to :
(A)
Autonomy and self-sufficiency (Correct Answer)
(B)
Social inclusion and exclusion
(C)
Denial of Trusteeship
(D)
Denial of Autonomy
Question No.54 (Question Id - 37)
Which one of the following Philosopher has given concept of God as `Unmoved mover' ?
(A)
Plato
(B)
Descartes
(C)
Aristotle (Correct Answer)
(D)
Spinoza
Question No.55 (Question Id - 15)
Read the following passage and identify whose views does it express ?
`The first was never to accept anything as true if I did not have evident knowledge of its
truth : that is, carefully to avoid precipitate conclusions and preconceptions, and to
include nothing more in my judgements than what presented itself to my mind so clearly
and so distinctly that I had no occasion to doubt it.'
(A)
Descartes (Correct Answer)
(B)
Leibniz
(C)
Locke
(D)
Hegel
Question No.56 (Question Id - 71)
Match List - I with List - II.
List - I
List - II
A. Kapila
I. Sakhya
B. Gautama II. Mmms
C. Jaimini
III. Vaieika
D. Kaada
IV. Nyya
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
(A)
A - II, B - III, C - IV, D - I
(B)
A - III, B - II, C - I, D - IV
(C)
A - I, B - IV, C - II, D - III (Correct Answer)
(D)
A - II, B - I, C - IV, D - III
Question No.57 (Question Id - 57)
Which one of the following statements is correct ?
(A)
Both truth and validity are characteristics of propositions.
(B)
Both truth and validity are characteristics of arguments.
(C)
Truth is a characteristic of propositions while validity is a characteristic of
arguments.
(Correct Answer)
(D)
Truth is a characteristic of arguments while validity is a characteristic of
propositions.
Question No.58 (Question Id - 40)
Which one of the following is true ?
(A)
Prabhkara believes in Svatah Pramyavda and Kumrila believes in
Paratah Pramyavda.
(B)
Kumrila believes in Svatah Pramyavda and Prabhkara believes in
Paratah Pramyavda.
(C)
Both Prabhkara and Kumrila believe in Svatah Pramyavda. (Correct
Answer)
(D)
Both Prabhkara and Kumrila do not believe in Svatah Pramyavda.
Question No.59 (Question Id - 23)
According to Rawls, which one of the following ideas is expressed in his two principles of
justice ?
(A)
Justice as capability
(B)
Justice as merit
(C)
Justice as fairness (Correct Answer)
(D)
Justice as entitlement
Question No.60 (Question Id - 65)
Which one of the following fallacy occurs when the argument relies upon an attack
against the person taking a position ?
(A)
Straw Man
(B)
Red Herring
(C)
Argument ad Hominen (Correct Answer)
(D)
Petitio Principii
Question No.61 (Question Id - 45)
Which one of the following is the criterion truth advocated by Rene Descartes ?
(A)
Clearness and distinctness (Correct Answer)
(B)
True on certain account
(C)
Coherence of ideas
(D)
Correspondence theory
Question No.62 (Question Id - 34)
Which one of the following schools accepts the concept of Prmit ?
(A)
rvka
(B)
Buddhism (Correct Answer)
(C)
Mmms
(D)
Vaieika
Question No.63 (Question Id - 48)
Which one of the following is true of Correspondence Theory of Truth ?
(A)
A belief is true if it corresponds to the world of faith.
(B)
A belief is true if it corresponds to a fact of some kind that exists in the
world. (Correct Answer)
(C)
A belief is true if it corresponds to the forms that exist in our thoughts.
(D)
A belief is true if it corresponds nothing but the belief itself.
Question No.64 (Question Id - 77)
Which one of the following is true with regard to the form of knowledge called
"Knowledge by acquaintance" ?
(A)
The knowledge we get of things by being directly aware of them. (Correct
Answer)
(B)
The knowledge we get of things through inference.
(C)
The knowledge of familiar things of our everyday life.
