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Question 1

According to Skepticism knowledge is ———-

A. certain
B. possible
C. uncertain
D. none of these

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Question 2

________ is considered as the father of modern philosophy

A. descartes
B. kant
C. hegel
D. plato

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Question 3

Ontology deals with

A. matter
B. mind
C. being
D. ideas

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Question 4

The method of Kant was

A. dialectic
B. critical
C. synthetic
D. speculative

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Question 5

The mind body relationship theory of Descartes is known as———

A. psycho physical parallelism
B. interactionism
C. pre-established harmony
D. none of these

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Question 6

For Idealism ——— is primary

A. mind
B. inference
C. perception
D. soul

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Question 7

The author of Meditations is

A. leibniz
B. plato
C. descartes
D. spinoza

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Question 8

According to Kant ______ judgments are always apriori

A. synthetic
B. ethical
C. analytical
D. none of these

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Question 9

_____ admits innumerable monads or spiritual atoms

A. descartes
B. leibniz
C. spinoza
D. hegel

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Question 10

Descartes suggests___ as absolute substance

A. mind
B. matter
C. god
D. none of these

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Question 11

The rationalist philosopher ___ wants to give philosophy a stable character like mathematics

A. kant
B. descartes
C. plato
D. aristotle

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Question 12

‘An Essay concerning human Understanding’ is the work of________

A. spinoza
B. descartes
C. hume
D. none of these

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Question 13

___ is the method adopted by Kant

A. inductive
B. deductive
C. empirical
D. transcendental

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Question 14

Cogito ergo sum is a key concept in the philosophy of________

A. leibniz
B. spinoza
C. descartes
D. none of these

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Question 15

According to ______ God is regarded as the only cause and bearer of all qualities

A. descartes
B. leibniz
C. spinoza
D. hegel

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Question 16

____________ is the author of Tractatus Logico Philosophicus.

A. wv quine
B. wittgenstein
C. a j ayer
D. tarski

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Question 17

According to _________ proposition must be verified to be meaningful.

A. logical positivist
B. modernist
C. atomist
D. none of these

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Question 18

In Philosophical Investigations Wittgenstein proposed a ___________ theory of language.

A. use theory
B. picture theory
C. both a and b
D. none of these

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Question 19

_________ is the author of The Blue and Brown Books.

A. wv quine
B. wittgenstein
C. a j ayer
D. tarsk

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Question 20

The task of ____________ is to distinguish between being and entities.

A. ontology
B. phenomenology
C. hermeneutics
D. existentialism

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Question 21

____________ is the founder of phenomenology.

A. sartre
B. husserl
C. gadamer
D. derrida

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Question 22

According to _______________synthetic a priori does not exist.

A. logical positivism
B. hermeneutics
C. existentialism
D. none of these

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Question 23

In Tractatus, ________ states that a proposition describes reality.

A. husserl
B. wittgenstein
C. carnap
D. russel

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Question 24

According to _________the structure of language is determined by the structure of reality.

A. husserl
B. wittgenstein
C. carnap
D. russel

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Question 25

According to to Kant there are ———— categories

A. two.
B. three
C. four
D. five

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Question 26

Spinoza’s Monism is known as ———

A. abstract monism.
B. concrete monism
C. phenomenal monism
D. all of these

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Question 27

Monadology is the work of ———-

A. leibniz.
B. descartes
C. hume
D. comte

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Question 28

_________ is the author of the essay ‘Philosophy as rigorous science’.

A. husserl
B. heidegger
C. gadamer
D. derrida

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Question 29

In Tractatus Wittgenstein proposed a ___________ theory of language.

A. use theory
B. picture theory
C. both a and b
D. none of these

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Question 30

_________ is the author of The Logical Syntax of Language,

A. russell
B. ayer
C. carnap
D. husserl

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Question 31

For Descartes the proposition ‘I think’ is self-verifying because

A. it is a necessary truth.
B. it is a logical truth.
C. doubting it confirms it.
D. thinking is my essence

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Question 32

According to Kant _________ the proper objects of faith

A. phenomena
B. noumena
C. both phenomena and noumena
D. neither phenomena nor noumena

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Question 33

Generally the rise of modern Philosophy had been marked by________

A. critical thinking
B. reflective spirit
C. revolt against authority
D. all these

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Question 34

Mind body theory of Descartes is known as___

A. psycho physical parallelism
B. interactionism
C. pre-established harmony
D. all of these

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Question 35

According to ________ , only mind and their ideas exist

A. hume
B. leibniz
C. spinoza
D. berkeley

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Question 36

According to Kant ________judgments are always aposteriori

A. analytical
B. synthetic
C. ethical
D. none of these

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Question 37

According to ___, monads are windowless

A. descartes
B. leibniz
C. spinoza
D. hegel

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Question 38

In Transcendental Aesthetic, Kant discusses the theory of ___

A. space and time
B. morality
C. god
D. none of these

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Question 39

___ believes that there are no innate ideas in the mind

A. plato
B. spinoza
C. kant
D. locke

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Question 40

‘To be is to be perceived’ is a theory of______

A. descartes
B. leibniz
C. spinoza
D. berkeley

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Question 41

Leibniz belongs to ______school

A. rationalism
B. empiricism
C. idealism
D. none of these

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Question 42

Berkeley is ______

A. pragmatist
B. rationalist
C. empiricist
D. none of these

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Question 43

According to Berkeley matter is an________

A. immanent idea
B. abstract idea
C. pure idea
D. none of these

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Question 44

Pineal gland is the _________ of the soul according to Descartes

A. subject
B. controller
C. seat
D. none of these

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Question 45

According to Berkeley

A. ideas but not the minds exist
B. minds but not the ideas exist
C. both ideas and the minds exist
D. neither ideas nor the minds exist

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Question 46

The primary aim of Descartes is

A. to explain the relation between body and mind.
B. to prove the existence of god.
C. to refute the reality of the external world.
D. to reach clear and certain knowledge

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Question 47

_____ claims a material world which exists apart from perceiving mind, is unnecessary and false

A. hume
B. berkeley
C. descartes
D. none of these

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Question 48

According to Leibniz the monads are _____ and everything is potential or implicit in it

A. modifications
B. windowless
C. strong
D. none of these

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Question 49

The Critique of Pure Reason is really a treatise on ___ with special reference to science

A. epistemology
B. metaphysics
C. axiology
D. none of these

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Question 50

Locke and Berkeley belong to ______ school

A. empiricism
B. rationalism
C. idealism
D. none of thes

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Question 51

According to Spinoza body and mind

A. interact with each other
B. are causally related
C. are parallel to each other
D. none of these

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Question 52

The first Philosophy refers to———

A. aesthetics
B. metaphysics
C. epistemology
D. ethics

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Question 53

______ defines monads as Centres of force or energy

A. kant
B. hegel
C. leibniz
D. hume

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Question 54

______ is the view that God is the immanent principle of universe

A. pluralism
B. dualism
C. pantheism
D. atheism

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