PHILOSOPHY- PAGE 4
1. Non-violence as a law of love is
(A) Loving those that are affectionate
(B) Loving those whom one likes
(C) Loving those who even hate one
(D) None of the above
Ans: C
2. Which of the theories given below holds the position that ‘object of knowledge owes its existence as well as its properties to the creative activity of the knowing mind’?
(A) Absolute Idealism
(B) Phenomenalism
(C) Metaphysical Idealism
(D) Epistemological Idealism
Ans: D
3. Husserlian expression ‘Epoche’ means
(A) Suspension of Reality
(B) Suspension of World
(C) Suspension of Judgement
(D) Suspension of Experience
Ans: C
4. The theory which restricts our knowledge to phenomenal appearances of an inaccessible reality is
(A) Phenomenology
(B) Subjective Idealism
(C) Phenomenalism
(D) Absolute Idealism
Ans: C
5. Match List – I with List – II and select the correct answer from the codes given below:
List – I List – II
a. Subjective Idealism i. Kant
b. Commonsense Realism ii. Thomas Reid
c. Absolute Idealism iii. Hegel
d. Critical Idealism iv. Berkeley
Codes:
a b c d
(A) iv iii ii i
(B) i ii iii iv
(C) iv ii iii i
(D) iii ii iv i
Ans: C
6. If ‘O’ is false, find out the true option as given below:
(A) I and E are true and A is false.
(B) I and A are true and E is false.
(C) A and I are false and E is true.
(D) O is true but E and I are false.
Ans: B
7. Find out the false statement as given below: Statements:
(A) Converse of ‘A’ is ‘I’.
(B) If ‘A’ is false, then ‘O’ is true.
(C) Obverse of ‘O’ is ‘I’.
(D) Obverse of ‘E’ is ‘I’.
Ans: D
8. Which of the Philosophers noted below stated?
“Utility means the property of any object, whereby it tends to produce benefit, advantage, pleasure, good or happiness or to prevent the happening of mischief, pain, evil, unhappiness to the party whose interest is considered.”?
(A) James Mill
(B) J.S. Mill
(C) Hume
(D) Jeremy Bentham
Ans: D
9. Which of the philosophers noted below propounded ethical gradation of the springs of action?
(A) Cadworth
(B) Sidgewick
(C) Butler
(D) Martineau
Ans: D
10. Consider the following statements with regard to Bentham and choose the correct code: Statements:
1. Bentham dismissed ethics of asceticism as an inverted hedonism.
2. Bentham is an ethical hedonist by virtue of his employment of the pleasure principle as the standard for conduct.
3. Intuitionist ethics was criticized by Bentham for it provides no more than a subjective feeling.
Codes:
(A) Only 1 and 3 are true.
(B) Only 1 and 2 are true
(C) 1, 2 and 3 are true.
(D) Only 2 is true.
Ans: C
11. Hypothesis is a
(A) Free flight of mind
(B) Discovery
(C) Supposition
(D) A provisional supposition to explain a problematic event.
Ans: D
12. According to Shankar Brahman is away from which of the following three distinctions?
(A) Homogenous distinction, Heterogenous distinction, internal distinction
(B) Waking experience, Dreaming experience, Dreamless experience
(C) Experimental contradiction, Logical contradiction, illogical contradiction
(D) None of above
Ans: A
13. Select the correct descending order of Tirthankaras in the context of their period:
(A) R.abhanātha, Anantanatha, Shantinātha, Nemināth, Mahāveera
(B) Anantanatha, Shantinātha, R.abhanātha, Mahāveera, Nemināth
(C) Padmaprabha, Ajitanatha, Mallinātha, R. abhanātha, Shantinātha
(D) R. abhanātha, Anantanatha, Sambhavanātha, Ajitanatha, Mahavira
Ans: A
14. Reality has no assets beyond appearances and if appearances alone to its credit it will be bankrupt.’ is a statement of
(A) Green
(B) Hegel
(C) Bradley
(D) Plato
Ans: C
15. ‘Appearances are the appearances of reality’ is a statement of
(A) Kant
(B) Bradley
(C) Hegel
(D) Green
Ans: B
16. ‘Die to live’ is a statement of
(A) Kant
(B) Hegel
(C) Berkeley
(D) Mill
Ans: B
17. Who has said – ‘My Station and its Duties’?
(A) Plato
(B) Berkeley
(C) Kant
(D) Bradley
Ans: D
18. What does Shankara’s Satkaryavada known as?
(A) Vijnan-Vivartvada
(B) Brahma-Vivartvada
(C) Prakriti-Parinamvada
(D) Brahma-Parinamvada
Ans: B
19. ‘Free-will’ in ethics means
(A) The individual is free to do anything
(B) The individual is not free to do anything
(C) The individual is free to act keeping in view of some norms
(D) None of the above
Ans: C
20. Who highlighted the problem of personal identity first in modern western philosophy?
(A) Strawson
(B) Locke
(C) Kripke
(D) Descartes
Ans: B
21. Which one of the following systems of Indian Philosophy designated Mok a as Nirvana?
(A) Jainism
(B) Buddhism
(C) Yoga
(D) Samkhya
Ans: B
22. Who says that the function of Philosophy is wholly critical?
(A) Aristotle
(B) Ayer
(C) Plato
(D) Hegel
Ans: A
23. On the ground of ‘relation’ propositions are divided into
(A) Categorical and conditional
(B) Affirmative and negative
(C) Universal and particular
(D) Necessary and problematic
Ans: A
24. ‘Universal Affirmative’ and ‘Particular Negative’ propositions are symbolized as
(A) A and E
(B) A and I
(C) E and O
(D) A and O
Ans: D
25. Which one of the following is known as ‘_______ triśara a’ according to Buddhism?
(A) Sravana, Manana, Nididhyasana
(B) Darshana, Jnāna, Caritra
(C) Maitri, Karuna, Mudita
(D) Buddha, Dhamma, Sa gha
Ans: D
26. Which one of the following is a fundamental law of thought?
(A) Law of Reasoning
(B) Law of Excluded Middle
(C) Law of Compatibility
(D) Law of Double Negation
Ans: B
27. In the proposition ‘Very few men are honest’
(A) Only subject term is distributed.
