PHILOSOPHY PAPER III Note This paper contains seventy five objective type questions of two marks each. All questions are compulsory.

1 'Names give us universals which are purely imaginary, illusory and negative'. The view is propounded by

Dharmakirti

Dinnaga

Prabhakara

Kamalsila

2 'When substance does not exist, the qualities which depend on it also do not exist' -is the view held by

Jainas

Naiyayikas

Mimanisakas

Buddhists

3 Accepted and confirmed by the Jaina school of thought which of the following does not belong to the category of Triratna

Samyak Jnana

Samyak Caritraya

Samyak Prayas

Samyak Dars'ana

4 Khyati is not a unitary knowledge but is a composite of two unrelated cognitions is the view propounded by

Prabhakara

Kumarila

Ramanuja

Udyotkara

5 Which one of the following represents Novelty as the feature of knowledge according to Purva-Mimanisa

Yathartha

Badhaka Jnanarahita

Agrhitagrahi

Karanadosarahita

6 Match List-I with List-II and choose the correct answer with the help of codes given below

List-I List-II
Paksadharmata (i) fire is cool
Vi-paksasattva (ii) sound is eternal as it is caused
Badhita (iii) smoke is present in the hill
Viruddha (iv) fire in the lake

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7 Which of the following is an equivalent of Rta?

Aditi

Indra

Soma

Usas

8 The term Yoga in Bhagvadgita has not been used in the sense of

Samatva

Kausala

Karma

Kriya

9 The respective stages of self evolution in Jainism are known as

Apramattasmayat

Avirat

Upasantakasaya

Gunasthana

10 Which of the following pair aptly depicts the verse as 'Ksara'and 'Kutastha' as XX 'Aksara'

Prakrti-Purusa

Jiva Maya

Brahma Jiva

Maya Jiva

11 Which of the following texts assumes the process of creation in the form of

Purusa Sukta

Nasadiya Sukta

Hiranyagarbha Sukta

Taittirya Brahmana

12 According to Bhagvadgita which of the following is authentic authority in deciding between 'kartavya' and 'Akartavya'

Aptavakya

Parampara

Sastra

Svatma

13 Which one of the following does not refer to 'Prakrti' according to Bhagvadgita

Mahat

Caitanya

Kartr

Buddhi

14 According Vai sesikato Nitya dravya is

Tryanuka

Atman

Dvyanuka

Karma

15 Which one of the following is not a relation

Svarupa

Aprthaksiddhi

Guna

Samavaya

16 'Religion is a Home Sickness', stated by

Radhakrishnan

Vivekananda

Tagore

Gandhi

17 Dik, Atman and Manas according to the Naiyayikas are

Bhautika

Murta

Both bhautika and murta

Neither bhautika nor murta

18 Match the following lists and choose the correct code List-I List-II
Brahman Vyavaharika Satta
Svapna Paramarthika Satta
Jagat Pratibhasika Satta
Turiya Tadatmya

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19 In Kantian ethics objective principle of action' is called

a maxim

a rule

a practical law

an imperative

20 Which one of the followings has recommended internal sanctions

Bentham

Spencer

Mill

Epicuras

21 'Either freedom of will is a fact or moral judgement a delusion' this statement is of

Martineau

Hobbes

Kant

Mill

22 'Divine law is the ultimate moral law'. Which one of the following holds this view

Hobbes

Desecrates

Bain

Spencer

23 Mark the correct alternative from the following According to Perfectionism

Pleasure alone is the standard of morality.

Reason alone is the standard of morality.

Intuition is the standard of morality.

Utility is the index of morality.

24 Match List-I with List-II and choose the correct answer with the help of code given below

List-I List-II

(Authors)(Texts)

Ross Prolegomena to Ethics
Moore Foundations of Ethics
Kant Ethics
Green Metaphysics of Morals

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25 Who among the following has said 'Nothing is unconditionally good save the good will'

Clark

Martineau

Sidgwick

Kant

26 Only the motive of an action is the basis of its moral Judgement. Which one of the following holds this view

Hedonist

Rationalist

Intuitionist

Rigorist

27 Which one of the following thinkers has regarded A-words, D-words and G-words as belonging to one family

Moore

Ross

Spencer

Nowell-smith

28 Which one of the following has stated that there is emotive factor in moral judgement

Moore

Ross

Ayer

Stevenson

29 Galloway does not accept one of the following as a form of Religion

Tribal Religion

National Religion

Universal Religion

Primitive Religion

30 Which of the following is the source of

Primitive Religion

Naturalistic Religion

Humanistic Religion

None of the above

31 Which one of the following is true about the position of Gandhi

God and truth are universal concepts.

