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| 401. |
Berkeley is ….. |
| A. | Idealist |
| B. | Realist |
| C. | Pragmatist |
| D. | None |
| Answer» A. Idealist | |
| 402. |
Which one of the following vies truly explains the status of matter in the light of Berkeley’s thesis ‘esseestpercipii’? |
| A. | Whatever is known is only substance or concrete things |
| B. | Whatever is known is only ideas |
| C. | We experience in perception only objects with qualities. |
| D. | Apart from ideas, matter exists. |
| Answer» B. Whatever is known is only ideas | |
| 403. |
Berkeley suggests, as all beings are particular, so all ideas are |
| A. | Universal ideas |
| B. | Particular ideas |
| C. | Empirical ideas |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. Particular ideas | |
| 404. |
Berkeley ……..the assumption of general ideas in the mind and the belief in the existence of a material world outside it |
| A. | Accepts |
| B. | rejects |
| C. | transforms |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» B. rejects | |
| 405. |
Which among the following is NOT true for Berkeley? |
| A. | Matter is not perceived. |
| B. | The existence of matter is not based on inference |
| C. | The existence of matter serves no useful purpose. |
| D. | External objects are real and exist outside our mind. |
| Answer» D. External objects are real and exist outside our mind. | |
| 406. |
Who claims only minds and their ideas exist |
| A. | Berkeley |
| B. | Hume |
| C. | Bacon |
| D. | Berkeley |
| Answer» A. Berkeley | |
| 407. |
Which one of the following theses is the most fundamental to Berkeley’s world views? |
| A. | All qualities are ideas and so any object consisting of qualitie4s is an idea. |
| B. | Qualities of an object do not inhere in a material substratum |
| C. | Secondary qualities are the powers to produce sensations in us by their primary qualities. |
| D. | Primary qualities are produced by our minds. |
| Answer» C. Secondary qualities are the powers to produce sensations in us by their primary qualities. | |
| 408. |
Which one of the following is the view of Berkeley? |
| A. | The nature of body consists not in weight, hardness, colour and the like, but in extension alone |
| B. | Bodies are mere appearances of our outer sense, and not things-in-themselves. |
| C. | Body is only a system of floating ideas without any substance to support them. |
| D. | Body is composed of centres of force that are in a constant process of development. |
| Answer» B. Bodies are mere appearances of our outer sense, and not things-in-themselves. | |
| 409. |
Which one of the following statements is not implied by Berkeley’s view that ‘to be is to be perceived’? |
| A. | Ideas can exist only as long as they are being perceived. |
| B. | Qualities cannot exist independently of the perceiving mind. |
| C. | Objects cannot exist when they are not perceived by any mind. |
| D. | Objects cannot exist when they are not perceived by human beings. |
| Answer» A. Ideas can exist only as long as they are being perceived. | |
| 410. |
Which one among the following does NOT figure in Berkeley’s rejection of abstract ideas? |
| A. | There is no such thing in any mind as an abstract idea |
| B. | Knowledge of external worlds is possible without the abstract idea ‘Matter’. |
| C. | Acceptance of abstract ideas leads to atheism and materialism |
| D. | A particular idea can be made to represent all other particular ideas of the same sort. |
| Answer» D. A particular idea can be made to represent all other particular ideas of the same sort. | |
| 411. |
Who, among the following western philosophers attempted to refute ‘Matter’? |
| A. | Kant |
| B. | Berkeley |
| C. | Locke |
| D. | Hume |
| Answer» B. Berkeley | |
| 412. |
Berkeley believes that sensible things cannot exist except in ……. |
| A. | A mind |
| B. | absolute existence |
| C. | material substance |
| D. | material universe |
| Answer» A. A mind | |
| 413. |
Which among the following is correct |
| A. | According to Locke God, Mind and Matter are three kinds of substance |
| B. | According to Descartes, Mind and Matter are three kinds of substance |
| C. | According to Berkeley only Mind and their ideas exist |
| D. | All the above |
| Answer» D. All the above | |
| 414. |
Which among the following is NOT correct statement |
| A. | According to Spinoza there is only one substance, i.e., God |
| B. | According to Berkeley only Mind and their ideas exist |