(B) Only predicate term is distributed.
(C) Both the subject term and predicate term is distributed.
(D) Neither of the terms is distributed.
Ans: D
28. In the traditional square of opposition if ‘I’ proposition is false, which one of the following can be determined?
(A) A, E and O are undetermined.
(B) A, E and O are false.
(C) A is true, E is true and O is false.
(D) A is false, E is true and O is true.
Ans: D
29. Which one of the following is the equivalent of ~ p ⊃ q?
(A) p⊃ ~ q
(B) q ν p
(C) q⊃ ~ p
(D) ~ q ⊃ ~ p
Ans: B
30. ‘p.q’, ‘p ν q’, ‘p ⊃ q’ and ‘ p ≡ q’ are all true only when
(A) p is true and q is false.
(B) p is false and q is true.
(C) p and q are both false.
(D) p and q are both true.
Ans: D
31. When two propositions about the same subject-matter cannot both be true together; they are
(A) Contradictories
(B) Contraries
(C) Either contraries or contradictories
(D) Both contraries and contradictories
Ans: C
32. Which one of the following is a propositional function?
(A) All cows are white or all cows are black.
(B) If Socrates is a man, then he is mortal.
(C) X is pretty.
(D) For any x, if x is a man, then x is rational.
Ans: C
33. When one mistakes one kind of facts with some other kind, one commits a
(A) Hypothetical mistake
(B) Legal mistake
(C) Moral mistake
(D) Categorical mistake
Answer: (Wrong question)
34. According to ‘representationalism’, a belief accounts for knowledge
(A) Only if it is a false belief.
(B) Only if it is a true belief.
(C) Only if it is indifferent to truth and falsity.
(D) Only if it does not picture reality.
Ans: B
35. G.E. Moore is an ethical
(A) Cognitivist
(B) Non-cognitivist
(C) Descriptivist
(D) Non-descriptivist
Ans: C
36. Match List – I with List – II and select the correct answer from the code given below:
List – I List – II
a. Antinomy of quality i. The world is either finite or infinite.
b. Antinomy of quantity ii. Matter is either indivisible or infinitely divisible.
c. Antinomy of modality iii. The world must have a cause or no cause.
d. Antinomy of relation iv. All changes and conditions presuppose something that does not change and is unconditioned.
Codes:
a b c d
(A) iii iv i ii
(B) iv iii ii i
(C) i ii iii iv
(D) ii i iv iii
Ans: D
37. According to the feminist thinker Kristeva, religion as a language maintains the tension between an
(A) Physical needs and personal cognition of reality.
(B) Psychological needs and objective cognition of reality.
(C) Psychological needs and personal cognition of reality.
(D) Divine needs and theological cognition of reality.
Ans: C
38. Kant’s Conception of the ‘Kingdom of ends’ approximates to the Gita’s Conception of ______.
(A) Asceticism
(B) Solidarity of humanity
(C) Humanism
(D) Atheism
Ans: B
39. Ontological Dualism is a theory which held _______
(A) Mind and body are different entities acting together.
(B) Mind and matter are independent of each other.
(C) There are two ultimate realities which act together in coherent manner.
(D) There are two ultimate realities independent of each other.
Ans: D
40. According to Nyāya system vyatirekavyāpti between hetu and sādhya obtains when
(A) All cases of hetu are cases of absence of sādhya.
(B) Some cases of hetu are cases of sādhya.
(C) Some cases of sādhya are cases of hetu.
(D) All cases of absence of sādhya are cases of absence of hetu.
Ans: D
41. W.V.O. Quine is an ontological relativist because he believes in
(A) Inscrutability of reference
(B) Picture theory of meaning
(C) Forms of life
(D) Family resemblances
Ans: A
42. True knowledge according to J. Krishnamurti is
(A) Revealed by mystics
(B) Conditioned by experience
(C) Obtained by religious reflection
(D) Unconditional awareness
Ans: D
43. The problem of intentionality is thatof understanding the relation between
(A) A mental state and corresponding physical state
(B) Different mental states
(C) Mental state and the thing it is about
(D) Different bodily states
Ans: C
44. Heideger characterises Dase in in terms of
(A) Affective isolation of being
(B) Being-in-itself
(C) being-for-itself
(D) Affecting relationship with surrounding people and objects
Ans: D
45. “What kind of world we perceive and experience depends upon what kind of beings we are.” This is the conclusion of
(A) Kant
(B) Descartes
(C) Aristotle
(D) Spinoza
Ans: A
46. Truth of reason is justified by
(A) Law of contradiction and principles of sufficient reason
(B) Principles of sufficient reason alone
(C) Law of contradiction alone
(D) Laws of intuitive imagination
Ans: C
47. Within a scientific system of propositions
(A) All propositions can be proved and all terms can be defined.
(B) Not all propositions can be proved but all terms can be defined.
(C) All propositions can be proved but not all terms can be defined.
(D) Not all propositions can be proved and not all terms can be defined.