(D)
The knowledge of things that we inherit from our earlier generation.
Question No.65 (Question Id - 16)
Read the following passage and identify the school of thought it refers to - `The pleasure
arises in men from contact with sensible objects is to be relinquished as accompanied by
pain - such is the reasoning of fools; the berries of the paddy, rich with the finest white
grains - what man, seeking his true interest, would fling away because covered with
husk and dust ?'
(A)
Yoga
(B)
Buddhism
(C)
Jainism
(D)
rvka (Correct Answer)
Question No.66 (Question Id - 51)
Which of the following propositions, according to Boole, have existential import ?
A. A
B. E
C. I
D. O
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
(A)
A, B, C and D
(B)
A and B only
(C)
C and D only (Correct Answer)
(D)
A and C only
Question No.67 (Question Id - 10)
Who among the following Western Philosophers contends that mind can influence the
body through pineal gland ?
(A)
Descartes (Correct Answer)
(B)
Leibniz
(C)
Spinoza
(D)
Hume
Question No.68 (Question Id - 83)
`Every event must have a cause.' What kind of proposition is it according to Kant ?
(A)
Apriori (Correct Answer)
(B)
Aposteriori
(C)
Synthetic
(D)
Analytic
Question No.69 (Question Id - 27)
What is the problem exposed by Gettier in the tripartite definition of Knowledge ?
(A)
It is possible to infer a true justified belief from a false justified belief
(Correct Answer)
(B)
It is possible to infer a false justified belief from a true justified belief
(C)
It is possible to infer a true justified belief from a true justified belief
(D)
It is possible to infer a false justified belief from a false justified belief
Question No.70 (Question Id - 82)
`To infer rain in the past by perceiving muddy water in the pond' is :
(A)
Prvovata anuman
(B)
Sesvatanuman (Correct Answer)
(C)
Samanyatodrta
(D)
Kevalnvayia
Case Study - 71 to 75 (Question Id - 97)
"Analytic judgments say nothing in the predicate except what was actually thought already in the
concept of the subject, though not so clearly nor with the same consciousness. If I say : All bodies are
extended, then I have not in the least amplified my concept of body, but have merely resolved it, since
extension, although not explicitly said of the former concept prior to the judgment, nevertheless was
actually thought of it; the judgment is therefore analytic. By contrast, the proposition : Some bodies
are heavy, contains something in the predicate that is not actually thought in the general concept of
body; it therefore augments my cognition, [4 : 267] since it adds something to my concept, and must
therefore be called a synthetic judgment".
Question No.71 (Question Id - 98)
According to Kant, analytic/synthetic distinction pertains to :
(A)
Knowledge
(B)
Judgment (Correct Answer)
(C)
Concept
(D)
Sensations
Question No.72 (Question Id - 99)
In analytic judgment :
(A)
The subject is contained in the predicate
(B)
The predicate is contained in the subject (Correct Answer)
(C)
The subject and the predicate are contained in each other
(D)
Subject is contained in the verb
Question No.73 (Question Id - 100)
According to Kant :
(A)
Analytic judgment is necessarily synthetic
(B)
Analytic judgment is necessarily aposteriori
(C)
Analytic judgment is necessarily apriori (Correct Answer)
(D)
Aposteriori judgment is necessarily analytic
Question No.74 (Question Id - 101)
According to Kant, Scientific knowledge is :
(A)
Synthetic
(B)
Analytic
(C)
Apriori
(D)
Synthetic apriori (Correct Answer)
Question No.75 (Question Id - 102)
According to Kant 7 + 5 = 12 is :
(A)
An analytic apriori judgment
(B)
An analytic aposteriori judgment
(C)
A synthetic apriori judgment (Correct Answer)
(D)
A synthetic aposteriori judgment
Question No.76 (Question Id - 30)
The mahvkya Aham Bramhasmi ( ) (I am Brahman), has been taken from :
(A)
Mundaka Upaniada
(B)
Katha () Upaniada
(C)
Brihdrayaka Upaniada (Correct Answer)
(D)
Chndogya () Upaniada
Question No.77 (Question Id - 18)
The statement - "Pushpin is as good as poetry" can be attributed to which one of the
following Philosophers ?