| C. | According to Descartes there is only one substance, i.e, God |
| D. | According to the Absolute Idealism of Hegel there is only one reality |
| Answer» C. According to Descartes there is only one substance, i.e, God | |
| 415. |
Who claimed that an abstract idea does not exist. |
| A. | David Hume |
| B. | George Berkeley |
| C. | John Locke |
| D. | Plato |
| Answer» B. George Berkeley | |
| 416. |
The maxim of ‘esseestpercipii’ is put forward by: |
| A. | Berkeley |
| B. | Locke |
| C. | Spinoza |
| D. | Leibniz |
| Answer» A. Berkeley | |
| 417. |
Which of the following books is NOT written by David Hume? |
| A. | A Treatise of Human Nature |
| B. | An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding |
| C. | The Phenomenology of Spirit |
| D. | An Enquiry concerning the Human Understanding |
| Answer» C. The Phenomenology of Spirit | |
| 418. |
According to Hume there are two kinds of contents of the mind, namely ….. |
| A. | Sensations and impressions |
| B. | knowledge and ignorance |
| C. | subjective and objective ideas |
| D. | Impressions and their ideas |
| Answer» D. Impressions and their ideas | |
| 419. |
According to Hume, ……… is secondary and ….. is primary. |
| A. | Reflection, sensation |
| B. | Complex, simple idea |
| C. | Sensation, reflection |
| D. | simple, complex idea |
| Answer» A. Reflection, sensation | |
| 420. |
Hume’s theory, that all impressions as such are distinct and separate with no logical connection between them, is known as …… |
| A. | Humean atomism |
| B. | Humean skepticism |
| C. | Humean agnosticism |
| D. | Humean idealism |
| Answer» B. Humean skepticism | |
| 421. |
Hume does not believe in …… |
| A. | Causal relation exists |
| B. | External world is unreal |
| C. | Certainty of Knowledge |
| D. | Moral principles and God are man-made entities. |
| Answer» C. Certainty of Knowledge | |
| 422. |
‘Substance is a product of human imagination’ is said by ….. |
| A. | Descartes |
| B. | Spinoza |
| C. | Locke |
| D. | Hume |
| Answer» D. Hume | |
| 423. |
According to Hume, all knowledge is derived from: |
| A. | Reason |
| B. | Experience |
| C. | Ideas |
| D. | A priori |
| Answer» B. Experience | |
| 424. |
David Hume is accepted as a: |
| A. | Rationalist |
| B. | Idealist |
| C. | Materialist |
| D. | Skeptic |
| Answer» D. Skeptic | |
| 425. |
What is the self, according to Hume? |
| A. | A sequence of perceptions |
| B. | An immaterial, unchanging substance |
| C. | A physical body |
| D. | A social entity |
| Answer» A. A sequence of perceptions | |
| 426. |
Why can’t we have cause and effect knowledge, according to Hume? |
| A. | We can never observe a constant conjunction between events. |
| B. | We can never observe the cause and the effect at the same time. |
| C. | We can never observe a necessary connection between events. |
| D. | We can never observe the atoms that make up the cause and the effect. |
| Answer» C. We can never observe a necessary connection between events. | |
| 427. |
Which among the following is NOT correct statement |
| A. | If we believe in the causal principle, he says, it is only through habit or custom that we do so, there is no rational basis for it. |
| B. | The mind is a kind of theatre, where perceptions successively make their appearance, pass and re-pass, glide away and mingle in an infinite variety of postures and situations. |
| C. | Hume’s point is that the idea of necessary connection between cause and effect is something that experience can give us. |
| D. | We have no knowledge that an external world exists, that physical substances exist, that a God exists. |
| Answer» C. Hume’s point is that the idea of necessary connection between cause and effect is something that experience can give us. | |
| 428. |
Synthetic unity of apperception is advocated by: |
| A. | Hegel |
| B. | Kant |
| C. | Leibniz |
| D. | Spinoza |
| Answer» B. Kant | |
| 429. |
The expression ‘Copernican revolution in thought’ is attributed to: |
| A. | Kant |
| B. | Hegel |
| C. | Berkeley |
| D. | Spinoza |
| Answer» A. Kant | |
| 430. |
Kant’s Copernican revolution in philosophy is ….. |
| A. | The mind must approach the objects to be known at all |
| B. | The objects must approach the mind to be known at all |
| C. | Mind obtained reason because of sun |
| D. | None of the above |
| Answer» B. The objects must approach the mind to be known at all | |
| 431. |
Which one of the following concepts is associated with Immanuel Kant? |
| A. | Occasionalism |
| B. | tabula rasa |