Ans: D
48. Human Right presupposed
(A) Dignity of human being
(B) Proper living condition of a human being in a particular setup
(C) Rights of human being in a particular society
(D) Universal Rights of human being in a particular society
Ans: A
49. Which one of the options of the followings correctly matches with moral obligation?
(A) Physical compulsion
(B) Self-imposition
(C) External authority
(D) None of these
Ans: B
50. According to Kant, moral duty is
(A) A command of God
(B) Given by one’s intuition
(C) The imperative of pure reason
(D) Determined by morality
Ans: C
(A) Loving those that are affectionate
(B) Loving those whom one likes
(C) Loving those who even hate one
(D) None of the above
Ans: C
2. Which of the theories given below holds the position that ‘object of knowledge owes its existence as well as its properties to the creative activity of the knowing mind’?
(A) Absolute Idealism
(B) Phenomenalism
(C) Metaphysical Idealism
(D) Epistemological Idealism
Ans: D
3. Husserlian expression ‘Epoche’ means
(A) Suspension of Reality
(B) Suspension of World
(C) Suspension of Judgement
(D) Suspension of Experience
Ans: C
4. The theory which restricts our knowledge to phenomenal appearances of an inaccessible reality is
(A) Phenomenology
(B) Subjective Idealism
(C) Phenomenalism
(D) Absolute Idealism
Ans: C
5. Match List – I with List – II and select the correct answer from the codes given below:
List – I List – II
a. Subjective Idealism i. Kant
b. Commonsense Realism ii. Thomas Reid
c. Absolute Idealism iii. Hegel
d. Critical Idealism iv. Berkeley
Codes:
a b c d
(A) iv iii ii i
(B) i ii iii iv
(C) iv ii iii i
(D) iii ii iv i
Ans: C
6. If ‘O’ is false, find out the true option as given below:
(A) I and E are true and A is false.
(B) I and A are true and E is false.
(C) A and I are false and E is true.
(D) O is true but E and I are false.
Ans: B
7. Find out the false statement as given below: Statements:
(A) Converse of ‘A’ is ‘I’.
(B) If ‘A’ is false, then ‘O’ is true.
(C) Obverse of ‘O’ is ‘I’.
(D) Obverse of ‘E’ is ‘I’.
Ans: D
8. Which of the Philosophers noted below stated?
“Utility means the property of any object, whereby it tends to produce benefit, advantage, pleasure, good or happiness or to prevent the happening of mischief, pain, evil, unhappiness to the party whose interest is considered.”?
(A) James Mill
(B) J.S. Mill
(C) Hume
(D) Jeremy Bentham
Ans: D
9. Which of the philosophers noted below propounded ethical gradation of the springs of action?
(A) Cadworth
(B) Sidgewick
(C) Butler
(D) Martineau
Ans: D
10. Consider the following statements with regard to Bentham and choose the correct code: Statements:
1. Bentham dismissed ethics of asceticism as an inverted hedonism.
2. Bentham is an ethical hedonist by virtue of his employment of the pleasure principle as the standard for conduct.
3. Intuitionist ethics was criticized by Bentham for it provides no more than a subjective feeling.
Codes:
(A) Only 1 and 3 are true.
(B) Only 1 and 2 are true
(C) 1, 2 and 3 are true.
(D) Only 2 is true.
Ans: C
11. Hypothesis is a
(A) Free flight of mind
(B) Discovery
(C) Supposition
(D) A provisional supposition to explain a problematic event.
Ans: D
12. According to Shankar Brahman is away from which of the following three distinctions?
(A) Homogenous distinction, Heterogenous distinction, internal distinction
(B) Waking experience, Dreaming experience, Dreamless experience
(C) Experimental contradiction, Logical contradiction, illogical contradiction
(D) None of above
Ans: A
13. Select the correct descending order of Tirthankaras in the context of their period:
(A) R.abhanātha, Anantanatha, Shantinātha, Nemināth, Mahāveera
(B) Anantanatha, Shantinātha, R.abhanātha, Mahāveera, Nemināth
(C) Padmaprabha, Ajitanatha, Mallinātha, R. abhanātha, Shantinātha
(D) R. abhanātha, Anantanatha, Sambhavanātha, Ajitanatha, Mahavira
Ans: A
14. Reality has no assets beyond appearances and if appearances alone to its credit it will be bankrupt.’ is a statement of
(A) Green
(B) Hegel
(C) Bradley
(D) Plato
Ans: C
15. ‘Appearances are the appearances of reality’ is a statement of
(A) Kant
(B) Bradley
(C) Hegel
(D) Green
Ans: B
16. ‘Die to live’ is a statement of
(A) Kant
(B) Hegel
(C) Berkeley
(D) Mill
Ans: B
17. Who has said – ‘My Station and its Duties’?
(A) Plato
(B) Berkeley
(C) Kant
(D) Bradley
Ans: D
18. What does Shankara’s Satkaryavada known as?
(A) Vijnan-Vivartvada
(B) Brahma-Vivartvada
(C) Prakriti-Parinamvada
(D) Brahma-Parinamvada
Ans: B
19. ‘Free-will’ in ethics means
(A) The individual is free to do anything
(B) The individual is not free to do anything
(C) The individual is free to act keeping in view of some norms
(D) None of the above
Ans: C
20. Who highlighted the problem of personal identity first in modern western philosophy?
(A) Strawson
(B) Locke
(C) Kripke
(D) Descartes
Ans: B
21. Which one of the following systems of Indian Philosophy designated Mok a as Nirvana?
(A) Jainism
(B) Buddhism
(C) Yoga
(D) Samkhya
Ans: B
22. Who says that the function of Philosophy is wholly critical?
(A) Aristotle
(B) Ayer
(C) Plato
(D) Hegel
Ans: A
23. On the ground of ‘relation’ propositions are divided into
(A) Categorical and conditional
(B) Affirmative and negative
(C) Universal and particular
(D) Necessary and problematic
Ans: A
24. ‘Universal Affirmative’ and ‘Particular Negative’ propositions are symbolized as
(A) A and E
(B) A and I
(C) E and O
(D) A and O
Ans: D
25. Which one of the following is known as ‘_______ triśara a’ according to Buddhism?
(A) Sravana, Manana, Nididhyasana
(B) Darshana, Jnāna, Caritra
(C) Maitri, Karuna, Mudita
(D) Buddha, Dhamma, Sa gha
Ans: D
26. Which one of the following is a fundamental law of thought?
(A) Law of Reasoning
(B) Law of Excluded Middle
(C) Law of Compatibility
(D) Law of Double Negation
Ans: B
27. In the proposition ‘Very few men are honest’
(A) Only subject term is distributed.
