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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) .
| 1. |
------------------- is a vital instrument for the growth and development of knowledge. |
| A. | superstition |
| B. | false belief |
| C. | barren hypothesis |
| D. | methodology |
| Answer» D. methodology | |
| 2. |
Our beliefs may be substantiated by some objective standards and they should not be guided solely by subjective considerations. This shows the necessity of -------------------- |
| A. | subjectivism |
| B. | skepticism |
| C. | methods |
| D. | dogmatism |
| Answer» C. methods | |
| 3. |
The study of methods is called |
| A. | mysticism |
| B. | monadology |
| C. | methodology |
| D. | mythology |
| Answer» C. methodology | |
| 4. |
Procedures and techniques by which the establishment of the validity of previous knowledge and the attainment of new knowledge is possible, is called |
| A. | empiricism |
| B. | rationalism |
| C. | methodology |
| D. | positivism |
| Answer» C. methodology | |
| 5. |
Procedures and techniques which have been devised to aid us in extending our knowledge is called |
| A. | dogmatism |
| B. | skepticism |
| C. | agnosticism |
| D. | methodology |
| Answer» D. methodology | |
| 6. |
----------------is the author of the book An Essay on Philosophical Method |
| A. | bertrand russell |
| B. | ludwig wittgenstein |
| C. | collingwood |
| D. | montague |
| Answer» C. collingwood | |
| 7. |
The source of the methodology of arts was |
| A. | socrates |
| B. | aristotle |
| C. | a.j.ayer |
| D. | descartes |
| Answer» A. socrates | |
| 8. |
The Problem of Knowledge was written by |
| A. | aristotle |
| B. | plato |
| C. | a.j.ayer |
| D. | collingwood |
| Answer» C. a.j.ayer | |
| 9. |
“It is by it’s methods rather than it’s subject matter that philosophy is to be distinguished from other arts or sciences”. This is a statement by |
| A. | plato |
| B. | aristotle |
| C. | collingwood |
| D. | a.j.ayer |
| Answer» D. a.j.ayer | |
| 10. |
With the help of method we come to a ---------------. |
| A. | theory |
| B. | belief |
| C. | guess |
| D. | conjencture |
| Answer» A. theory | |
| 11. |
A theory is a conclusion, whereas a method is a------------------. |
| A. | syllogism |
| B. | procedure |
| C. | style |
| D. | manner |
| Answer» B. procedure | |
| 12. |
Style means |
| A. | a manner of expression characteristic of a particular philosopher or individual. |
| B. | a philosophical method |
| C. | a demonstrative method |
| D. | a procedure used for studying the phenomena of the objective world. |
| Answer» A. a manner of expression characteristic of a particular philosopher or individual. | |
| 13. |
Philosophical method is |
| A. | demonstrative |
| B. | skeptical |
| C. | contemplative |
| D. | distructive |
| Answer» A. demonstrative | |
| 14. |
For idealists, method is |
| A. | objectively established |
| B. | established for the sake of convenience |
| C. | a set of principles which is arbitrarily established by human reason for convenience in knowing. |
| D. | a procedure used for studying phenomena of the objective world. |
| Answer» C. a set of principles which is arbitrarily established by human reason for convenience in knowing. | |
| 15. |
The Marxists present method as |
| A. | arbitrarily established, everyone having his own method. |
| B. | a procedure used for studying the phenomena of the objective world. |
| C. | a purely subjective category |
| D. | a person’s style of doing something |
| Answer» B. a procedure used for studying the phenomena of the objective world. | |
| 16. |
Philosophical methods are |
| A. | methods of empirical sciences |
| B. | methods of empirical psychology |
| C. | methods of rational inquiry |
| D. | methods of objective world |
| Answer» C. methods of rational inquiry | |
| 17. |
------------------take “philosophical method as the method of determining the meaning of ideas and of clarifying them”. |
| A. | rationalists |
| B. | empiricists |
| C. | idealists |
| D. | pragmatists |
| Answer» D. pragmatists | |
| 18. |
According to pragmatists, the two ends of philosophical method are, |
| A. | first, verification of hypothesis and second, proof of hypothesis |
| B. | first, determination of meaning and second, verification of ideas |
| C. | first, formulation of hypothesis and second, deduction and verification of hypothesis |
| D. | none of the above |
| Answer» B. first, determination of meaning and second, verification of ideas | |
| 19. |
Philosophical method ‘as a method of settling philosophical disputes‘ is the view of |
| A. | descartes |
| B. | william james |
| C. | aristotle |
| D. | socrates |
| Answer» B. william james | |
| 20. |
Science is rational, philosophy is |
| A. | more rational, speculative also |
| B. | irrational and skeptical |
| C. | irrational and dogmatic |
| D. | skeptical and dogmatic |
| Answer» A. more rational, speculative also | |
| 21. |
Socrates and Plato took philosophical method as a method of |
| A. | settling philosophical disputes |
| B. | determination of meaning |
| C. | clarification of language |
| D. | knowing |
| Answer» D. knowing | |
| 22. |
According to Aristotle, the aim of philosophical method is |
| A. | to investigate meaning aspect of language |
| B. | to inquire into the of structure of language |
| C. | the attainment of truth |
| D. | to inquire into the a-priori aspect of knowledge |
| Answer» C. the attainment of truth | |
| 23. |
With the help of method we come to a |
| A. | pattern |
| B. | theory |
| C. | style |
| D. | syllogism |
| Answer» B. theory | |
| 24. |
A theory is a -----------------, whereas a method is a procedure or way. |
| A. | conclusion |
| B. | premise |
| C. | syllogism |
| D. | style |