(A)
Bentham (Correct Answer)
(B)
Kant
(C)
Heidegger
(D)
Husserl
Question No.78 (Question Id - 59)
Which formal fallacy is committed in a categorical syllogism when a particular conclusion
is inferred from two universal premises ?
(A)
Fallacy of Illicit Minor
(B)
Existential Fallacy (Correct Answer)
(C)
Fallacy of Exclusive Premises
(D)
Fallacy of Illicit Major
Question No.79 (Question Id - 63)
Which one of the following forms of categorical syllogisms is valid in the fourth
figure ?
(A)
OAA
(B)
OEO
(C)
EIO (Correct Answer)
(D)
EAO
Question No.80 (Question Id - 64)
Match List - I with List - II.
List - I
List - II
I. p q
A. Modus Tollens
~ p
q
II. (p q) . (r s)
B. Hypothetical Syllogism p r
q s
III. p q
C. Disjunctive Syllogism ~ q
~ p
IV. p q
D. Constructive Dilemma q r
p r
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
(A)
A - III, B - I, C - II, D - IV
(B)
A - III, B - IV, C - I, D - II (Correct Answer)
(C)
A - IV, B - III, C - II, D - I
(D)
A - IV, B - III, C - I, D - II
Question No.81 (Question Id - 89)
Which Pramna is chiefly used in Nyya Philosophy to prove the existence of God ?
(A)
Upamna (analogy)
(B)
Anumna (inference) (Correct Answer)
(C)
Laukika Pratyaka (Ordinary perception)
(D)
Alaukika Pratyaka (Extra-ordinary perception)
Question No.82 (Question Id - 38)
How many autonomies have been accepted by Kant ?
(A)
Four (Correct Answer)
(B)
Six
(C)
Eight
(D)
Twelve
Question No.83 (Question Id - 50)
Which of the following can be said with respect to the definition of an Open Question ?
(A)
A question which has no answer.
(B)
A question is open if the meanings of the terms in the question do not
decide the matter.
(Correct Answer)
(C)
Any question that is self-contradictory in nature.
(D)
A question which limits further opinion
Question No.84 (Question Id - 32)
Which one of the following is correct according to spinoza ?
(A)
Thought and extension both are not attributes of God. God does not have
infinite number of other attributes.
(B)
Thought and extension both are attributes of God. God has also an
infinite number of other attributes.
(Correct Answer)
(C)
Only thought is attribute of God not extension. God has finite number of other
attributes.
(D)
Only extension is attribute of God not thought. God has also finite number of
attributes.
Question No.85 (Question Id - 88)
Which type of argument to prove the existence of God is used by St. Anselm ?
(A)
Ontological Argument (Correct Answer)
(B)
Cosmological Argument
(C)
Argument from Design
(D)
Teleological Argument
Question No.86 (Question Id - 46)
Who among the following regards that personal identity is not possible to establish ?
(A)
Hume (Correct Answer)
(B)
Hegel
(C)
Aristotle
(D)
St. Anselm
Question No.87 (Question Id - 61)
Which one of the following principle asserts that if any statement is true, then it is true ?
(A)
Principle of Contradiction
(B)
Principle of Non-contradiction
(C)
Principle of Identity (Correct Answer)
(D)
Principle of Excluded Middle
Question No.88 (Question Id - 14)
Identify the author of the following passage from the options given thereafter :
"When we entertain, therefore, any suspicion that a philosophical term is employed
without any meaning or idea (as is but too frequent), we need but enquire, from what
impression is that supposed idea derived ? And if it be impossible to assign any, this will
serve to confirm our suspicion."