| C. | esseestpercipii |
| D. | synthetic apriori |
| Answer» D. synthetic apriori | |
| 432. |
In Transcendental Aesthetic, Kant discusses the theory of …. |
| A. | Knowledge |
| B. | Space and time |
| C. | Existence of God |
| D. | Morality |
| Answer» B. Space and time | |
| 433. |
According to Kant, knowledge begins with sense proceeds thence to …….. and ends in ….. |
| A. | Understanding, reason |
| B. | Reason, Understanding |
| C. | Noumena, phenomena |
| D. | none of the above |
| Answer» A. Understanding, reason | |
| 434. |
Kant has called his epistemological enquiry ……. |
| A. | Critical |
| B. | Agnostic |
| C. | Transcendental |
| D. | Rational |
| Answer» C. Transcendental | |
| 435. |
Kant’s philosophy is known as |
| A. | Criticism |
| B. | Rationalism |
| C. | Idealism |
| D. | Realism |
| Answer» A. Criticism | |
| 436. |
A proposition, in which the predicate does not belong to the subject, is known as ….. |
| A. | Synthetic |
| B. | Analytic |
| C. | Simple |
| D. | Complex |
| Answer» A. Synthetic | |
| 437. |
The critique of Pure Reason is really a treatise on …. With special reference to science |
| A. | Metaphysics |
| B. | Epistemology |
| C. | Axiology |
| D. | Aesthetics |
| Answer» B. Epistemology | |
| 438. |
According to Kant, the laws of nature |
| A. | Do not exist |
| B. | Exist in our minds, and we apply them to construct nature as we experience it. |
| C. | Are intuited by the mind just like the rest of nature. |
| D. | Are abstracted from the judgments we make about nature |
| Answer» B. Exist in our minds, and we apply them to construct nature as we experience it. | |
| 439. |
Metaphysics is only possible if we can gain knowledge from statement which are |
| A. | Synthetic a posteriori |
| B. | synthetic a priori |
| C. | analytical a priori |
| D. | None of the above: metaphysics is never possible |
| Answer» B. synthetic a priori | |
| 440. |
How does Kant say that our mind experiences intuitions? |
| A. | Intuitions are sudden flashes of insight about the world |
| B. | Intuitions are formed in the mind from concepts of understanding |
| C. | Intuitions are experienced in space and time |
| D. | Intuitions give us the framework which lets us interpret sense data |
| Answer» C. Intuitions are experienced in space and time | |
| 441. |
According to Kant we know ourselves |
| A. | Only by the phenomenal self we experience in this world |
| B. | Through the innate obviousness of our own experience |
| C. | As both phenomenal and noumenalbeings |
| D. | Not at all, since all our selves are made up of false and illusory judgements |
| Answer» A. Only by the phenomenal self we experience in this world | |
| 442. |
According to Kant the ideas of reason are not …. But ….. principles of knowledge |
| A. | Regulative, constitutive |
| B. | Affirmative, negative |
| C. | Negative, affirmative |
| D. | Constitutive, regulative |
| Answer» D. Constitutive, regulative | |
| 443. |
Why doesn't Kant think that we can have knowledge of the things-in-themselves (das ding- an-sich)? |
| A. | Because they have not yet been experienced. |
| B. | Because they are not physical in nature. |
| C. | Because they are not mental in nature. |
| D. | Because the organizing principles of the mind do not apply to them. |
| Answer» A. Because they have not yet been experienced. | |
| 444. |
The a priori conditions of all knowledge is advocated by: |
| A. | Kant |
| B. | Hume |
| C. | Locke |
| D. | Berkeley |
| Answer» A. Kant | |
| 445. |
Who authored the book Critique of Pure Reason |
| A. | Immanuel Kant |
| B. | Hegel |
| C. | Rene Descartes |
| D. | Russell |
| Answer» A. Immanuel Kant | |
| 446. |
The concepts come to be applied to the sensible through the ………-schema. |
| A. | Time |
| B. | Space |
| C. | both time and space |
| D. | Neither time nor space |
| Answer» A. Time | |
| 447. |
-------------- means that there are a priori categories of the understanding which determine the objectivity of empirical statements and that by their means alone such statements can ever be obtained. |
| A. | Transcendental Analytic |
| B. | Transcendental Aesthetic |
| C. | Schema |
| D. | Transcendental Deduction |
| Answer» D. Transcendental Deduction | |
| 448. |
The knowledge which is constructed by the understanding, by means of its categories, is the knowledge of …………… |
| A. | Phenomenon |
| B. | Noumenon |
| C. | things-in- themselves |
| D. | Phenomenon and Noumenon |
| Answer» A. Phenomenon | |
| 449. |
