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I. Logic is concerned with

Perceptual knowledge


Inference


Language


Truth


2. Who has defined Logic as 'the science of
the formal-laws of thought'


Hamilton


Mill


Thomson
Arnold
3. Which one of the following statements is
true?


All valid arguments have true conclusions


All invalid arguments have false conclusions


Some valid arguments have true conclusions


No valid argument has a· fal!ie conclusion


4. Which of the following is accepted in logic?
A false premise cannot imply a

conclusion

Only a true premise can imply a . conclusion


A false premise can imply a conclusion


A true premise cannot imply a conclusion


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5. By the addition of new premises a valid
deductive argument
cannot be made more valid
can be made more valid
can be made less valid
can be made invalid
6. Which one of the following statements is
not correct?
A valid argument with false premises •
does not guarantee truth of its
conclusion
A valid argument with a false
conclusion does not guarantee truth of
its premises
A valid argument with a true
conclusion must have true premises
A valid argument with true premises
must have a true conclusion
7. Traditionally the process of inductive
inference proceeds
From universal to particular
From particular to universal •
From universal to universal
None ofthe 'above
8. The uniformity ofNature means
The laws of nature are similarly
applicable in the similar circumstances
The laws ofnature are accidental
The laws of nature are divine
The laws of nature are logical
(Contd.)

9. Consider the argument: c,dall the attributes P and Q c all have the attribute R Therefore d probably has the
attribute R. Which one of the following statements is true for this argument?

It is a deductive argument .


It is an inductive argument


It is an inductive and analogical


argument It is none ofthe above
10. Which one of the following explains the nature of 'Inductive

It is a leap from unknoWn to known


It is a leap froin known to unknown


It is a leap from unknown to unknown


IUs a leap from known to known


11. Which'one ofthe following is not a criterion for evaluating hypotheses?

Relevance


Testability


Predictive power


Acceptance


12. Which one of the following is the explanation of necessary condition of an event?

It is a circumstance in whose absence the event cannot occur


It is a circumstance inwhose presence the event must occur


Itis a circumstance in whose presence the event cannot occur


It is a circumstance in whose absence the event must occur


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13. A syllogism is invalid if

It has only three tenns


It has a middle tenn


It has two negative premises


It has three propositions


14. Which of the following moods is a valid mood in the second figure ofa syllogism?

AAA


EiO
iAi



Aii


15. The form of "Not everyone worth meeting is worth having as a friend", is

A


0


I


E


16. Which one of the following syllogistic moods is valid in all the four figures

AOO


EiO


Aii


ABE


17. Ifeither prerniseofa valid argument in the fourth figure isnegative, its major premise must be

Universal


Negative


Affirmative


Particular


(Contd.)
18. Consider the Venn Diagram
S
p
M
Which one of the following symbolic arguments does it represent correctly?

PM=O

MS=O
. SP=O



MP

SM
.. sp=o



PM


MS=O
.. SP=O

PM
MS=O·
.. SP

19. The useofiDduetiveprocess does not involve

Classification


Generalisation


Formation of a hypothesis


Non-probability


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20. Methods ofscientific inquiry are Observation only Fonnation ofhypothesis only Verification only All in unison
·21. In inductive logic 'Method ofResidues' is related to Bacon Mill Hume Kant
22. Which one ofthe following methods ofMill is said to be influenced by deduction? Agreement Difference Concomitant Variation Residues
23. Which one ofthe following is a quantitative method·ofinductive inference? Agreement Difference Concomitant Variation Residues
B (Contd.)

24. Which one of the following methods can be schematized as
ABC--xyz
Therefore A and x are causally connected

Method ofAgreement


Method ofConcomitant Variation


Method of Residues



Joint Method of Agreement and 1 Difference
25. Without changing the truth-value, the statement V may be rewritten as













26. Which one of the following is correct transformation of
v v

q).





0 op)v(r·q)


0 q)V (rv Co .



27. Which ofthe following is contradictory







0





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28. Whichone ofthefollowingisknownas 'the paradoxes ofmaterial implication'













29. From which one ofthe following is T v R logically derived

.











