1. The asamavayikara a of an earthen pot according to the Vaise ikas is

Earth itself

Pot itself

Parts of the pot

The conjunction of the parts of the pot


2. Parvata vahniman dhumat

What type of hetvabhasa is committed by the above anumana

Asadharana Savyabhicara

Anupasamhari

Badhita

Vyapytvasiddha



3. According to which school a thing may be and not' at the same time

Carvaka

Vedanta

Jaina

Bauddha



4. According to Carvakas anumana cannot be a pramana because

It cannot prove God.

It is not infallible.

Its vyapti cannot be established.

It is self-contradictory.



5. In Vedic tradition yajña is performed under the direction of

Yajmana

Rtvika

Grhakarta

Isvara

6. Select the code that states the correct sequence

Brahmana, Samhita, Aranyaka, Upanisad


Upanisad, Samhita, Aranyaka, Brahmana


Samhita, Brahmana, Aranyaka, Upanisad


Samhita, Upanisad, Brahmana, Aranyaka


7. Which of the following school holds that the magnitude of the body (dehaporimana) is the magnitude of the atma


Carvaka

Vaise ika

Yoga

Jaina


8. Given below one Assertion and a Reason Consider them in the light of Nyaya Philosophy and select the correct code given below

Assertion Laksana cannot be a Vrtti .

Reason Sakti is a Vrtti and Sakti is not Laksana.

Codes

and both are true and is the correct explanation of

and both are true and is not the correct explanation of

is true, but is false.

is false and is true.


9. can be repaid by

Brahmacarya

Performing yajña

Giving birth to a son

Helping the poor


10. Given below one Assertion and one Reason Consider them in the light of Nyaya­Vaise ika Philosophy and select the correct code from given below

Assertion The liberated soul must be Jada (matter).

Reason The liberated soul looses even its consciousness.

Codes

and both are true and provides the correct explanation of


and both are true and does not provide correct explanation of


is true and is false.


is false and is true.


11. Which one among the following is the cause of the magnitude (Parim a of trasarenu according to the Vaisesikas


Number of the Paramanus


Number of the dryanukas


Number of the trasarenus


Trasarenu themselves


12. Match the List I with List II and select the correct code from given below

List I List II

a. Brahmasutras i. Kanada
b. Mimamsasutras ii. Jaimini
c. Vaisesikasutras iii. Patañjali
d. Yogasutras iv. Badarayana

Codes

a b c d

i ii iii iv


i iii ii iv


iv ii i iii


iv i ii iii

13. Who holds the view that 'Religion is acceptance, not tolerance'

Sri Aurobindo

Vivekananda

J. Krishnamurti

Radhakrishnan


14. Who holds the view that world is 'Cradle of Human Spirit'


J. Krishnamurti

K.C. Bhattacharya

Vivekananda

Tagore


15. Which one of the following philosophers propounds that rebirth is essential for individual evolution

Radhakrishnan

Gandhi

Sri Aurobindo

Tagore


16. Which one of the following holds that 'The region of Negation is the region of the Indefinite'


K.C. Bhattacharya

Vivekananda

Tagore

Radhakrishnan


17. Who among the following maintains education I mean an all-round drawing out of the best in child and man body, mind and spirit'


Tagore

Vivekanand

Sri Aurobindo

Gandhi


18. Which one of the following is correct

(Books) (Authors)

Philosophy of Hinduism, On Fear Ambedkar

You are the World, The limits of Thought J. Krishnamurti

Fruit Gathering, Total Freedom Tagore

The Human Cycle, The Recovery of Faith Sri Aurobindo


19. Consider given Assertion and Reason and then mark the correct option as given below

Assertion Sunya in the sense of mere negation is pure nihilism.

Reason Sunya is contradicted by all valid means of knowledge. Codes


and are both true and does not provide correct explanation of


is false and is true and provides correct explanation of


and are both true and provides correct explanation of


is true and is false and provides the incorrect explanation of


20. In Ramanuja-Vedanta all the following propositions are true except


Jiva is in organic relation with Brahman.


Jiva is existentially one with Brahman.


Jiva is the Vise a a of Brahman.


Jiva is entirely dependent on Brahman.