(B) Only predicate term is distributed.
(C) Both the subject term and predicate term is distributed.
(D) Neither of the terms is distributed.
Ans: D
28. In the traditional square of opposition if ‘I’ proposition is false, which one of the following can be determined?
(A) A, E and O are undetermined.
(B) A, E and O are false.
(C) A is true, E is true and O is false.
(D) A is false, E is true and O is true.
Ans: D
29. Which one of the following is the equivalent of ~ p ⊃ q?
(A) p⊃ ~ q
(B) q ν p
(C) q⊃ ~ p
(D) ~ q ⊃ ~ p
Ans: B
30. ‘p.q’, ‘p ν q’, ‘p ⊃ q’ and ‘ p ≡ q’ are all true only when
(A) p is true and q is false.
(B) p is false and q is true.
(C) p and q are both false.
(D) p and q are both true.
Ans: D
31. When two propositions about the same subject-matter cannot both be true together; they are
(A) Contradictories
(B) Contraries
(C) Either contraries or contradictories
(D) Both contraries and contradictories
Ans: C
32. Which one of the following is a propositional function?
(A) All cows are white or all cows are black.
(B) If Socrates is a man, then he is mortal.
(C) X is pretty.
(D) For any x, if x is a man, then x is rational.
Ans: C
33. When one mistakes one kind of facts with some other kind, one commits a
(A) Hypothetical mistake
(B) Legal mistake
(C) Moral mistake
(D) Categorical mistake
Answer: (Wrong question)
34. According to ‘representationalism’, a belief accounts for knowledge
(A) Only if it is a false belief.
(B) Only if it is a true belief.
(C) Only if it is indifferent to truth and falsity.
(D) Only if it does not picture reality.
Ans: B
35. G.E. Moore is an ethical
(A) Cognitivist
(B) Non-cognitivist
(C) Descriptivist
(D) Non-descriptivist
Ans: C
36. Match List – I with List – II and select the correct answer from the code given below:
List – I List – II
a. Antinomy of quality i. The world is either finite or infinite.
b. Antinomy of quantity ii. Matter is either indivisible or infinitely divisible.
c. Antinomy of modality iii. The world must have a cause or no cause.
d. Antinomy of relation iv. All changes and conditions presuppose something that does not change and is unconditioned.
Codes:
a b c d
(A) iii iv i ii
(B) iv iii ii i
(C) i ii iii iv
(D) ii i iv iii
Ans: D
37. According to the feminist thinker Kristeva, religion as a language maintains the tension between an
(A) Physical needs and personal cognition of reality.
(B) Psychological needs and objective cognition of reality.
(C) Psychological needs and personal cognition of reality.
(D) Divine needs and theological cognition of reality.
Ans: C
38. Kant’s Conception of the ‘Kingdom of ends’ approximates to the Gita’s Conception of ______.
(A) Asceticism
(B) Solidarity of humanity
(C) Humanism
(D) Atheism
Ans: B
39. Ontological Dualism is a theory which held _______
(A) Mind and body are different entities acting together.
(B) Mind and matter are independent of each other.
(C) There are two ultimate realities which act together in coherent manner.
(D) There are two ultimate realities independent of each other.
Ans: D
40. According to Nyāya system vyatirekavyāpti between hetu and sādhya obtains when
(A) All cases of hetu are cases of absence of sādhya.
(B) Some cases of hetu are cases of sādhya.
(C) Some cases of sādhya are cases of hetu.
(D) All cases of absence of sādhya are cases of absence of hetu.
Ans: D
41. W.V.O. Quine is an ontological relativist because he believes in
(A) Inscrutability of reference
(B) Picture theory of meaning
(C) Forms of life
(D) Family resemblances
Ans: A
42. True knowledge according to J. Krishnamurti is
(A) Revealed by mystics
(B) Conditioned by experience
(C) Obtained by religious reflection
(D) Unconditional awareness
Ans: D
43. The problem of intentionality is thatof understanding the relation between
(A) A mental state and corresponding physical state
(B) Different mental states
(C) Mental state and the thing it is about
(D) Different bodily states
Ans: C
44. Heideger characterises Dase in in terms of
(A) Affective isolation of being
(B) Being-in-itself
(C) being-for-itself
(D) Affecting relationship with surrounding people and objects
Ans: D
45. “What kind of world we perceive and experience depends upon what kind of beings we are.” This is the conclusion of
(A) Kant
(B) Descartes
(C) Aristotle
(D) Spinoza
Ans: A
46. Truth of reason is justified by
(A) Law of contradiction and principles of sufficient reason
(B) Principles of sufficient reason alone
(C) Law of contradiction alone
(D) Laws of intuitive imagination
Ans: C
47. Within a scientific system of propositions
(A) All propositions can be proved and all terms can be defined.
(B) Not all propositions can be proved but all terms can be defined.
(C) All propositions can be proved but not all terms can be defined.
(D) Not all propositions can be proved and not all terms can be defined.
