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Subject | philosophy | |
Paper | paper 2 | |
Exam / Course | ugc net national eligibility test | |
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Exam Date | December, 2015 | |
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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
Codes
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
Codes
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
(iii)
(iii)
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
Codes
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
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
Codes
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
Codes
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
(iii)
(iii)
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
Codes
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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