God is absolute and truth is relative.

God and truth are interchangeable.

God is truth and truth is god.

32 The principle of 'Bread labour' for Gandhi essentially consists of

Mental work

Physical work

Social work

Political work

33 Non-violence according to Gandhi is not

The law of the human species

The Gospel of human action

Goodwill towards all life

Passive resistance

34 Gandhian economic programmes were based on

Ideal principles of economic grasping

By producing all wants of the people

The ideal of self sufficiency

Sharing all economic productions

35 Brahman according to vallabha is

Nirgunaonly

Saguna only r r

Both Nirguna and Saguna

Neither

36 The relation between Brahman and Jivatma according to Madhva is

Abheda

Bheda

Bhedabheda

All the above

37 'Samvrti' is distinguished as 'Tathyasamvrti' and 'Mithyasamvrti'by

Aryadeva

Dinnaga

Na g arjuna

Chandrakirti

38 Match the following using the proper code

List-I List-II
Sam kara Visnutattvavinirnaya
Vallabha Drgdrsya viveka
Madhva (iii) Prasthanaratnakara
Nimbarka (iv) Vedanta Parijata Kusuma

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39 "Words are relational and thus state only about the universal (Jati) not the Real (Svalaksna)"

Aryadeva

Chandrak irti

Nagarjuna

Dinnaga

40 The view that -hermeneutics should confine itself to the epistemological problems of interpretation and not try to engage with the deepest conditions of human existence -held by

Paul Ricoeur

Emilio Betti

Habermors

Derrida

41 Who among the following has maintained a distinction between grammatical interpretation and psychological interpretation

Wilhelm Dilthey

Friedrich Schleiermacher

Gadamer

Heidegger

42 Truth is a necessary constituent of a systematically coherent whole can be ascribed to

Pragmatic theory of truth

Correspondence theory of truth

Coherence theory of truth

Relational theory of truth

43 Who among the following philosophers held that the correspondence theory of truth is of an identity between constituents of the fact and that of the proposition

Frege

Russell

Carnap

Quine

44 Which one of the following correctly depicts the concept of 'Atyantabhava'

total absence of colour in air.
the absence of a relation between two things in the past, present and future.
this absence has a beginning but does not have an end.

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Only and are true.

Only and are true.

Only is true.

Only is true.

45 Which one of the following is the stand point of anti-realism

There is no guarantee that every declarative sentence is determinately true or false.

Every declarative sentence is determinately true or false.

Every declarative sentence is always true.

Every declarative sentence is always false.

46 Consider the following statements with reference to Frege and mark the correct code is
Frege introduces a distinction between the reference and the sense of an expression.
Objects are what proper names stand for.
He invented the theory of quantification.

Codes

Only and are true.

Only and are true.

Only is true.

All and are true.

47 Who among the following philosophers criticised the concept of human rights by saying .there are no such rights and belief in them is one with belief in witches and in unicorns".

Jeremy Bentham

Alasdair Maclntyre

Edmand Burke

John Locke

48 Atoms according to Naiyayikas are inactive and motionless, this leads to conclude that
Motion is imparted to them by unseen power (Adrsta) of Dharma and Adharma residing in individual soul.
Atoms combine in geometrical progression and not in arithmetical way.
Physical order presupposes the moral order.

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is a valid inference.

is an invalid inference.

are valid inferences.

are valid inferences.

49 Mark the code which does not consist a true statement

A conjunction is true if all of its components are true but false otherwise.

Every compound statement is a truth functional statement.

In two valued logic every statement is either true or false.

A simple statement is a statement that does not contain any other statement as its component part.

50 Who one of the following held that space and time are a priori percepts

Hume

Kant

Leibnitz

Einstein

51 Consider the following statements with reference to Upamana (Comparison) and mark the correct code.

Vedantins argue that Upamana can be derived syllogistically from the premises.
Samkhya school of thinkers hold thatUpamana can be shown to be a case of perception.
According to Nyaya comparison is the knowledge of the relation between a word and the object denoted by that word.

Codes


Only and are true.

Only and are true.

Only is true.

All and are true.

52 Consider the given Assertion and Reason with reference to inductive inference and mark the correct code from below.

Assertion Inductive inference proceeds from known to the unknown.

Reason :Inductive inference attempts to reach a conclusion concerning all the members of a class from observation of all of them.

Codes

Both and are true and is the correct explanation of

Both and are true and is not the correct explanation of

is true and is false.

is true and is false.

