McqMate
These multiple-choice questions (MCQs) are designed to enhance your knowledge and understanding in the following areas: Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy (BA Philosophy) .
| 351. |
According to Spinoza, body and mind |
| A. | Are causally independent |
| B. | interact with each other |
| C. | are parallel to each other |
| D. | are providentially synchronized by God |
| Answer» C. are parallel to each other | |
| 352. |
The view that one may consider God both as Naturanaturans and Natruanaturata is maintained by: |
| A. | Thomas Aquinas |
| B. | Spinoza |
| C. | Leibnitz |
| D. | Berkeley |
| Answer» B. Spinoza | |
| 353. |
The fundamental property of substance is known as: |
| A. | Modes |
| B. | Attribute |
| C. | Thought |
| D. | Extension |
| Answer» B. Attribute | |
| 354. |
…….. declares that there are no substances other than God. |
| A. | Spinoza |
| B. | Kant |
| C. | Hume |
| D. | Locke |
| Answer» A. Spinoza | |
| 355. |
Who declares that there are no substances other than God |
| A. | Spinoza |
| B. | Kant |
| C. | Hume |
| D. | Locke |
| Answer» A. Spinoza | |
| 356. |
Spinoza is an advocate of |
| A. | Dualism |
| B. | Pantheism |
| C. | Materialism |
| D. | Empiricism |
| Answer» B. Pantheism | |
| 357. |
What did Benedict Spinoza think a person is |
| A. | a mode of God/Nature |
| B. | an immaterial mind |
| C. | a physical body |
| D. | an immaterial mind in a physical body. |
| Answer» A. a mode of God/Nature | |
| 358. |
‘There can only one substance which is causasui (cause of itself) and this single substance must be identified with the universe a whole. This unique all inclusive totality is therefore God or Nature’ whose statement? |
| A. | Hegel |
| B. | Marx |
| C. | Hume |
| D. | Spinoza |
| Answer» D. Spinoza | |
| 359. |
The position of psycho-physical parallelism is advocated by: |
| A. | Descartes |
| B. | Spinoza |
| C. | Leibniz |
| D. | Locke. |
| Answer» B. Spinoza | |
| 360. |
God according to Leibniz is: |
| A. | Central Monad |
| B. | Queen Monad |
| C. | Soul Monad |
| D. | Monad of Monads |
| Answer» D. Monad of Monads | |
| 361. |
Monadology is the famous work of: |
| A. | Descartes |
| B. | Spinoza |
| C. | Leibniz |
| D. | Berkeley |
| Answer» C. Leibniz | |
| 362. |
A monad is explained as: |
| A. | Physical atom |
| B. | Unit of force |
| C. | Matter |
| D. | Mind |
| Answer» B. Unit of force | |
| 363. |
Leibniz advocated the theory of: |
| A. | Interactionism |
| B. | Pre-established harmony |
| C. | Parallelism |
| D. | Monism |
| Answer» B. Pre-established harmony | |
| 364. |
Doctrine of monads is advocated by: |
| A. | Spinoza |
| B. | Leibniz |
| C. | Berkeley |
| D. | Hume |
| Answer» B. Leibniz | |
| 365. |
For Leibnitz, monad is windowless because |
| A. | It is absolutely free from external influence |
| B. | It is extended |
| C. | It is composite body |
| D. | It is something material |
| Answer» A. It is absolutely free from external influence | |
| 366. |
…………. Admits innumerable monads or spiritual atoms |
| A. | Leibnitz |
| B. | Hume |
| C. | Berkeley |
| D. | Locke |
| Answer» A. Leibnitz | |
| 367. |
.............. thinks that substance is to be defined by active force |
| A. | Spinoza |
| B. | Hume |
| C. | Descartes |
| D. | Leibnitz |
| Answer» D. Leibnitz | |
| 368. |
The monads are …… and everything is potential or implicit in it |
| A. | Very strong |
| B. | active |
| C. | Windowless |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. Windowless | |
| 369. |
Which among is NOT correct regarding monads |
| A. | Windowless |
| B. | Spiritual |
| C. | Perceive each other |
| D. | Active force |
| Answer» C. Perceive each other | |
| 370. |
Leibnitz defines substance or ‘monad’ as |
| A. | Active force |
| B. | physical object |
| C. | mental object |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» A. Active force | |
| 371. |
Every monad is a …… of the universe which generates the images of things by its own activity |
| A. | Clear aspect |
| B. | definite explanation |
| C. | Living mirror |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» C. Living mirror | |
| 372. |
Leibnitz philosophy is |