30. Given that P is false and Q is true, which one ofthe following expressions is true
-P

P v-Q


-p..j..-Q


P/Q


31. Which one ofthe following implies













32. Which one ofthe following is equivalent to

(pv











(Contd.)
33. Which one ofthe following is the principle of,Idempotence' inalgebra ofclasses?
a=ava
a=avap







34. Whichone ofthefollowingisequivalentto the expression' v IIV'

pvq


pvq




P
p.q
35. Which one ofthe following is false?

aV13=aj3


ap=avj3


1=0


ava=O


36. According to the algebra of classes, the fonn of a valid syllogism which contains only universal propositions is
13y=O; :.ay=O
:.ay=O
:.ay=O
a
37. Which of the following is the correct explanation of Niskama Kanna of the Bhagvad Gita

Renunciation of all duties


Giving up personal obligation


Perfonn action without attachment to its results


Abstination from vicious action


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38. 'Sthita Frajna' in Gita means

Action with sense ofduty


Devotion to God


Unaffected by pleasure and pain


Rationallife


39. 'Kannanyevadhikaraste ma phaleshu
Kadachan' this statement primarilyteaches


the duties ofVarnashrama dharma


Devotion and surrender to God .­


Achievement ofLiberation


Nishkam Karma Yoga


40. The supreme aim of human life according
to Indian ethics is

Dharma
Artha

Kama


Moksa


41. Identify the Purushartha accepted by the
Caravaka
Dharma


Artha


Kama


Moksa


42. According to Bhagvad Gita a morally perfect man is committed to do

All actionS whatever


Only those actions which are unavoidable


Actions which are not promptedby any personal motive


Actions which are known to produce" good results

43. Whichone·ofthefollowingdoesnotbelong to Mahavira's Triratna

Right Faith


Right knowledge


Right conduct


Right recollection


44. Which one of the. following systems includes ahimsa as Mahavrata


Nyaya ... Mimamsa 1 Jain


" (Contd.)

Vedanta
45. Liberation according to Jain philosophy includes

Freedom from life and death


Freedom from karma'


Freedom froin matter


All the above


46. Which one of the following is the ultimate means of liberation in the philosophy of Jainisrn

Astanga Marga


Triratna


Sadhanaehatustaya


Dharma


47. To observe aparigraha is

Sadharana dharma


Varna dharma


Raj dharma


Svadharma


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48. According to Jainism

Birth is the cause of bondage and Samadhi is the cause ofMoksa


Asrava is the cause bondage and Nirjara is the cause of Moksa


Asrava is the cause of bondage and Sambara is the cause ofMokSa


Adhanna is the cause of bondage and dhanna is the cause ofMoksa


49. Anatmavada is the theory of

Carvaka


Jainism


Buddhism


Sarilkhya


.
50. The 'eightfold path is enunciated by

Mahavir


Gautam Buddha


Mahatma Gandhi


All ofthe above


51. What the order of Dukha Samudaya in .the four Noble truths of Buddhism?

First


Second


Third


Fourth


52. Which one ofthe following is not included in the Eightfold path ofBuddhisni

Samyaka Dristi


Samyaka Ajiva


Samyaka Smriti


Samyaka Shodh


(Contd.) .
53.
Which of the following statements presents BlIlIdhist view of causation?

54.
Which of the following is true statement according to Buddhism


An effect is not a new creation
An effect has nothing to do.with its
cause
A cause being there, the effect arises,
depending upon it
An effect is an appearance of cause

.