| Answer» A. conclusion | |
| 25. |
Manner of thinking or procedure of thinking over some problem is called |
| A. | syllogism |
| B. | theory |
| C. | style |
| D. | art |
| Answer» C. style | |
| 26. |
Chintana prakriya means |
| A. | a manner of thinking or procedure of thinking over some problem |
| B. | a manner of expression characteristic of a particular philosopher or individual |
| C. | an account of a group of facts or phenomena |
| D. | an account of the procedures to be followed in a scientific investigation |
| Answer» A. a manner of thinking or procedure of thinking over some problem | |
| 27. |
Style means |
| A. | an account of the procedures to be followed in a scientific investigation. |
| B. | an account of a group of facts or phenomena |
| C. | a manner of thinking or procedure of thinking over some problem |
| D. | a manner of expression characteristic of a particular philosopher or individual |
| Answer» D. a manner of expression characteristic of a particular philosopher or individual | |
| 28. |
An argument expressed or claimed to be expressible in the form of two propositions called the premises , containing a common or middle term , with a third proposition called the conclusion resulting necessarily from the other two, is called |
| A. | method |
| B. | style |
| C. | syllogism |
| D. | theory |
| Answer» C. syllogism | |
| 29. |
According to Wittgenstein, syllogism is |
| A. | a philosophical method |
| B. | a demonstrative method |
| C. | style |
| D. | theory |
| Answer» B. a demonstrative method | |
| 30. |
Art is concerned with practice, while method is a process of |
| A. | skill |
| B. | action |
| C. | application |
| D. | thinking |
| Answer» D. thinking | |
| 31. |
A person’s style of doing is called |
| A. | method |
| B. | syllogism |
| C. | pattern |
| D. | manner |
| Answer» D. manner | |
| 32. |
-----------------is a mode of action |
| A. | philosophical method |
| B. | procedure |
| C. | syllogism |
| D. | theory |
| Answer» B. procedure | |
| 33. |
Logico-mathematical method is called |
| A. | demonstrative method |
| B. | pure philosophical method |
| C. | scientific method |
| D. | hypothetical method |
| Answer» B. pure philosophical method | |
| 34. |
---------------------is an example of pure philosophical method |
| A. | mystical method |
| B. | analogical method |
| C. | etymological method |
| D. | phenomenological |
| Answer» D. phenomenological | |
| 35. |
“A philosophical system claims uniformity of method, but a truly philosophical spirit will rather aim at flexibility”. This statement is by |
| A. | descartes |
| B. | socrates |
| C. | collingwood |
| D. | wittgenstein |
| Answer» C. collingwood | |
| 36. |
--------------considered as the starting points of mathematical method. |
| A. | propositions |
| B. | axioms |
| C. | theorems |
| D. | laws |
| Answer» B. axioms | |
| 37. |
Spinoza’s method is known as |
| A. | axiomatic |
| B. | mathematical |
| C. | theoretical |
| D. | geometrical |
| Answer» D. geometrical | |
| 38. |
What is the name of book in which Descartes stated his four rules of method? |
| A. | discourse on the method |
| B. | the method |
| C. | ethics |
| D. | on ideas |
| Answer» A. discourse on the method | |
| 39. |
Descartes considered -----------and -----------as the two criteria of true knowledge. |
| A. | purity and clearness |
| B. | clearness and distinctiveness |
| C. | clearness and truthfulness |
| D. | distinctiveness and purity |
| Answer» B. clearness and distinctiveness | |
| 40. |
Descartes himself refuted ------------- as a philosophical method. |
| A. | induction |
| B. | deduction |
| C. | syllogism |
| D. | intuition |
| Answer» C. syllogism | |
| 41. |
Immanuel Kant’s method is known as |
| A. | transcendental |
| B. | mathematical |
| C. | geometrical |
| D. | intuitive |
| Answer» A. transcendental | |
| 42. |
The term ‘a priori’ means |
| A. | empirical |
| B. | a posteriori |
| C. | after experience |
| D. | before experience |
| Answer» D. before experience | |
| 43. |
“---------------------------------” constitutes a definite and self-evident starting point for the Cartesian philosophy. |
| A. | a priori |
| B. | self-evident principles |
| C. | cogito ergo sum |
| D. | ergo cogito |
| Answer» C. cogito ergo sum | |
| 44. |
Descartes says that when deduction is ’complex and involved’ it may be termed ------- |
| A. | enumeration |
| B. | complex deduction |
| C. | association |
| D. | complex intuition |
| Answer» A. enumeration | |
| 45. |
According to Kant dogmatism has two forms viz. rationalism and --------------. |
| A. | intuitionalism |
| B. | empiricism |
| C. | scepticism |
| D. | solipsism |
| Answer» B. empiricism | |
| 46. |
To attain certainty and clarity in philosophy many philosophers recommended |
| A. | mathematical method |
| B. | synthetic method |
| C. | enumeration |
| D. | intuitive method |
| Answer» A. mathematical method | |
| 47. |
The method which employs a long series of definitions, postulates, axioms, theorems and problems. |
| A. | mathematical method |
| B. | synthetic method |
| C. | enumeration |
| D. | intuitive method |
| Answer» B. synthetic method | |
| 48. |
In the mathematical method we deduce other principles and propositions from -------- |
| A. | enumeration |
| B. | complex deduction |
| C. | association |
| D. | axioms |
| Answer» D. axioms | |
| 49. |
Mathematics is a body of certain and-------------------------------- truths. |
| A. | self-evident |
| B. | mathematical |
| C. | theoretical |
| D. | geometrical |
| Answer» A. self-evident | |
| 50. |
Who gave primacy to intuition? |
| A. | hume |
| B. | locke |
| C. | russell |
| D. | descartes |
| Answer» D. descartes | |
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