21. "The silver that appears in a shell cannot be unreal because it appears; that silver cannot also be real because it is found to be not there when we see the shell proerly." This is the view of the

(1)Visistadvaitins


(2)Sunyavadins


(3)Samkhyans


(4)Advaitins


22. "Brahman is truly independent among the reals; there is nothing equal or superior to it" this view is upheld by

Samkara


Iswara Krisna


Madhva


Prabhakara

23. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer by using the codes given below

List I List II

i. Samkhya a. Prasthanatraya
ii. Yoga b. Svarga prapti
iii. Purva-Mima sa c. Asa prajñata samadhi
iv. Vedanta d. Puru a-prak ti-viveka jñana

Codes

a b c d

ii i iv iii


iv iii ii i


iii iv i ii


iii iv ii i


24. According to Samkhya-yoga Purusa is

Conscious and active

Conscious and inactive

Unconscious and active

Unconscious and inactive


25. Select the code which presents the Skandhas in correct sequence


Vijñana, rupa, vedana, samjña and samskara


Samjña, vijñana, rupa, vedana, and samskara


Rupa, vedana, samjña, samskara and vijñana


Rupa, samjña, vedana, samskara and vijñana


26. "Forms are not apart from things, but inherent in them; they are not transcendent but immanent" is the view that can be ascribed to which one of the following Greek philosophers

Socrates


Plato


Aristotle


Democritus


27. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion(A) and the other labelled as Reason(R). Considering and in the light of Plato's epistemology. Mark the correct code

Assertion Conceptual knowledge is the only genuine knowledge.

Reason Conceptual knowledge does not presuppose the reality of corresponding ideal or abstract objects.

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.



28. Consider the following statements with reference to St. Anselm and mark the correct code

He attempted to find necessary reasons for the truths of the faith.

believe in order to understand'.

By God we mean 'that than which no greater can be thought'.


Codes

Only is true.

Only and is true.

Only is true.

All and are true.


29. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion and the other labelled as Reason Considering and in the light of Thales. Select the correct code

Assertion Magnet has a soul.

Reason Magnet possesses a power to move other things.

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.


30. Consider the following statements in the light of Heraclitus and mark the correct code

Heraclitus held that the world had always existed and thus rejected cosmogony.
The world and its constituents are in a state of perpetual flux.
He argued that 'The path up is the same as path down'.

Codes

Only is true.


Only and are true.


All and are true.


Only and are true.


31. Consider the following statements in the light of St. Augustine and mark the correct code

Mutability is a mark of every creature.
God is strictly immutable.
Changeable things are not fully but only "partially" real. All creatures are absolutely real.

Codes

Only and are true.


Only and are true.


Only and are true.


Only and are true.



32. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer by using the codes given below

List I List II

i. Locke a. think therefore I
ii. Descartes b. God is immanent in the world
iii. Spinoza c. Pre-established harmony
iv. Leibnitz d. Secondary qualities are subjective

Codes

a b c d

iii ii i iv


ii iii iv i


i iv ii iii


iv i iii ii

33. Consider given Assertion and Reason and then mark the correct option as given below

Assertion According to Leibnitz there is a necessary relation between the gushing wind and the shutting of the door.

Reason There is pre-established harmony.

Codes

is true and is false and provides the incorrect explanation of


Both and are true and provides the correct explanation of


is false and is true and provides the correct explanation of


Both and are true and provides incorrect explanation of


34. All the following statements are inconsistent with Spinoza except


Mind and Body are two unlike substances.


Doubting implies the existence of the doubter.


God is ontologically different from the world.


The world and its changes are but modes of God.


35. 'The entire universe is mirrored in each unit of the substance except for the difference that it is mirrored only slightly differently from unit to unit.' This position is acceptable to

Spinoza


Leibnitz


Descartes


St. Thomas Aquinas


36. G.E. Moore's refutation of idealism is based on which one of the following


Distinction between act of awareness and object of awareness.


Distinction between knower and the act of knowing.


Distinction between mind and matter.


Distinction between sense and reference.


37. Which one of the following statements are true with reference to Russell's "problems of philosophy"

Universals are real entities which exist neither in the mental nor in the physical worlds, and yet have a subsistent or logical status.


Universals are unreal, that exist only in imagination.


Universals are real entities, that exist in both mental and physical worlds.


Universals are real entities that exist only in the mental world.


38. Consider the following statements with reference to logical positivism and mark the correct code

Strong verification requires that to be meaningful a statement should be verifiable or falsifiable by direct confrontation with experience.