Ans: D
48. Human Right presupposed
(A) Dignity of human being
(B) Proper living condition of a human being in a particular setup
(C) Rights of human being in a particular society
(D) Universal Rights of human being in a particular society
Ans: A
49. Which one of the options of the followings correctly matches with moral obligation?
(A) Physical compulsion
(B) Self-imposition
(C) External authority
(D) None of these
Ans: B
50. According to Kant, moral duty is
(A) A command of God
(B) Given by one’s intuition
(C) The imperative of pure reason
(D) Determined by morality
Ans: C
51. Mahatma Gandhi criticized industrialisation in one of the following writings:
(A) Autobiography
(B) Hind Swaraj
(C) Key to health
(D) Harijan
Ans: B
52. Which of the following pairs of religion could be considered as ‘non-theistic’ in perspective?
(A) Judaism – Christianity
(B) Islam – Zoroastrianism
(C) Jainism – Buddhism
(D) Hinduism – Sikhism
Ans: D
53. Which of the following set of religions believe in the concept of salvation?
(A) Jainism and Islam
(B) Islam and Christianity
(C) Hinduism and Christianity
(D) Buddhism and Jainism
Ans: C
54. Which of the following set of religions can be formed as Semitic religions?
(A) Islam – Jainism – Judaism
(B) Jainism – Buddhism – Sikhism
(C) Hinduism – Islam – Christianity
(D) Judaism – Christianity – Islam
Ans: D
55. Consider List – I and List – II and select the code correctly matched:
List – I List – II
(a) Hinduism (i) Bible
(b) Zoroastrianism (ii) Avesta
(c) Jainism (iii) Bhagvadgita
(d) Christianity (iv) Tattvarthasutra
Codes:
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) (iv) (ii) (iii) (i)
(B) (i) (iv) (iii) (ii)
(C) (ii) (iv) (iii) (i)
(D) (iii) (ii) (iv) (i)
Ans: D
56. Name the author of the celebrated article “On Denoting”.
(A) Quine
(B) Davidson
(C) Russell
(D) Frege
Ans: C
57. Frege makes a distinction between the following:
(A) Sense and Common Sense
(B) Sense and Reference
(C) Sense and Truth Condition
(D) Sense and Nonsense
Ans: B
58. According to J.L. Austin the “locationary act” is the act of
(A) Saying something grammatically and intelligently
(B) Doing something in making the utterance
(C) Doing something by saying something
(D) All the above
Ans: A
59. According to whom language functions not on the sentence-to sentence basis, but as a whole?
(A) Frege
(B) Russell
(C) Early Wittgenstein
(D) Quine
Ans: D
60. P.F. Strawson’s metaphysics is called
(A) Descriptive
(B) Revisionary
(C) Idealistic
(D) Nihilistic
Ans: A
61. Name the philosopher who is not a phenomenologist.
(A) Brentano
(B) Meinong
(C) Husserl
(D) Quine
Ans: D
62. Name the author of Logical Investigations:
(A) Wittgenstein
(B) Husserl
(C) Dummett
(D) Heidegger
Ans: B
63. Husserl’s transcendental-phenomenological reduction is aimed at discovering
(A) Empirical ego
(B) Phenomenological ego
(C) Intersubjective ego
(D) Transcendental ego
Ans: B
64. The term hermneutics covers
(A) Understanding Text
(B) Interpretation of Text
(C) Both (A) & (B)
(D) Neither (A) nor (B)
Ans: C
65. Hermeneutic humanism was subscribed by
(A) Heidegger
(B) Gadamer
(C) Ronald Barthes
(D) Richard Rorty
Ans: B
66. In Advaita Vedanta maya is
(A) Real
(B) Unreal
(C) Both real and unreal
(D) Neither real nor unreal
Ans: D
67. According to Ramanuja, human soul is
(A) All pervading
(B) Of Atomic size
(C) Of Medium size
(D) None of the above
Ans: B
68. According to Ramanuja, the relation between self and God is that of
(A) Identity
(B) Difference
(C) Both identity and difference
(D) Neither identity nor difference
Ans: C
69. Liberation, according to Ramanuja, means
(A) Identity between God and Soul
(B) Similarity between God and Soul
(C) Both identity and similarity between God and Soul
(D) Neither identity nor similarity between God and Soul
Ans: B
70. The theory of error accepted by Samkara is known as
(A) Akhyativada
(B) Anirvacaniyakhyativada
(C) Anyathakhyativada
(D) Satkhyativada
Ans: B
71. For Gandhi, the political and economic organization of the State should be based on
(A) Growing mechanization and physical satisfactions
(B) The moral and intellectual development of the individual
(C) Full state control and direction
(D) By representation of workers
Ans: B
72. Gandhi’s solution of all social problems ultimately rests on
(A) Establishing the kingdom of God on earth
(B) Total and unprecedented humanistic outlook
(C) Total self-sacrificing
(D) Total love and feeling for all
Ans: A
73. Gandhi developed the ideology of ‘Sarvodaya’
(A) Through the influencing writings of Henry David and Thoreau
(B) Through the influencing writings of Srimad Rajchandra
(C) Through the influencing writings of Ruskin
(D) Through the influencing writings of Leo Tolstoy
Ans: C
74. For Gandhi, the method of non violence has to be
(A) Non-involving at all with others
(B) Non-involving in conflicts with others
(C) Defying the enemy and still winning and converting him
(D) All of the above
Ans: C
75. The enjoyment of fruits of the Karma that not yet has been started is called
(A) Sa~nćitā Karma
(B) Sa~nc–iyamāna Karma
(C) Prārabdha Karma
(D) Anārabdha Karma
Ans: A
76. Who holds knowledge as a substance?
(A) Samkhya and Advaita Vedānta
(B) Samkhya and Yoga
(C) Advaita Vedanta and Jaina
(D) Nyāya and Buddhist
Ans: A
77. Which one of the following pairs reflects two fundamental crises of Modern Culture according to Husserl?
(A) War and Terrorism
(B) Rationality and Technology
(C) Relativism and Scepticism
(D) Agnosticism and Scepticism
Ans: C
78. Who says “Consciousness is the whole or true self claiming to the legislative for its parts. Its claim is the claim of the self, as a conscious and rational being, to judge any particular manifestation of itself in voluntary action”?