(A)
Locke
(B)
Hume (Correct Answer)
(C)
Berkley
(D)
Plato
Question No.89 (Question Id - 36)
Which one of the following is Nstika Philosopher according to traditional classification of
Indian Philosophy ?
(A)
Kumrila
(B)
Dharmakirti (Correct Answer)
(C)
Udyana
(D)
Rmnuja
Question No.90 (Question Id - 25)
Which principle is expressed through Kant's first Categorical Imperative that "Act only
according to that maxim whereby at the same time will that it should become a universal
law ?"
(A)
Principle of Individuality
(B)
Principle of Equity
(C)
Principle of Utility
(D)
Principle of Universalizability (Correct Answer)
Question No.91 (Question Id - 19)
Which one of the following is not true according to Determinism ?
(A)
Whatever we think or do is always caused
(B)
What we think is the inevitable consequence of antecedent circumstance
(C)
Everything is beyond our control
(D)
Everything is matter of luck (Correct Answer)
Question No.92 (Question Id - 78)
Which one of the following statement is true with regard to the theory of moral
realism ?
(A)
We can attribute truth or falsity to moral matters. (Correct Answer)
(B)
We can prove moral statement through scientific methods.
(C)
Moral statements are based on our subjective experience.
(D)
God is the only source of moral reality.
Question No.93 (Question Id - 13)
Given below are two statements :
Statement I :
According to Locke certain qualities of an object lie in the object itself independent of the
perceiving subject.
Statement II :
According to Locke certain qualities of an object are dependent on the perceiving subject
even though their cause lies in the object itself.
In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the
options given below :
(A)
Both Statement I and Statement II are correct. (Correct Answer)
(B)
Both Statement I and Statement II are incorrect.
(C)
Statement I is correct but Statement II is incorrect.
(D)
Statement I is incorrect but Statement II is correct.
Question No.94 (Question Id - 53)
What is a statement form called all of whose substitution instances must be true ?
(A)
Contradictory
(B)
Contingent
(C)
Tautologous (Correct Answer)
(D)
Counterfactual
Question No.95 (Question Id - 58)
Which one of the following definitions identifies the extension of a term by listing the
members of the class of objects to which the term refers ?
(A)
Precising definition
(B)
Denotative definition (Correct Answer)
(C)
Theoretical definition
(D)
Persuasive definition
Question No.96 (Question Id - 87)
Justice is one of the four cardinal virtues Plato spoke of in his :
(A)
The Republic (Correct Answer)
(B)
Apology
(C)
Gorgias
(D)
Protagoras
Question No.97 (Question Id - 76)
"The only thing I know is that I know nothing" which one of the following is challenged by
this Socratic statement ?
(A)
Solipsism
(B)
Dogmatism (Correct Answer)
(C)
Empiricism
(D)
Rationalism
Question No.98 (Question Id - 41)
Match List - I with List - II.
List - I
List - II
A. Everything changes
I. Parmenides
B. Nothing changes
II. Anaximander
C. Ultimate reality is infinite, eternal and ageless III. Heraclitus
D. The soul is air; fire is rarefied air
IV. Anaximenes
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
(A)
A - II, B - III, C - IV, D - I
(B)
A - I, B - II, C - III, D - IV
(C)
A - III, B - I, C - II, D - IV (Correct Answer)
(D)
A - IV, B - III, C - I, D - II
Question No.99 (Question Id - 55)
Which one of the following expressions is not equivalent to p q ?
(A)
It is not the case that p, or q
(B)
p is a sufficient condition for q
(C)
p is a necessary condition for q (Correct Answer)
(D)
p entails q
Question No.100 (Question Id - 24)
Which one of the following instances is not an example of Samavya relation in
Vaieika School ?
(A)
Cowness in a cow
(B)
Redness in a red coloured cloth
(C)
Motion in a running wheel
(D)
Book on a table (Correct Answer)
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