Which of the following is true for Kant |
| A. | Knowledge of the phenomena alone is possible |
| B. | Noumena remain unknown and unknowable. |
| C. | Noumena means a thing so far as it is not an object of our sensible intuition |
| D. | All of the above |
| Answer» D. All of the above | |
| 450. |
According to Kant, moral duty is |
| A. | The commandment of God |
| B. | Given by one’s intuition |
| C. | The imperative of pure reason |
| D. | Determined by majority |
| Answer» C. The imperative of pure reason | |
| 451. |
According to Kant, we ought to treat humanity |
| A. | always only as an end |
| B. | sometimes as an end |
| C. | never simply as a means |
| D. | always as a means |
| Answer» A. always only as an end | |
| 452. |
According to Kant, moral law is |
| A. | a priori, and based on reason |
| B. | a priori, and not based on reason |
| C. | a posteriori, and not based on reason |
| D. | a posteriori, and based on reason |
| Answer» A. a priori, and based on reason | |
| 453. |
A furtherprocess of synthesis is effected a priori by the three ideas of reason, namely, |
| A. | Sense, object, knowledge |
| B. | Intellect, intuition, cognition |
| C. | World, soul, God |
| D. | Mind, body, absolute |
| Answer» C. World, soul, God | |
| 454. |
The philosopher who put forward the dialectical method is: |
| A. | Descartes |
| B. | Kant |
| C. | Hegel |
| D. | Spinoza |
| Answer» C. Hegel | |
| 455. |
According to Hegel, there are three stages in the logical development of spirit: subjective mind, objective mind and ….. |
| A. | Absolute God |
| B. | Absolute mind |
| C. | Absolute Spirit |
| D. | Absolute idea |
| Answer» C. Absolute Spirit | |
| 456. |
Which method is the proper method of philosophy, according to Hegel, is determined by the subject matter of philosophy itself |
| A. | The synthetical |
| B. | the analytical |
| C. | the dialectical |
| D. | the geometrical |
| Answer» C. the dialectical | |
| 457. |
The Absolute for Hegel is |
| A. | Substance |
| B. | Soul |
| C. | God |
| D. | Idea |
| Answer» D. Idea | |
| 458. |
The real is the rational, and the rational is the real’ is the doctrine of |
| A. | Fichte |
| B. | Schelling |
| C. | Kant |
| D. | Hegel |
| Answer» D. Hegel | |
| 459. |
Having shown that metaphysics is unproved and speculative at best, Kant goes on to argue that |
| A. | Rather than studying speculative metaphysics to learn about sense perceptions, we ought to study sense perceptions in order to learn about metaphysics. |
| B. | We ought to study metaphysics as a science because it asks good questions. |
| C. | We ought to waste time with that of which we know nothing |
| D. | Metaphysics can only be known innately |
| Answer» B. We ought to study metaphysics as a science because it asks good questions. | |
| 460. |
What do we directly observe, according to David Hume? |
| A. | Physical objects |
| B. | Sense impressions |
| C. | Ourselves |
| D. | Our brains |
| Answer» B. Sense impressions | |
| 461. |
Absolute Idealism is advocated by |
| A. | John Locke |
| B. | George Berkley |
| C. | Immanuel Kant |
| D. | Hegel |
| Answer» D. Hegel | |
| 462. |
According to Absolute Idealism, what is the relationship between being real and being knowable? |
| A. | No reality is knowable |
| B. | All reality is knowable |
| C. | Some reality is knowable and some isn’t |
| D. | Only God is ultimately unknowable. |
| Answer» B. All reality is knowable | |
| 463. |
There is the final movement in which the spirit reduces Nature to the inwardness, which the spirit itself is. Only at this stage the spirit rises to self-consciousness in man. According to Hegel this stage is ……… |
| A. | Thesis |
| B. | anti-thesis |
| C. | Synthesis |
| D. | Contradiction |
| Answer» C. Synthesis | |
| 464. |
For Hegel, Idea means |
| A. | Concrete particular |
| B. | Concrete universal |
| C. | Abstract particular |
| D. | Abstract universal |
| Answer» B. Concrete universal | |
| 465. |
According to the Absolute Idealism of Hegel |
| A. | There is only one reality |
| B. | Reality is relative |
| C. | There are many realities |
| D. | All of these |
| Answer» A. There is only one reality | |
| 466. |
What is the highest reality (the Absolute), for Hegel? |
| A. | The entire material world |
| B. | A God who exists beyond the world |
| C. | Infinite thought thinking itself |
| D. | A vast group of independent particulars |
| Answer» C. Infinite thought thinking itself | |
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