53 Who holds that matter, motion, space and time are relativities

Newton

Einstein

Hume

Leibnitz

54 Which one of the following is not a kind of 'uniformity' according to Mill Mark the correct option.

Uniformity of succession

Uniformity of science

Uniformity of coexistence

Uniformity of similarity

55 Consequence of action is the basis of moral Judgement. Which one of the following holds this view

Hedonist

Intuitionist

Rigorist

Idealist

56 Austin while giving an account of correspondence makes a distinction between

Descriptive and Demonstrative conventions

Descriptive and correlative conventions

Demonstrative and locutionary conventions

Locutionary and perlocutionary conventions

57 Who among the following philosophers criticised Frege's method of building up the series of natural numbers out of merely logical notions

Wittgenstein

Austin

Bertrand Russell

Strawson

58 According to Rusell, denoting phrases are phrases which

have a complete meaning

never have any meaning in themselves

have meaning independent of a proposition

contain meanings in themselves

59 Protocol statements according to logical positivism refer to

Complex empirical statements

Simple relational statements

Elementary statements

Metaphorical statements

60 Consider the following statements with reference to induction and mark the correct code.

J.S. Mill conceived induction as essentially an evidencing process.
Whewell conceives it as essentially discovery.
Charles peirce views induction as generalisation and contrasts it with inference.

Codes


Only and are true.

Only and are true.

All and are true.

Only is true.

61 Which of the following statements is not acceptable to a sceptic

No absolute, unquestionable, complete knowledge is possible.

Evidence is indecisive, judgement should be suspended.

There are fixed and eternal values which stand irrespective of time and place.

Questioning or doubting as a means to gaining knowledge.

62 Which of the following statement;s is;are true with reference to Plato Mark the correct code.

Justice is a quality of the soul.
Spirit of collectivism should permeate the individual.
The eternal laws of morality are not mere conventions.

Codes


Only is true.

Only is true.

Only and are true.

and are true.

63 Match List-I with List-II with reference to idealism and mark the correct code.

List-I List-II
Personalistic idealism Finite self is a part, mode or appearance of the one
Monistic idealism Concrete reality is personal selfhood
Subjective idealism Recognises the reality of non-ideal types
Realistic idealism Nature is merely the projection of the finite mind

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64 Perception is an unerring knowledge of the unique particular is the view of.

Buddhists

Prabhakara

Naiyay ikas

Vedantins

65 Who propounded the 'law of sufficient reason'

Aristotle

Plato

Leibnitz

Kant

66 Examine given argument and choose the correct name of the fallacy out of codes given below.

Argument
All horses are four footed animals.
No oxen are horse.
No oxen are four footed animal.

Codes


Fallacy of illicit major

Fallacy of illicit middle

Fallacy of illicit minor

None of these

67 According to 'opposition of propositions' if .summer days are generally hot" is true the propositions .All summer days are hot" will be

True

False

Doubtful

None of these

68 An argument has essentially

Form and proposition

Truth and form

Truth and fallacity

Form, proposition and truth

69 Which one of the following is the right symbolization of statement .Bees and wasps sting if they are either angry or frightened" Wx, Sx, Ax, Fx)

v Fx)

v Wx) v Fx)

(Bx v Wx) Ax v Fx Sx

(Bx v Wx) (Ax v Fx) Sx

70 Examine following argument and spot the correct code. P v S (T·U) P U

Codes


Valid

Invalid

True

False

71 Read carefully argument I and II the mark the correct code
Argument I If there is smoke then there is fire. There is no smoke. Therefore there is no fire.
Argument II :Death is the end of life. The end of life is perfection. Therefore death is perfection.

Codes


Argument I has the fallacy of denying the antecedent and II is a valid argument.

I is valid and II has fallacy of excluded middle.

Both I and II are valid arguments.

Argument I has fallacy of denying the antecedent and II has fallacy of four terms.

72 Which one of the following is not a valid mood of first figure

Barbara

Darii

Celarent

Baroco

73 Match List I with List II and mark the correct code as given below

List I List II

p.q Modus Ponens
p>q Constructive Dilemma p
p Simplification v q
Addition p v r v s

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74 Mark the code which does not show a rule of inference

Hypothetical syllogism

Disjunctive syllogism

Categorical syllogism

Simplification

75 Which pair supports Ecofeminism

Vandana Shiva and Maria Mies

Vandana Shiva and Simon De Beauvoir

Maria Mies and Simon De Beauvoir

Simon De Beauvoir and Mahasheveta Devi