| A. | Monistic |
| B. | Dualistic |
| C. | Pluralistic |
| D. | Materialistic |
| Answer» C. Pluralistic | |
| 373. |
Which among the following is NOT applicable to Leibnitz |
| A. | God is the creator of harmony |
| B. | Extension is real |
| C. | The monads are eternal and can be destroyed only by miracle on the part of God. |
| D. | No monad has any part and therefore is truly indivisible. |
| Answer» B. Extension is real | |
| 374. |
Leibnitz claims that there is only a …….. between soul and body, instituted by God |
| A. | Complete substance |
| B. | Complete correspondence |
| C. | Complete interactionism |
| D. | All of these |
| Answer» B. Complete correspondence | |
| 375. |
Mind is a ‘tabula rasa’ according to: |
| A. | Berkeley |
| B. | Locke |
| C. | Descartes |
| D. | Spinoza |
| Answer» B. Locke | |
| 376. |
John Locke rejected the concept of: |
| A. | Substance |
| B. | Innate Ideas |
| C. | Experience |
| D. | Primary Qualities |
| Answer» B. Innate Ideas | |
| 377. |
There must be an unknown and unknowable substratum which supports the existence of ……….. qualities |
| A. | Primary |
| B. | Secondary |
| C. | Basic |
| D. | Both primary and secondary |
| Answer» A. Primary | |
| 378. |
The secondary properties of substance are known as …………. |
| A. | Modes |
| B. | Attribute |
| C. | Relative property |
| D. | Substance |
| Answer» A. Modes | |
| 379. |
Which one of the following according to Locke is correct description of substance? |
| A. | Substance is spiritual in nature |
| B. | Substance has both real and nominal essences. |
| C. | Substance is a known locus of qualities. |
| D. | Substance is the cause of the world |
| Answer» C. Substance is a known locus of qualities. | |
| 380. |
Locke suggests that mind knows directly the ……. and not the objects themselves. |
| A. | Sensations |
| B. | Ideas of the object |
| C. | Qualities |
| D. | none of the above |
| Answer» B. Ideas of the object | |
| 381. |
Which one of the following according to Locke justifies the distinction between primary and secondary qualities? |
| A. | God has created primary qualities |
| B. | Secondary qualities are given in experience |
| C. | Primary qualities and secondary qualities are logically different |
| D. | Primary qualities are objective while secondary qualities are subjective |
| Answer» D. Primary qualities are objective while secondary qualities are subjective | |
| 382. |
John Locke has divided the qualities of things into ……… and …….. |
| A. | A priori, a posteriori |
| B. | Empirical, intuitive |
| C. | Primary, secondary |
| D. | All of these |
| Answer» C. Primary, secondary | |
| 383. |
As an empiricist, Locke claims that all our knowledge is derived either through sensation or ……. |
| A. | Perception |
| B. | Reflection |
| C. | Thinking |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. Reflection | |
| 384. |
Which one of the following is true of Locke’s view of substance? |
| A. | Substance is the sum of qualities |
| B. | Substance is the substratum of qualities |
| C. | Substance is the sum of ideas. |
| D. | Substance is the logical construction of sense data |
| Answer» A. Substance is the sum of qualities | |
| 385. |
Which one of the following arguments is advance by Locke for the rejection of innate ideas? |
| A. | If there were innate ideas, then all human beings would be identical |
| B. | If there were innate ideas then we should find them expressed in infants and untutored savages. |
| C. | If there were innate ideas then there must be a God who generates them |
| D. | If there were innate ideas than human beings should be eternal. |
| Answer» B. If there were innate ideas then we should find them expressed in infants and untutored savages. | |
| 386. |
Which one of the following is the correct definition of secondary qualities, according to Locke? |
| A. | Secondary qualities are nothing in the objects themselves but powers to produce sensations in us by their primary qualities. |
| B. | Secondary qualities are those which are imposed on the external objects by human mind. |
| C. | Secondary qualities are those that vary according to variations in conditions of perception |
