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These multiple-choice questions (MCQs) are designed to enhance your knowledge and understanding in the following areas: Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy (BA Philosophy) .
| 251. |
For ______________, knowledge is a posteriori. |
| A. | Rationalists |
| B. | Idealists |
| C. | Intuitionists |
| D. | Empiricists |
| Answer» D. Empiricists | |
| 252. |
For ______________, true knowledge is a priori. |
| A. | Empiricists |
| B. | Idealists |
| C. | Intuitionists |
| D. | Rationalists |
| Answer» D. Rationalists | |
| 253. |
According to Locke, qualities are divided into __________. |
| A. | a priori and a posteriori |
| B. | physical and mental |
| C. | primary and secondary |
| D. | empirical and spiritual |
| Answer» C. primary and secondary | |
| 254. |
____________ is the dictum of Subjective Idealism. |
| A. | Cogito ergo sum |
| B. | esse est percipi |
| C. | both (a) and (b) |
| D. | neither (a) nor (b) |
| Answer» B. esse est percipi | |
| 255. |
The term Tabula rasa implies the rejection of _____________. |
| A. | sense experience |
| B. | empiricism |
| C. | innate ideas |
| D. | primary qualities |
| Answer» C. innate ideas | |
| 256. |
Mentalism is another term for _____________. |
| A. | Subjective Idealism |
| B. | Rationalism |
| C. | Absolute Idealism |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» A. Subjective Idealism | |
| 257. |
Ideas do not exist without a perceiving mind. This is the argument of __________. |
| A. | Locke |
| B. | Spinoza |
| C. | Berkeley |
| D. | Marx |
| Answer» C. Berkeley | |
| 258. |
_________ rejected the existence of a material substance apart from the perceiver’s idea. |
| A. | Berkeley |
| B. | Locke |
| C. | Spinoza |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» A. Berkeley | |
| 259. |
Hume divided all perceptions into ____________. |
| A. | primary and secondary |
| B. | impressions and ideas |
| C. | matter and mind |
| D. | innate and acquired |
| Answer» B. impressions and ideas | |
| 260. |
__________ proposed the Law of Association of Ideas. |
| A. | Locke |
| B. | Spinoza |
| C. | Berkeley |
| D. | Hume |
| Answer» D. Hume | |
| 261. |
According to Hume, our idea of causation is only the result of a constant __________ of ideas. |
| A. | impression |
| B. | dissociation |
| C. | separation |
| D. | conjunction |
| Answer» D. conjunction | |
| 262. |
According to Hume, our idea of causation does not imply ________. |
| A. | perception |
| B. | necessity |
| C. | contingency |
| D. | any of these |
| Answer» B. necessity | |
| 263. |
In Locke’s system, __________ is a primary quality. |
| A. | colour |
| B. | sound |
| C. | smell |
| D. | extension |
| Answer» D. extension | |
| 264. |
According to Locke, solidity and extension are ___________ qualities. |
| A. | primary |
| B. | secondary |
| C. | both (a) and (b) |
| D. | neither (a) nor (b) |
| Answer» A. primary | |
| 265. |
_________ is not included in Locke’s catalogue of primary qualities. |
| A. | extension |
| B. | solidity |
| C. | colour |
| D. | figure |
| Answer» C. colour | |
| 266. |
According to Locke, there are no _________ ideas and hence mind is a tabula rasa. |
| A. | clear |
| B. | sensible |
| C. | innate |
| D. | complex |
| Answer» C. innate | |
| 267. |
‘If no one perceives a thing, God always perceives everything’. This is the view of ________. |
| A. | Berkeley |
| B. | Spinoza |
| C. | Descartes |
| D. | Hume |
| Answer» A. Berkeley | |
| 268. |
Both Locke and Berkeley are ____________. |
| A. | Empiricists |
| B. | Idealists |
| C. | Occasionalists |
| D. | Rationalists |
| Answer» A. Empiricists | |
| 269. |
___________ ends up in skepticism regarding any certain knowledge. |
| A. | Spinoza |
| B. | Descartes |
| C. | Locke |
| D. | Hume |
| Answer» D. Hume | |
| 270. |
___________ is the author of the Critique of Pure Reason. |
| A. | Berkeley |
| B. | Kant |
| C. | Locke |
| D. | Descartes |
| Answer» B. Kant | |
| 271. |
In a/an ___________ proposition, the predicate is part of the subject. |
| A. | synthetic |
| B. | analytic |
| C. | empirical |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. analytic | |
| 272. |
___________ knowledge is independent of sense experience. |
| A. | a priori |
| B. | a posteriori |
| C. | both (a) and (b) |
| D. | neither (a) nor (b) |
| Answer» A. a priori | |
| 273. |
According to Kant, causality is a/an ____________ concept. |
| A. | empirical |
| B. | synthetic a priori |
| C. | synthetic a posteriori |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» B. synthetic a priori | |
| 274. |
Noumena refer to ___________. |
| A. | thing-in-itself |
| B. | sensible objects |
| C. | empirical reality |
| D. | all these |
| Answer» A. thing-in-itself | |
| 275. |
According to Kant, sensibility and __________ constitute knowledge. |