There is a perinanent soul


Soul is the coordination of the sense organs


Soul is pure consciousness and is the basis of all knowledge


There is no immutable soul besides the flow of consciousness


55. The theory of error ofNyaya is

Akhyativada


Anyatha khyativada


Anirvachaniya khyativada


Viparita khyativada


56. Which of the following is not correctly matched

Akhyativada -Prabhakara


Anyatha khyativada -Nyaya


Viparita khyativada -Kumarila


Asatkhyativada -Samkaracharya


57. In a case of illusion snake is perceived in place of rope. According to Anirvacaniya khyati

both snake and rope are real


rope is real, snake is unreaJ


rope is unreal, snake is real


rope is real llIId snake is neither real nor unreal


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64. Rights and duties are

enforced by law


eternal in nature


correlative


separate


65. The application of ethical $tan4ards to particular concrete cases is called
casuistry
causality ontology

organicity
"
66. Theories that place emphasis on the nature ofthe act .are called

teleological


axiological


epistemological


deontological


67. 'The hope of happiness first begins with religion", Kant wrote in his book

Critique ofPure Reason


Critique ofPractical Reason


The Common Faith


Proslogion



68. Whose plea is that 'the use of the word "ought" ought to be banished from the vocabulary ofmorals'

J. Bentham


J.S. Mill


C.L. Stevenson


Sidgwick


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69. J.S. Mill's Altruism may be called as

Gross utilitarianism


Refined utilitarianism


Evolutionaryhedonism


Fonnalism


70. Ethical Hedonism identifies value with

Custom


Desire


Pleasure


Will


71. Kant's Rigorism is akin to

Intuitionism


Emotivism
(c):Prescriptivism



Hedonism


72. The fallacy involved in the inference that 'the general happiness is a good to the· aggregate ofall persons", is

. The fallacy ofcomposition


Disjunctive


The naturalisticfallacy


Analogy


73. Morality consists

in gratification ofthe self


in an attitude ofthe will


in the acquisition ofa skill


in the production of a result


74. ispresupposed bymoralobligation.

Categorical imperative


Pleasure


Freedom


Utility


(Contd.)
75. Who has made Free-will a deduction from Moral Law?

Hume


a.E. Moore


R.M. Hare


Immlinuel Kant


76. Volitions never exist independently of

motives


attitude


passion


love and pity


77. For whom the selfis nothing but a '.bundle of sense experiences'

Kant


DavidHume


Epicurus


Aristotle


78. Thequestion oftheFreedom oftheWill has been stimulated to have a clear view of

human resurrection


human responsibility


Divine creation


men's external conditions


79. Verification principle rests upon

ontological argument


axiological argument


empirical knowledge


intuitive knowledge


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80. 'All ethical judgements are emotional statements', according to

Aristippus


A.l. Ayer


I.S. Mill


T.H. Green


81. The absoluteness ofmoral judgement denied by

Idealists


Existentialists


Pragmatists


Logical Positivists


82..The first systematic treatment of the language ofethics was done by

Stevenson


Kant


Bentham


Nietzsche


83. 'Freedom and Reason' was written by

G.E. Moore


AJ. Ayer


R.M. Hare


Kant


84. Who seeks a logical grounding for morality in human wants

Descriptivist


Emotivist


Hedonist


Evolutionist

85. "The state represents violence in a concentrated and organised fonn," says

Marx


Plato


Gandhi


Ambedkar


86. Gandhi took the position of
a subjective idealist


an objective idealist I a phenomenologist


B (Contd.)
a naturalist
87. Satyagraha means

socia-political action


truth-force


primordial force


eternal force


88. Non-violence is the gospel of

conscious suffering


unconscious suffering


win to live


."
will to power
89. Who justifies faith in God's existence on the basis ofthe moral law

Vedantins


Nyaya


Jeremy Bentham


Gandhi


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90. Which formula helps Gandhi to accommodate his basic convictions within the framework of an integrated view of life?

Truth is God


Trusteeship


Sat, Chit, Ananda


Sarvodaya


91. According to Locke, solidity, shape,.motion and rest are

the primary qualities ofan object


the secondary qualities ofan object


projection ofmind over the object


sometimes primary and at other times secondary qualities of an object


92. "There are material objects; but these are not made out of what the philosophers call 'material substance' ". This is the· view of