| D. | Secondary qualities are those whose ideas are not exact resemblances of qualities of objects. |
| Answer» A. Secondary qualities are nothing in the objects themselves but powers to produce sensations in us by their primary qualities. | |
| 387. |
Which among the following is NOT Locke’ view of ideas |
| A. | The mind is active in the reception of simple ideas |
| B. | The mind becomes active, when we get complex ideas |
| C. | Simple ideas are directly known as the contents of actual experience |
| D. | All ideas originate with and from experience |
| Answer» A. The mind is active in the reception of simple ideas | |
| 388. |
An example for secondary quality |
| A. | colour |
| B. | figure |
| C. | extension |
| D. | solidity |
| Answer» A. colour | |
| 389. |
An example for primary quality |
| A. | colour |
| B. | taste |
| C. | Sound |
| D. | number |
| Answer» D. number | |
| 390. |
A …………. is one which ‘being in itself uncompounded, contains in it nothing but one uniform appearance or conception in the mind and is no distinguishable into different ideas’. In other words it is an unanalyzable simple datum of knowledge. |
| A. | Simple Idea |
| B. | Complex Idea |
| C. | Mode |
| D. | Reflection |
| Answer» A. Simple Idea | |
| 391. |
Empiricism is the epistemological theory that the only source of knowledge about the external world is |
| A. | Reason |
| B. | intuition |
| C. | logic |
| D. | sense experience |
| Answer» D. sense experience | |
| 392. |
The philosophical position of Berkeley is known as: |
| A. | Subjective Idealism |
| B. | Innate Ideas |
| C. | Realism |
| D. | Absolute Idealism |
| Answer» A. Subjective Idealism | |
| 393. |
‘To be is to be perceived’ according to: |
| A. | Berkeley |
| B. | Locke |
| C. | Hume |
| D. | Hegel |
| Answer» A. Berkeley | |
| 394. |
Who claims that only mind and their ideas exist |
| A. | Spinoza |
| B. | Berkeley |
| C. | Locke |
| D. | Kant |
| Answer» B. Berkeley | |
| 395. |
Berkeley asserts that existing and perceiving are |
| A. | One and the same thing |
| B. | Both nonexistent |
| C. | Two distinct things |
| D. | Imaginary |
| Answer» A. One and the same thing | |
| 396. |
Berkeley insists that heat and cold are ….. |
| A. | Illusions |
| B. | physical object |
| C. | Only things existing apart from our minds |
| D. | Only sensations existing in our minds |
| Answer» D. Only sensations existing in our minds | |
| 397. |
What did George Berkeley mean about such things as tables and chairs when he denied the existence of matter? |
| A. | There are no unperceived tables and chairs. |
| B. | There are no tables and chairs |
| C. | Tables and chairs are really just swarms of particles in motion |
| D. | Everything, including tables and chairs, is an illusion. |
| Answer» A. There are no unperceived tables and chairs. | |
| 398. |
What was Berkeley’s explanation for the fact that things like rocks and trees seem to continue to exist even when humans don’t perceive them? |
| A. | They are material objects, so naturally they can exist unperceived. |
| B. | Appearances are deceiving. In fact such things do cease to be when we no longer perceive them |
| C. | Being partly mental, they continue to exist because they can perceive themselves. |
| D. | God always perceives them. |
| Answer» D. God always perceives them. | |
| 399. |
Berkeley rejects Locke’s distinction between primary and secondary qualities because |
| A. | All qualities are subjective |
| B. | Only secondary qualities are subjective |
| C. | Qualities are created by God |
| D. | Qualities inhere in substances |
| Answer» A. All qualities are subjective | |
| 400. |
As all beings are particular things, so all ideas are particular ideas, is said by |
| A. | Locke |
| B. | Berkeley |
| C. | Descartes |
| D. | Kant |
| Answer» B. Berkeley | |
Done Studing? Take A Test.
Great job completing your study session! Now it's time to put your knowledge to the test. Challenge yourself, see how much you've learned, and identify areas for improvement. Don’t worry, this is all part of the journey to mastery. Ready for the next step? Take a quiz to solidify what you've just studied.