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) .
| 1. |
is defined as the science of reasoning. |
| A. | ethics |
| B. | aesthetics |
| C. | logic |
| D. | psychology |
| Answer» C. logic | |
| 2. |
Logic is a science. |
| A. | normative |
| B. | positive |
| C. | physical |
| D. | natural |
| Answer» A. normative | |
| 3. |
Logic aims precisely at the search for . |
| A. | beauty |
| B. | truth |
| C. | good |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» B. truth | |
| 4. |
is a normative study. |
| A. | logic |
| B. | aesthetics |
| C. | ethics |
| D. | all these |
| Answer» D. all these | |
| 5. |
is not a positive science. |
| A. | biology |
| B. | physics |
| C. | sociology |
| D. | logic |
| Answer» D. logic | |
| 6. |
Logic deals with the operations of human mind in its search for _. |
| A. | beauty |
| B. | conduct |
| C. | truth |
| D. | all these |
| Answer» C. truth | |
| 7. |
is the verbal expression of judgment. |
| A. | logic |
| B. | proposition |
| C. | truth |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» B. proposition | |
| 8. |
A is that which serves either as the subject or as the predicate in a proposition. |
| A. | term |
| B. | word |
| C. | argument |
| D. | sentence |
| Answer» A. term | |
| 9. |
A valid deductive argument with true premise and conclusion is called a argument. |
| A. | sound |
| B. | true |
| C. | false |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» A. sound | |
| 10. |
A/an contains premises and conclusion. |
| A. | proposition |
| B. | argument |
| C. | sentence |
| D. | term |
| Answer» B. argument | |
| 11. |
Positive sciences are . |
| A. | descriptive |
| B. | prescriptive |
| C. | normative |
| D. | all these |
| Answer» A. descriptive | |
| 12. |
Normative sciences are . |
| A. | conservative |
| B. | prescriptive |
| C. | descriptive |
| D. | all these |
| Answer» B. prescriptive | |
| 13. |
is the process of passing from known judgments to a new judgment. |
| A. | inference |
| B. | imagination |
| C. | argument |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» A. inference | |
| 14. |
Identify the odd one. |
| A. | logic |
| B. | physics |
| C. | ethics |
| D. | aesthetics |
| Answer» B. physics | |
| 15. |
Identify the wrong combination. |
| A. | logic and reasoning |
| B. | ethics and good |
| C. | logic and imagination |
| D. | logic and inference |
| Answer» C. logic and imagination | |
| 16. |
Logic is related to as Ethics is to good. |
| A. | beauty |
| B. | truth |
| C. | proposition |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» B. truth | |
| 17. |
Aesthetics is related to as Logic is to truth. |
| A. | right |
| B. | reasoning |
| C. | inspiration |
| D. | beauty |
| Answer» D. beauty | |
| 18. |
Logic prescribes the means to distinguish between correct and incorrect . |
| A. | moral choice |
| B. | norms of beauty |
| C. | reasoning |
| D. | sentence |
| Answer» C. reasoning | |
| 19. |
Deductive logic is concerned with the of arguments. |
| A. | form |
| B. | content |
| C. | material truth |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» A. form | |
| 20. |
Deductive logic is not concerned with the of arguments. |
| A. | form |
| B. | content |
| C. | premises |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» B. content | |
| 21. |
In argument, the conclusion cannot be wider than the premises. |
| A. | deductive |
| B. | inductive |
| C. | both (a) and (b) |
| D. | neither (a) nor (b) |
| Answer» A. deductive | |
| 22. |
In deduction, the conclusion is . |
| A. | probable |
| B. | ambiguous |
| C. | necessary |
| D. | all these |
| Answer» C. necessary | |
| 23. |
In deduction, the conclusion is related to premises by . |
| A. | probability |
| B. | ambiguity |
| C. | chance |
| D. | implication |
| Answer» D. implication | |
| 24. |
In , the conclusion necessarily follows from the given premises. |
| A. | proposition |
| B. | induction |
| C. | deduction |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» C. deduction | |
| 25. |
In , the conclusion is always probable. |
| A. | induction |
| B. | deduction |
| C. | formal logic |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» A. induction | |
| 26. |
is to argument as truth is to proposition. |