Berkeley


Descartes


Hegel


Locke


93. According to Aristotle substance is

aunity ofmatterandmind


aunitYofmatterand God


a unity of imaginable and actual


form alone


94. Which one of the following, accordingto Vaisesika is not accepted as a padartha? .

guna


karma


samanya


sakti


(Contd.)
95. SulJstanoe, according 10 Jaius posNSscs

essential characters alone


accidental characters alone


both essential and accidental cIwacters


neither essential nor ac:cidental characters


96. According to Hume, all our reasonings concerning matters offact are based on

contiguity in time


caueandeffect


space


ilTll'=sions and ideas


97. Who Sl1J'POl'lS the view that the world is a referent ofword

Buddhists


Jainas


Mimamsakas


Vaisesikas


98. Buddhists uphold that perception is the cognitiOft of
Samanya laksana

ksana


Svalaksana


skandhas


99. AccordiDtl: to PIaW, the "Ideas" Of "Forms"

are produced by our minds


existasparts ofthingsoftheworld


exist in a separate world


are produced by sense experience


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100. "Just as there is already a final fonn of the table in the mind of the carpenter even before he makes it, there is also a final fonn ofa fully grown tree in its seed." This would be the view of

Socrates


Plato


Aristotle


Pannenides


101. According to Aristotle Universals exist

in particulars and substance


independent of particulars and
substances



in particulars and adjectival in nature


independent of particulars and
adjectival in nature



102. "All ideas are perfectly particular, and only become general in the use we make ofthem" was the view of

Descartes


Locke


Hume


.
Berkeley
103. In Indian philosophy, the term "pramaaa" stands for

making a statement00oath inthe name
of God



aproof


a means ofknowledge


a means of valid knowledge


(Contd.)
104. Which one of the following is aparma (invalid cognition)

Pratyaksa


Upmiti


Anumiti


Sansay


105. The pramana ofthe aptos is callC!i

pratyaksa


subhasita


•

anumana


sabda


106. According to Hume, the contrary of every matter·'offact is possible because

it can never imply a contradiction


the contrary is .never a contradictory


matters of fact are merely historically true


we do imagine eontrary-to-faet situations


107. According to Carvakas anumana is not. prqmana because the knowledge of the following is not possible

hetu


drstantai


vyapti·


paksadharmata


108. Descartes adopts as a general rule the principle that

all out ideas are copied from our impressions


all things that we conceive very clearly and distinctly are true


all images ofthings maybe referred to the idea of God


the mind's highest good is the knowledge of God


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109. Themaxirn, "truth of a statement can be defined· in tenits of the utility of accepting it" represents

Correspondence theory of truth


Coherence theory of truth


Pragmatic theory oftruth


Value theory of truth


llO. Semantic theory of truth holds that a .proposition is true if it

pictures the corresponding facts


is useful


mirrors reality


is logically deducible from other proposition or propositions


111. Pierce understands pragmatism as

cash-value


a theory ofmeaning


warranted assertability


a theory oftruth


1I2. Which one of the following is regarded as the criterion of truth by Descartes

fruitful activity


clarity and distinctness


correspondence


consistency and coherence


113. "s is true if and onlyif S exists" represents

correspondence theory of truth


coherence theory of truth


pragmatic theory of truth


redundancytheory oftruth


(Conld.)
.
114. Thestatement,''Thetruth oflII1..ideaisnota stagnant property inherent in it. Truth happens to an idea" is made by

. John Locke


William James


Rene Descartes


Immanuel Kant


115. "There is a real distiDction bet.w«'IIlMiDd and Matter because they p088ClIIS different properties." This is the view of

Descartes


Spinoza


Leibniz


Locke


116. Which one of the following is not related with Descartes
cogito ergo sum

interactionisrn


mind-body duality


parallelism


II? Spinoza resolves the mind-body problem by

reducing mind to body


reducing body to mind


combining mind and body


treating mind and body as two parallel aspects


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118. Cartesian solution of the mind-body -problem is .
parallelism
neutralmonism
interactionism
occasionalism
119. The doctrine of pre-established harmony means that the
God has created the world
World has evolved on its own
God created order in the world
World exists on its own accord
120. According to epiphenomenalism
consciousness exists and produces effects on the physical world
consciousness does not exist but produce effects on the physical world
consciousness exists and produces no effect on the physical world I
consciousness neither exists nor _produces an effect on the physical world

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