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Subject philosophy
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Question Paper

1 lta in its moral sense may be equated with

Artha

Moka

Satya

Ni,edha

2 Which of the following is indicative of Arthibhavanap?

ThepYajpDhatu

Linga

Nipata

Akhyata

3 Which of the following theory accepts Khyatipas Smrtipramo,ap?

AsatpKhyati

Akhyati

AnirvacaniyapKhyati

SatpKhyati

4 The kind of knowledge that reveals the mental states of others is known in Jaina Philosophy as

Avadhi

Kevala

Mati

Mana]paryaya

5 According to the Naiyayikas we can perceive all cases of smoke only by

Yogajappratya,atti

Samanyalak,aJappratya,atti

Jfanalak,aJappratya,atti

Samavayapsannikar,a

6 By what type of perception, according to Nyaya one can perceive the objects of past, present and future

Samanyalak,aJa

Yogaja

SravaJa

Jfanalak,aJa

7 'Fire is cold because it is a substance'. What type of fallacy is committed by the above argument according to the Nya ya

Viruddha

Asiddha

Ba dha

Satpratipak,a

8 Match Set I with Set II and select the code which is correctly matched
Set Set -II
Pra ga bha va Nya ya
Prama Jabha va Mimarsa
Pra jfa Vaise.ika
Prama nasamplava Veda nta
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9 In the context of Abha va, what does 'Jiala'pin the statement 'JalepGandhopNa sti' stands for

Pratiyogi

Anuyogi

Anuyogita

Pratiyogita vachedakdharma

10 'Aka satva' inneres in Aka sapas

GuJap-pGuJipbha va

Avayavap-pAvayavipbha va

Ja tip-pVyaktipbha va

Vise,ap-pNityadravyapbha va

11 total energy remains the same while the world is constantly evolving, cause and effect are only more or less evolved forms of the same ultimate energy'' is the view upheld by

Veda nta

Sa mkhya

Nya ya

Buddhism

12 According to Ca rva ka the so called self is nothing but the

Body itself

Consciousness itself

Body with Consciousness

Body without Consciousness

13 What type of Ka raJapof Jfa napthe self is according to the Nya ya

Samava yi

Asamava yi

Nimitta

Upa da na

14 'The hill is fiery because it possesses blue smoke'. This inference according to Nya ya commits the fallacy of

Anaika ntika

Asraya siddha

Vya pyatva siddha

Ba dhita

15 The status of Jagat according to Sarkara is

Sat

Asat

Sadasadvilak,aJa

Sada sat

16 lsvarapaccording to Ra ma nuja is

Only Nimittaka raJapof the world.

Only Upa da naka raJapof the world.

Abhinnanimittopa da napka raJapof the world

Aka rala

17 Madhva's interpretation of the maha va kya 'ahambrahma smi' means

Ta da tmyapof Jivapand Brahman

Sa drsyapof Jivapand Brahman

Jivapas Vise,aJapof Brahman

Praka rap-pPraka ripof Jivapand Brahman

18 Match List I with List II and choose the correct answer with the help of codes given below
List List -II
Vidya ralya Tattvapraka sika
Sriniwa s Veda ntapa rija ta
J ayatirtha Pafcadasi
Nirba rka Yatindramatadipika
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19 Which one of the following is not accepted by Ambedkar

Liberty, Equality, Fraternity

Education, Organisation, Agitation

Caste, Varla, Karma

Buddha, Dhamma, Sangha

20 Which one of the following is admitted by Tagore to be the essential aspect of human being

Physical and Mental

Vital and Mental

Physical and Spiritual

Mental and Spiritual

21 Match List I with List II and choose the correct answer with the help of codes given below
List List -II
Gandhi Life Ahead
Tagore The Recovery of Faith
Radhakrishnan Crisis in Civilization
J. Krishnamurti The Art of Living
Codes

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22 What is the correct sequence of the following in the evolutionary process, according to Sri Aurobindo

Overmind, Higher mind, Illumined mind, Intuitive mind

Higher mind, Illumined mind, Intuitive mind, Overmind

Illumined mind, Higher mind, Intuitive mind, Overmind

Intuitive mind, Higher mind, Illumined mind, Overmind

23 The creation according to the Vaise.ikas starts with the conjunction of atoms by

The svabha vapof the atoms

The will of God

Productive mechanism

Accident

24 Pratityasamutpa dapin Buddhist Philosophy means

The effect pre exists in its cause

The existence of everything is momentary

The existence of everything is conditional

Whatever is, is eternal

25 Which one among the following according to the Sa rkhya cannot be the reason for the existence of Prakrti

Bheda na mpparima Ja t

Samanvaya t

Bhoktrbha va t

Ka raJa-ka ryapvibha ga t

26 Consider the following statements in the light of philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas and mark the correct code
Philosophy passes from facts to God and theology from God to facts.
He made a distinction between reason and faith and argued that matters of faith such as revealed truths are beyond reason, but not contrary to reason.
Faith is a matter of will and the will commands acceptance.
Codes

Only is true

Only is true

Only and are true

and are true

27 Match List I with List II and choose the correct answer with the help of code given below
List List -II
Protagoras Whatever is we cannot know not'
Gorgias Man is the measure of all things
Thrasymachus Nothing exists, even if it exists it cannot be known
Parmenides Justice is the interest of the strong
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28 Which one of the following philosophers of Medieval period stated ''Understand in order that you may believe, believe in order that you may understand. Some-things we do not believe unless we understand them; others we do not understand unless we believe.''