| A. | perception |
| B. | causality |
| C. | understanding |
| D. | noumena |
| Answer» C. understanding | |
| 276. |
According to Kant, space and time are the ___________ conditions of all knowledge. |
| A. | possible |
| B. | a priori |
| C. | a posteriori |
| D. | perceived |
| Answer» B. a priori | |
| 277. |
According to Kant, human reason cannot have genuine knowledge about the ____________. |
| A. | phenomena |
| B. | noumena |
| C. | both (a) and (b) |
| D. | neither (a) nor (b) |
| Answer» B. noumena | |
| 278. |
In Kant’s table of judgments, universal, particular and singular represent ___________. |
| A. | quality |
| B. | modality |
| C. | relation |
| D. | quantity |
| Answer» D. quantity | |
| 279. |
__________ is/are applicable to Hegel. 1. German 2. Materialist 3. Idealist 4. Absolutist |
| A. | Only 1 |
| B. | All except 2 |
| C. | All except 4 |
| D. | Both 1 and 2 |
| Answer» B. All except 2 | |
| 280. |
Dialectic has a central place in the philosophy of ____________. |
| A. | Hegel |
| B. | Marx |
| C. | both (a) and (b) |
| D. | neither (a) nor (b) |
| Answer» C. both (a) and (b) | |
| 281. |
Marx had rejected the __________ in Hegelian philosophy. |
| A. | idealism |
| B. | dialectic |
| C. | materialism |
| D. | all these |
| Answer» A. idealism | |
| 282. |
“The real is rational and the rational is real”. This is the crux of _________ philosophy. |
| A. | Cartesian |
| B. | Kantian |
| C. | Hegelian |
| D. | Marxian |
| Answer» C. Hegelian | |
| 283. |
The first of the dialectical triad is ___________. |
| A. | thesis |
| B. | antithesis |
| C. | synthesis |
| D. | all these |
| Answer» A. thesis | |
| 284. |
In Hegelian dialectic, __________ is the synthesis stage. |
| A. | Being |
| B. | Non-being |
| C. | Becoming |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. Becoming | |
| 285. |
Dialectical development involves the negation of ____________. |
| A. | Becoming |
| B. | reasoning |
| C. | relation |
| D. | negation |
| Answer» D. negation | |
| 286. |
Berkeley and Hegel are ____________. |
| A. | Empiricists |
| B. | Idealists |
| C. | Materialists |
| D. | Skeptics |
| Answer» B. Idealists | |
| 287. |
In Hegel’s philosophy, ____________ is the ultimate reality. |
| A. | God |
| B. | Dialectics |
| C. | Material world |
| D. | Absolute Idea |
| Answer» D. Absolute Idea | |
| 288. |
The source of Marxian materialism is ____________. |
| A. | Feuerbach |
| B. | Hegel |
| C. | Engels |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» A. Feuerbach | |
| 289. |
__________ is the author of Phenomenology of Spirit. |
| A. | Feuerbach |
| B. | Engels |
| C. | Hegel |
| D. | Marx |
| Answer» C. Hegel | |
| 290. |
Marx insisted on the philosopher’s task of ____________ the world. |
| A. | interpreting |
| B. | changing |
| C. | understanding |
| D. | negating |
| Answer» B. changing | |
| 291. |
According to Marx, ___________ is the lever of social change. |
| A. | Absolute Idea |
| B. | Class war |
| C. | Love |
| D. | God |
| Answer» B. Class war | |
| 292. |
The necessary and basic cause of class war, according to Marx, is ___________. |
| A. | economic |
| B. | cultural |
| C. | religious |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» A. economic | |
| 293. |
Marxian revolution aims at the liberation of the ____________ class. |
| A. | ruling |
| B. | bourgeois |
| C. | working |
| D. | noble |
| Answer» C. working | |
| 294. |
Marx conceived ____________as the necessary culmination of class war. |
| A. | dialectics |
| B. | proletariat dictatorship |
| C. | capitalism |
| D. | historical materialism |
| Answer» B. proletariat dictatorship | |
| 295. |
__________ was closely associated with Marx in developing his philosophy. |
| A. | Engels |
| B. | Hegel |
| C. | Feuerbach |
| D. | Lenin |
| Answer» A. Engels | |
| 296. |
Bourgeoisie vs. Proletariat determines the class conflict in ___________ society. |
| A. | Feudal |
| B. | Communist |
| C. | Capitalist |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» C. Capitalist | |
| 297. |
Who among the following is NOT a rationalist thinker? |
| A. | John Locke |
| B. | Rene Descartes |
| C. | Benedict Spinoza |
| D. | W. Leibniz |
| Answer» A. John Locke | |
| 298. |
Who among the following is an empiricist thinker? |
| A. | Rene Descartes |
| B. | Benedict Spinoza |
| C. | William Leibniz |
| D. | David Hume |
| Answer» D. David Hume | |
| 299. |
Who among the following is a rationalist thinker? |
| A. | John Locke |
| B. | George Berkeley |
| C. | David Hume |
| D. | Rene Descartes |
| Answer» D. Rene Descartes | |
| 300. |
The view that knowledge is attained through reason not the senses is called: |
| A. | Idealism |
| B. | Positivism |
| C. | Rationalism |
| D. | Empiricism |
| Answer» C. Rationalism | |
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