Logical positivism employs verifiability as the criterion of meaning.

(iii)Strong verification requires both direct and indirect methods of verifiability.

Codes

Only is true.


Only and are true.


Only is true.


Only and are true.


39. The view that "Happiness does not consist of a preponderance of pleasurable moments which are free from pain but in the possession and creative exercise of power." Can be attributed to which one of the following philosophers


Hegel


Moore


Nietzsche


Heidegger


40. Consider the following statements with reference to pragmatism of C.S. Peirce, and mark the correct code.

Pragmatism is not a method of reflection.

Pragmatism is a method of reflection having for its purpose to render ideas clear.

It is merely a technique for ascertaining the meaning of conceptions.

Codes


Only is true.


Only and are true.


Only is true.


Only and are true.



41. Consider the following statements with reference to Hegel and mark the correct code

The evolution is a logical, not a temporal process.

There must be both unity and opposition in the absolute.

(iii)Being is a rational process, an orderly evolution.

Codes

Only is true.


Only and are true.


Only and are true.


All and are true.


42. Match the List I with List II and select the correct answer by using the codes given below

List I List II

a. Highest certainty; our assent to it is faith. i. Hegel
b. Although all our knowledge begins with experience it does not follow that it arises out of experience . ii. Hume
c. Thought proceeds from the most simple, abstract and empty concepts to the more complex, concrete and richer 'notions'. iii. Kant
d. The mind is a bundle or collection of different perceptions. iv. Locke

Codes

a b c d

iv ii i iii


ii iv iii i


iv i ii iii


iii ii i iv


43. When the mind perceives the agreement or disagreement of two ideas by direct inspection without intervention of any other ideas is known as

Intuitive knowledge


Demonstrative knowledge


Sensitive knowledge


None of the above


44. Which of the following is the Apodictic form of judgement according to Kant


Every effect must have a cause


This may be poison


The substance is either solid or fluid


All of the above


45. Consider given Assertion and Reason and then mark the correct option given below

Assertion For Hume, we have no idea of a substance.

Reason We have no idea of anything but a perception whereas substance is entirely different from a perception.

Codes

Both and are true and provides a correct explanation of


Both and are false and provides an incorrect explanation of


is true and is false and is an incorrect explanation of


is false and is true and is a correct explanation of


46. Consider the following assertions

Agreement or disagreement of ideas is knowledge.
There is distinction between primary and secondary qualities.
Objects are represented through their qualities. Knowledge of the object is pre-established in the mind. Select the correct code in the light of John Locke's philosophy.

Codes


and are true.


and are true.


and are true.


and are true.


47. Consider following assertions

Synthetic Apriori Judgement is the standard of knowledge.

Synthetic Aposteriori Judgement is the standard of knowledge.

Analytic Apriori Judgment is the standard of knowledge.

Analytic Aposteriori Judgement is the standard of knowledge.

Select the correct code in the light of Kant's view-point

Codes

Only is correct.


Only is correct.


Only and are correct.


Only is correct.


48. Consider following assertions If sugar has sweetness today, it does not mean that it will remain sweet tomorrow also because

Sweetness is not inherent in the sugar.
There is only circumstantial relation between sugar and the sweetness.
There is no necessary causal relation between sugar and the sweetness.
There is only conjunction between sugar and the sweetness. Select the correct code in the light of David Hume's view-point

Codes

Only is correct.


Only is correct.


Only and are correct.


Only and are correct.


49. Consider the following assertion To be is to be perceived this view is held by

(i)Locke

(ii)Berkeley

(iii)Locke and Berkeley

(iv)Locke, Berkeley and Hume Select the correct code

Codes

Only is correct.


Only is correct.


Only and are correct.


Only is correct.


50. Match the List I with List II and select the correct answer by using the codes given
below

List I List II

a. I could not have been the cause of my own existence for I have an idea of perfection. i. Hume
b. If a principle can be imprinted on the soul without being known, it is impossible to distinguish between what is nature and what not. ii. Berkeley
c. Mind is incapable of framing abstract ideas. iii. Descartes
d. Objects are not necessarily but the ideas are connected in our mind by association. iv. Locke

Codes

a b c d

ii i iii iv


iv ii i iii


i ii iv iii


iii iv ii i