St. Anselm

St. Aquinas

St. Augustine

William Occam

29 Consider the following statements in the light of Pythagoras and mark the correct code
Pythagoreans believed in the Idea of eternal recurrence.
Pythagoreans held that the soul was immortal and it undergoes a sequence of re-birth.
Pythagoreans rejected the view that the process of the world is endless and unchanging.
Codes

Only is true

Only is true

Only and are true

Only and are true

30 Choose the correct order from lowest to the highest with reference to Plato's theory of knowledge.

Knowledge derived from senses, conjectural knowledge, discursive intellect, rational insight.

Conjectural knowledge, knowledge derived from senses, discursive intellect, rational insight.

Knowledge derived from senses, conjectural knowledge, rational insight, discursive intellect.

Discursive intellect, conjectural knowledge, knowledge derived from senses, rational insight.

31 Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion and the other labelled as Reason
Considering and in the light of Aristotelian Theory of Categories mark the correct code.
Assertion Substance is pre-eminent among categories.
Reason Substance is that which is predicable of a subject and present in a subject.
Codes

Both and are true and is the correct explanation of

Both and are true, but is not the correct explanation of

is true but is false.

is false but is true.

32 The Doctrine of 'innate ideas' is acceptable to

Descartes and Spinoza

Descartes and Berkeley

Descartes and Hume

Locke and Fitche

33 'Ontological Argument' in favour of the existence of God was popularized by

Descartes

Descartes and St. Anselm

Hume

Berkeley

34 Which one of the following correctly depicts Locke's conception of

Whatsoever the mind indirectly apprehends; which is the immediate object of perception, thought or understanding.

Whatsoever the mind directly apprehends; which is the immediate object of perception, thought or understanding.

Whatsoever the mind indirectly apprehends; which is the mediate object of perception, thought or understanding.

Whatsoever the mind directly apprehends; which is the mediate object of perception, thought or understanding.

35 Which one of the following modern philosophers conceptualised ''philosophy as a whole is like a tree whose roots are metaphysics, whose trunk is physics and whose branches, which issue from this trunk, are all the other sciences''

Spinoza

Berkeley

Descartes

Leibnitz

36 Consider the following statements in the light of Spinozas' theory of knowledge and mark the correct code.
Obscure and inadequate ideas have their source in sensation and the imagination.
Reason comprehends the Universal essences of things and understands these in their relation to God.
Intuitive knowledge advances from an adequate idea of the objective essence of certain attributes of God to the adequate essence of things.

Codes

Only and are true

Only and are true

Only is true

and are true

37 Which one of the following statements is true with reference to the doctrine of Force of Leibnitz

Force persists when motion ceases, as it is the ground of motion.

Extension is the essential attribute of body.

There is no substance that is an expression of force.

What is active is Unreal.

38 Which one of the following statements is true with reference to Berkeley

Berkeley makes use of the basal empiricism of Locke to establish idealism and thereby endorses materialism and atheism.

Berkeley makes use of the basal empiricism of Locke to establish idealism and thereby refutes materialism and atheism.

Mind has the capacity to frame abstract ideas.

Existence of an object does not depend on being perceived or known by the mind.

39 The so called relation between cause and effect according to Hume is

inferred prior to experience

based on observation and experience

effect is immanent in the cause

both are necessarily connected

40 Antinomy of Pure Reason is dealt with by Kant in his doctrine of

Transcendental Theology

Transcendental Cosmology

Transcendental Psychology

All the above

41 'Elementary propositions depict the picture of Reality' is formulated by

Moore

Russell

Wittgenstein

Husserl

42 Match the List I with List II and choose the correct answer from the code given hereunder
List List -II
Husserl Verification theory
A.J. Yer Category mistake
William James Epoche
G. Ryle Pragmatic theory
Codes









43 Which of the following book is authored by Heidegger

Lebenswelt

BeingpandpTime

Pragmatism

Phenomenology

44 Logical positivism rejects the metaphysics on the following grounds

Metaphysical questions are beyond the limit of the categories of Human understanding.

Metaphysical questions are doubtful.

Metaphysical questions are non-sensical as they are non-verifiable.

Metaphysical questions are beyond space and time.

45 According to G. Ryle which one of the following is correct

All the physical events are reducible to the mental events.

All the mental events are reducible to the physical events.

Both kinds of events are inter reducible to each other.

None of the above

46 Moore's atomistic analysis is supposed to be the reaction against

Kantian dichotomy between Epistemology and Ontology.

Hegelian identity between thought and being.

Bradleian Absolutism.

All the above.

47 Consider the Assertion and Reason and mark the correct option in the light of Kant's view of knowledge.
Assertion Universality, Necessity and Novelty are the criteria of knowledge.
Reason Synthetic a priori judgement fulfils all the required criteria of knowledge.
Codes

and both are true and is the correct explanation of

and both are false and does not provide the correct explanation of

is true and is false and does not provide correct explanation of

is false and is true, and does not provide the correct explanation of

48 Which one of the following is a correct sequence of the existential structures according to Heidegger

Existenz, Fallenness, Facticity

Existenz, Facticity, Fallenness

Facticity, Fallenness, Existenz

Fallenness, Facticity, Existenz

49 Husserl has borrowed the concept of intentionality from the following philosophers

Kant

Hegel

Brentano

Descartes

50 Consider the Assertion and Reason and mark the correct option in the light of Wittgenstein's views
Assertion Every proposition has a clear and definite sense.
Reason Propositions of everyday life contain complex expressions which are logically proper names.
Codes

and both are true and is the correct explanation of

and both are false and is not the correct explanation of

is true and is false and is not the correct explanation of

is false and is true and is not the correct explanation of


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