(A) Whitehead
(B) Ross
(C) Muirhead
(D) Clark
Ans: C
79. The ‘Right of Contract’ is indispensable for
(A) Right to live
(B) Right to be free
(C) Right to property
(D) Right to education
Ans: C
80. As an empiricist, Locke claims that all our knowledge is derived either through sensation or
(A) Perception
(B) Reflection
(C) Thinking
(D) None of the above
Ans: B
81. According to Kant, the ideas of‘reason’ are
(A) Regulative and constitutive
(B) Affirmative and negative
(C) Negative and probable
(D) Constitutive and regulative
Ans: D
82. According to Kant, a person becomes aware of the freedom of his will because
(A) It is an apriori condition of the experience of obligation.
(B) He has empirical experience of it.
(C) It is an apriori condition of experience of senses.
(D) It can be demonstrated by science.
Ans: A
83. Match List – I with List – II and choose the correct answer from the code given below:
List – I List – II
(Ideas) (Philosophers)
a. Swaraj is my birth right i. Sri Rabindranath Tagore
b. Awakening in the Land of Heaven ii. Mahatma Gandhi
c. Hind Swaraj iii. Dr. K.C. Bhattacharya
d. Swaraj in Ideas iv. Lokmānya B.G. Tilak
Codes:
a b c d
(A) iv i ii iii
(B) ii i iv iii
(C) iii i ii iv
(D) i iii ii iv
Ans: A
84. The ideal of Niskāmakarma implies
(A) Motiveless action
(B) Desireless action
(C) Inaction
(D) Infatuated action
Ans: B
85. Who holds ūtārthapatti as a form of arthāpatti?
(A) Prābhākar Mimāsā and Bhātta Mimāsā
(B) Bhātta Mimāsā and Vedānta
(C) Bhātta Mimāsā and Nyāya
(D) Prābhākara Mimāsā and Vedānta
Ans: B
86. Match List – I with List – II and select correct answer by using code given below:
List – I List – II
a. Buddhism i. Both prāmāya and aprāmāya are Swatah
b. Sākhya ii. Both prāmāya and aprāmāya are Paratah
c. Nyāyavaiśesikā iii. Swatahprāmāya and paratahaprāmāya
d. Jainism iv. Both prāmānya and aprāmāya are paratah (origin)
Codes:
a b c d
(A) iii i ii iv
(B) i ii iii iv
(C) ii iii i iv
(D) iii i iv ii
Ans: A
87. Who aims the objective study of consciousness?
(A) Phenomenalism
(B) Existentialism
(C) Phenomenology
(D) Idealism
Ans: C
88. According to Nyāya during the perception of Abhāva ‘Indriyārtha- Sannikarsa’ takes place though
(A) Samyoga
(B) Samavāya
(C) Viśesana – veśesa – bhāva
(D) Samveta – Samvāya
Ans: C
89. The anumāna ‘Śabdahnityahk takatvāt’, commits the hetvābhāsa known as
(A) Satpratipaksa
(B) Asiddha
(C) Viruddha
(D) Bādhita
Ans: C
90.Pañcakalpanā, according to the Buddhists, is
(A) Nāma, jāti, guna, kriyā and avayava
(B) Nāma, jāti, guna, kriyā and dravya
(C) Nāma, jāti, guna, kriyā and svalaksana
(D) Nāma, sāmānyalaksana, guna, kriyā and svalaksana
Ans: B
91. Who said that there is a central fire around which the earth, the sun, the moon and five planets move?
(A) Thales
(B) Heraclitus
(C) Pythagoras
(D) Anaximander
Ans: C
92. What are the objects of Sāmānyalaksana pratyaksa?
(A) Universal character of an individual
(B) Universal and the particular at the same time
(C) All the individuals belonging to a class
(D) An individual characterised by its universal.
Ans: C
93. Read following options and choose the right answer from given code:
Options:
1. The means may be linked to a seed and the end to a tree.
2. There is no wall of separation between means and end.
3. The realisation of the goal is proportional to the means employed.
Codes:
(A) 1 and 2
(B) 2 and 3
(C) 1 and 3
(D) 1, 2, and 3
Ans: D
94. Which one of the following pairs is correctly matched?
(A) Leibnitz – Pragmatic theory of truth
(B) Descartes – Correspondence theory of truth
(C) Spinoza – The self-evidence theory of truth
(D) William James – Coherence theory of truth
Ans: C
95. According to Nyaya-Vaiśesika, the non-existence of jar on the floor is perceived because
(A) The eye is in contact with the floor, which is qualified by the floorness.
(B) The eye is in contact with the floor, which is qualified by non-existence of the jar.
(C) There is no jar qualified by floorness.
(D) There is only floor not qualified by jarness.
Ans: B
96. According to Nyāya school anumiti is possible without
(A) Paksha jnāna
(B) Paramarajnāna
(C) Sādhyajnāna
(D) Udhāraajnāna
Ans: C
97. The view ‘Truth of Cognition exists in its utilitarian value, is supported by
(A) Emotive theory
(B) Coherence theory
(C) Pragmatic theory
(D) Semantic theory
Ans: C
98. The conversational method of Socrates took place in the form of
(A) A Sceptic
(B) A Certainty
(C) A kind of Dialectic
(D) As a Verbal Jugglary
Ans: C
99. The conceptual instrument with which inductive conclusions are expressed is
(A) The concept of necessity.
(B) The concept of relation.
(C) The concept of probability.
(D) None of the above
Ans: C
100. To whom of the following statement can be rightfully attributed to ‘He reads Shankara from a Hegelian point of view’?