| A. | inference |
| B. | deduction |
| C. | induction |
| D. | validity |
| Answer» D. validity | |
| 27. |
A proposition is true or false as a/an is valid or invalid. |
| A. | induction |
| B. | argument |
| C. | premise |
| D. | term |
| Answer» B. argument | |
| 28. |
A logical sentence is called . |
| A. | proposition |
| B. | argument |
| C. | premise |
| D. | explanation |
| Answer» A. proposition | |
| 29. |
Learning is a way to improve reasoning power. |
| A. | athletics |
| B. | music |
| C. | logic |
| D. | cookery |
| Answer» C. logic | |
| 30. |
refers to the process of drawing conclusion from observed instances. |
| A. | induction |
| B. | deduction |
| C. | conversion |
| D. | obversion |
| Answer» A. induction | |
| 31. |
Logic is indispensable for . a) Science b) Law c) Criminology d) all these 32. Induction and deduction are processes of reasoning. |
| A. | contradictory |
| B. | complementary |
| C. | opposite |
| D. | competing |
| Answer» D. competing | |
| 32. |
‘What ought to be’ is the concern of sciences. |
| A. | positive |
| B. | social |
| C. | physical |
| D. | normative |
| Answer» D. normative | |
| 33. |
shares the same area of study with logic. |
| A. | sociology |
| B. | psychology |
| C. | mathematics |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» B. psychology | |
| 34. |
Logic is to as grammar is to language. |
| A. | religion |
| B. | science |
| C. | society |
| D. | politics |
| Answer» B. science | |
| 35. |
Logical sentence is called __________. |
| A. | proposition |
| B. | proprium |
| C. | preposition |
| D. | idiom |
| Answer» A. proposition | |
| 36. |
The connecting link between the terms in a proposition is called __________. |
| A. | sentence |
| B. | copula |
| C. | verb |
| D. | name |
| Answer» B. copula | |
| 37. |
What is said about the subject term in a proposition is __________. |
| A. | copula |
| B. | subject |
| C. | predicate |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» C. predicate | |
| 38. |
_____________ of a proposition means whether the predicate is affirmed or denied of the subject. |
| A. | import |
| B. | intension |
| C. | quantity |
| D. | quality |
| Answer» D. quality | |
| 39. |
_________ propositions refer to the whole of the subject class. |
| A. | disjunctive |
| B. | categorical |
| C. | universal |
| D. | particular |
| Answer» C. universal | |
| 40. |
Identify the odd one. |
| A. | categorical |
| B. | contradictory |
| C. | hypothetical |
| D. | disjunctive |
| Answer» B. contradictory | |
| 41. |
Categorical propositions are classified into__________. |
| A. | three |
| B. | four |
| C. | two |
| D. | five |
| Answer» B. four | |
| 42. |
The universal affirmative proposition is symbolized as ___________. |
| A. | sip |
| B. | sep |
| C. | sop |
| D. | sap |
| Answer» D. sap | |
| 43. |
On the basis of quality, propositions are classified into _________. |
| A. | four |
| B. | three |
| C. | two |
| D. | one |
| Answer» C. two | |
| 44. |
“Dog is a domestic animal” is a/an __________affirmative proposition. |
| A. | particular |
| B. | universal |
| C. | individual |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» B. universal | |
| 45. |
When the predicate is affirmed of the whole of the subject class, the proposition is symbolized as _________. |
| A. | i |
| B. | o |
| C. | a |
| D. | e |
| Answer» C. a | |
| 46. |
Both the subject and the predicate are distributed in _____________proposition. |
| A. | a |
| B. | e |
| C. | i |
| D. | o |
| Answer» B. e | |
| 47. |
Neither the subject nor the predicate is distributed in ____________Proposition. |
| A. | a |
| B. | i |
| C. | e |
| D. | o |
| Answer» B. i | |
| 48. |
The predicate term alone is distributed in ___________proposition. |
| A. | e |
| B. | i |
| C. | a |
| D. | o |
| Answer» D. o | |
| 49. |
Only the subject term is distributed in_____________ proposition. |
| A. | o |
| B. | i |
| C. | e |
| D. | a |
| Answer» D. a | |
| 50. |
___________ is the basis of classification of immediate and mediate inference. |
| A. | length of premise |
| B. | meaning of premise |
| C. | number of premise |
| D. | all these |
| Answer» C. number of premise | |
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