(A) Swami Vivekananda
(B) Sri Aurobindo
(C) Dr. S. Radhakrishnan
(D) J. Krishnamurthy
Ans: B
(A) Autobiography
(B) Hind Swaraj
(C) Key to health
(D) Harijan
Ans: B
52. Which of the following pairs of religion could be considered as ‘non-theistic’ in perspective?
(A) Judaism – Christianity
(B) Islam – Zoroastrianism
(C) Jainism – Buddhism
(D) Hinduism – Sikhism
Ans: D
53. Which of the following set of religions believe in the concept of salvation?
(A) Jainism and Islam
(B) Islam and Christianity
(C) Hinduism and Christianity
(D) Buddhism and Jainism
Ans: C
54. Which of the following set of religions can be formed as Semitic religions?
(A) Islam – Jainism – Judaism
(B) Jainism – Buddhism – Sikhism
(C) Hinduism – Islam – Christianity
(D) Judaism – Christianity – Islam
Ans: D
55. Consider List – I and List – II and select the code correctly matched:
List – I List – II
(a) Hinduism (i) Bible
(b) Zoroastrianism (ii) Avesta
(c) Jainism (iii) Bhagvadgita
(d) Christianity (iv) Tattvarthasutra
Codes:
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) (iv) (ii) (iii) (i)
(B) (i) (iv) (iii) (ii)
(C) (ii) (iv) (iii) (i)
(D) (iii) (ii) (iv) (i)
Ans: D
56. Name the author of the celebrated article “On Denoting”.
(A) Quine
(B) Davidson
(C) Russell
(D) Frege
Ans: C
57. Frege makes a distinction between the following:
(A) Sense and Common Sense
(B) Sense and Reference
(C) Sense and Truth Condition
(D) Sense and Nonsense
Ans: B
58. According to J.L. Austin the “locationary act” is the act of
(A) Saying something grammatically and intelligently
(B) Doing something in making the utterance
(C) Doing something by saying something
(D) All the above
Ans: A
59. According to whom language functions not on the sentence-to sentence basis, but as a whole?
(A) Frege
(B) Russell
(C) Early Wittgenstein
(D) Quine
Ans: D
60. P.F. Strawson’s metaphysics is called
(A) Descriptive
(B) Revisionary
(C) Idealistic
(D) Nihilistic
Ans: A
61. Name the philosopher who is not a phenomenologist.
(A) Brentano
(B) Meinong
(C) Husserl
(D) Quine
Ans: D
62. Name the author of Logical Investigations:
(A) Wittgenstein
(B) Husserl
(C) Dummett
(D) Heidegger
Ans: B
63. Husserl’s transcendental-phenomenological reduction is aimed at discovering
(A) Empirical ego
(B) Phenomenological ego
(C) Intersubjective ego
(D) Transcendental ego
Ans: B
64. The term hermneutics covers
(A) Understanding Text
(B) Interpretation of Text
(C) Both (A) & (B)
(D) Neither (A) nor (B)
Ans: C
65. Hermeneutic humanism was subscribed by
(A) Heidegger
(B) Gadamer
(C) Ronald Barthes
(D) Richard Rorty
Ans: B
66. In Advaita Vedanta maya is
(A) Real
(B) Unreal
(C) Both real and unreal
(D) Neither real nor unreal
Ans: D
67. According to Ramanuja, human soul is
(A) All pervading
(B) Of Atomic size
(C) Of Medium size
(D) None of the above
Ans: B
68. According to Ramanuja, the relation between self and God is that of
(A) Identity
(B) Difference
(C) Both identity and difference
(D) Neither identity nor difference
Ans: C
69. Liberation, according to Ramanuja, means
(A) Identity between God and Soul
(B) Similarity between God and Soul
(C) Both identity and similarity between God and Soul
(D) Neither identity nor similarity between God and Soul
Ans: B
70. The theory of error accepted by Samkara is known as
(A) Akhyativada
(B) Anirvacaniyakhyativada
(C) Anyathakhyativada
(D) Satkhyativada
Ans: B
71. For Gandhi, the political and economic organization of the State should be based on
(A) Growing mechanization and physical satisfactions
(B) The moral and intellectual development of the individual
(C) Full state control and direction
(D) By representation of workers
Ans: B
72. Gandhi’s solution of all social problems ultimately rests on
(A) Establishing the kingdom of God on earth
(B) Total and unprecedented humanistic outlook
(C) Total self-sacrificing
(D) Total love and feeling for all
Ans: A
73. Gandhi developed the ideology of ‘Sarvodaya’
(A) Through the influencing writings of Henry David and Thoreau
(B) Through the influencing writings of Srimad Rajchandra
(C) Through the influencing writings of Ruskin
(D) Through the influencing writings of Leo Tolstoy
Ans: C
74. For Gandhi, the method of non violence has to be
(A) Non-involving at all with others
(B) Non-involving in conflicts with others
(C) Defying the enemy and still winning and converting him
(D) All of the above
Ans: C
75. The enjoyment of fruits of the Karma that not yet has been started is called
(A) Sa~nćitā Karma
(B) Sa~nc–iyamāna Karma
(C) Prārabdha Karma
(D) Anārabdha Karma
Ans: A
76. Who holds knowledge as a substance?
(A) Samkhya and Advaita Vedānta
(B) Samkhya and Yoga
(C) Advaita Vedanta and Jaina
(D) Nyāya and Buddhist
Ans: A
77. Which one of the following pairs reflects two fundamental crises of Modern Culture according to Husserl?
(A) War and Terrorism
(B) Rationality and Technology
(C) Relativism and Scepticism
(D) Agnosticism and Scepticism
Ans: C
78. Who says “Consciousness is the whole or true self claiming to the legislative for its parts. Its claim is the claim of the self, as a conscious and rational being, to judge any particular manifestation of itself in voluntary action”?
(A) Whitehead
(B) Ross
(C) Muirhead
(D) Clark
Ans: C
79. The ‘Right of Contract’ is indispensable for
(A) Right to live
(B) Right to be free
(C) Right to property
(D) Right to education
Ans: C
80. As an empiricist, Locke claims that all our knowledge is derived either through sensation or
(A) Perception
(B) Reflection
(C) Thinking
(D) None of the above
Ans: B
81. According to Kant, the ideas of‘reason’ are
(A) Regulative and constitutive
(B) Affirmative and negative
(C) Negative and probable
(D) Constitutive and regulative
Ans: D
82. According to Kant, a person becomes aware of the freedom of his will because
(A) It is an apriori condition of the experience of obligation.
(B) He has empirical experience of it.
(C) It is an apriori condition of experience of senses.
(D) It can be demonstrated by science.
Ans: A
83. Match List – I with List – II and choose the correct answer from the code given below:
List – I List – II
(Ideas) (Philosophers)
a. Swaraj is my birth right i. Sri Rabindranath Tagore
b. Awakening in the Land of Heaven ii. Mahatma Gandhi
c. Hind Swaraj iii. Dr. K.C. Bhattacharya
d. Swaraj in Ideas iv. Lokmānya B.G. Tilak
Codes:
a b c d
(A) iv i ii iii
(B) ii i iv iii
(C) iii i ii iv
(D) i iii ii iv
Ans: A
84. The ideal of Niskāmakarma implies
(A) Motiveless action
(B) Desireless action
(C) Inaction
(D) Infatuated action
Ans: B
85. Who holds ūtārthapatti as a form of arthāpatti?
(A) Prābhākar Mimāsā and Bhātta Mimāsā
(B) Bhātta Mimāsā and Vedānta
(C) Bhātta Mimāsā and Nyāya
(D) Prābhākara Mimāsā and Vedānta
Ans: B
86. Match List – I with List – II and select correct answer by using code given below:
List – I List – II
a. Buddhism i. Both prāmāya and aprāmāya are Swatah
b. Sākhya ii. Both prāmāya and aprāmāya are Paratah
c. Nyāyavaiśesikā iii. Swatahprāmāya and paratahaprāmāya
d. Jainism iv. Both prāmānya and aprāmāya are paratah (origin)
Codes:
a b c d
(A) iii i ii iv
(B) i ii iii iv
(C) ii iii i iv
(D) iii i iv ii
Ans: A
87. Who aims the objective study of consciousness?
(A) Phenomenalism
(B) Existentialism
(C) Phenomenology
(D) Idealism
Ans: C
88. According to Nyāya during the perception of Abhāva ‘Indriyārtha- Sannikarsa’ takes place though
(A) Samyoga
(B) Samavāya
(C) Viśesana – veśesa – bhāva
(D) Samveta – Samvāya
Ans: C
89. The anumāna ‘Śabdahnityahk takatvāt’, commits the hetvābhāsa known as
(A) Satpratipaksa
(B) Asiddha
(C) Viruddha
(D) Bādhita
Ans: C
90.Pañcakalpanā, according to the Buddhists, is
(A) Nāma, jāti, guna, kriyā and avayava
(B) Nāma, jāti, guna, kriyā and dravya
(C) Nāma, jāti, guna, kriyā and svalaksana
(D) Nāma, sāmānyalaksana, guna, kriyā and svalaksana
Ans: B
91. Who said that there is a central fire around which the earth, the sun, the moon and five planets move?
(A) Thales
(B) Heraclitus
(C) Pythagoras
(D) Anaximander
Ans: C
92. What are the objects of Sāmānyalaksana pratyaksa?
(A) Universal character of an individual
(B) Universal and the particular at the same time
(C) All the individuals belonging to a class
(D) An individual characterised by its universal.
Ans: C
93. Read following options and choose the right answer from given code:
Options:
1. The means may be linked to a seed and the end to a tree.
2. There is no wall of separation between means and end.
3. The realisation of the goal is proportional to the means employed.
Codes:
(A) 1 and 2
(B) 2 and 3
(C) 1 and 3
(D) 1, 2, and 3
Ans: D
94. Which one of the following pairs is correctly matched?
(A) Leibnitz – Pragmatic theory of truth
(B) Descartes – Correspondence theory of truth
(C) Spinoza – The self-evidence theory of truth
(D) William James – Coherence theory of truth
Ans: C
95. According to Nyaya-Vaiśesika, the non-existence of jar on the floor is perceived because
(A) The eye is in contact with the floor, which is qualified by the floorness.
(B) The eye is in contact with the floor, which is qualified by non-existence of the jar.
(C) There is no jar qualified by floorness.
(D) There is only floor not qualified by jarness.
Ans: B
96. According to Nyāya school anumiti is possible without
(A) Paksha jnāna
(B) Paramarajnāna
(C) Sādhyajnāna
(D) Udhāraajnāna
Ans: C
97. The view ‘Truth of Cognition exists in its utilitarian value, is supported by
(A) Emotive theory
(B) Coherence theory
(C) Pragmatic theory
(D) Semantic theory
Ans: C
98. The conversational method of Socrates took place in the form of
(A) A Sceptic
(B) A Certainty
(C) A kind of Dialectic
(D) As a Verbal Jugglary
Ans: C
99. The conceptual instrument with which inductive conclusions are expressed is
(A) The concept of necessity.
(B) The concept of relation.
(C) The concept of probability.
(D) None of the above
Ans: C
100. To whom of the following statement can be rightfully attributed to ‘He reads Shankara from a Hegelian point of view’?
(A) Swami Vivekananda
(B) Sri Aurobindo
(C) Dr. S. Radhakrishnan
(D) J. Krishnamurthy
Ans: B