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Methodology of Philosophy | Set 1

1. ------------------- is a vital instrument for the growth and development of knowledge.

Correct : D. methodology

2. Our beliefs may be substantiated by some objective standards and they should not be guided solely by subjective considerations. This shows the necessity of --------------------

Correct : C. methods

3. The study of methods is called

Correct : C. methodology

4. Procedures and techniques by which the establishment of the validity of previous knowledge and the attainment of new knowledge is possible, is called

Correct : C. methodology

5. Procedures and techniques which have been devised to aid us in extending our knowledge is called

Correct : D. methodology

6. ----------------is the author of the book An Essay on Philosophical Method

Correct : C. collingwood

7. The source of the methodology of arts was

Correct : A. socrates

8. The Problem of Knowledge was written by

Correct : C. a.j.ayer

9. “It is by it’s methods rather than it’s subject matter that philosophy is to be distinguished from other arts or sciences”. This is a statement by

Correct : D. a.j.ayer

10. With the help of method we come to a ---------------.

Correct : A. theory

11. A theory is a conclusion, whereas a method is a------------------.

Correct : B. procedure

12. Style means

Correct : A. a manner of expression characteristic of a particular philosopher or individual.

13. Philosophical method is

Correct : A. demonstrative

14. For idealists, method is

Correct : C. a set of principles which is arbitrarily established by human reason for convenience in knowing.

15. The Marxists present method as

Correct : B. a procedure used for studying the phenomena of the objective world.

16. Philosophical methods are

Correct : C. methods of rational inquiry

17. ------------------take “philosophical method as the method of determining the meaning of ideas and of clarifying them”.

Correct : D. pragmatists

18. According to pragmatists, the two ends of philosophical method are,

Correct : B. first, determination of meaning and second, verification of ideas

19. Philosophical method ‘as a method of settling philosophical disputes‘ is the view of

Correct : B. william james

20. Science is rational, philosophy is

Correct : A. more rational, speculative also

21. Socrates and Plato took philosophical method as a method of

Correct : D. knowing

22. According to Aristotle, the aim of philosophical method is

Correct : C. the attainment of truth

23. With the help of method we come to a

Correct : B. theory

24. A theory is a -----------------, whereas a method is a procedure or way.

Correct : A. conclusion

25. Manner of thinking or procedure of thinking over some problem is called

Correct : C. style

26. Chintana prakriya means

Correct : A. a manner of thinking or procedure of thinking over some problem

27. Style means

Correct : D. a manner of expression characteristic of a particular philosopher or individual

28. An argument expressed or claimed to be expressible in the form of two propositions called the premises , containing a common or middle term , with a third proposition called the conclusion resulting necessarily from the other two, is called

Correct : C. syllogism

29. According to Wittgenstein, syllogism is

Correct : B. a demonstrative method

30. Art is concerned with practice, while method is a process of

Correct : D. thinking

31. A person’s style of doing is called

Correct : D. manner

32. -----------------is a mode of action

Correct : B. procedure

33. Logico-mathematical method is called

Correct : B. pure philosophical method

34. ---------------------is an example of pure philosophical method

Correct : D. phenomenological

35. “A philosophical system claims uniformity of method, but a truly philosophical spirit will rather aim at flexibility”. This statement is by

Correct : C. collingwood

36. --------------considered as the starting points of mathematical method.

Correct : B. axioms

37. Spinoza’s method is known as

Correct : D. geometrical

38. What is the name of book in which Descartes stated his four rules of method?

Correct : A. discourse on the method

39. Descartes considered -----------and -----------as the two criteria of true knowledge.

Correct : B. clearness and distinctiveness

40. Descartes himself refuted ------------- as a philosophical method.

Correct : C. syllogism

41. Immanuel Kant’s method is known as

Correct : A. transcendental

42. The term ‘a priori’ means

Correct : D. before experience

43. “---------------------------------” constitutes a definite and self-evident starting point for the Cartesian philosophy.

Correct : C. cogito ergo sum

44. Descartes says that when deduction is ’complex and involved’ it may be termed -------

Correct : A. enumeration

45. According to Kant dogmatism has two forms viz. rationalism and --------------.

Correct : B. empiricism

46. To attain certainty and clarity in philosophy many philosophers recommended

Correct : A. mathematical method

47. The method which employs a long series of definitions, postulates, axioms, theorems and problems.

Correct : B. synthetic method

48. In the mathematical method we deduce other principles and propositions from --------

Correct : D. axioms

49. Mathematics is a body of certain and-------------------------------- truths.

Correct : A. self-evident

50. Who gave primacy to intuition?

Correct : D. descartes

51. Who wrote ‘The Rules for the Direction of Mind’?

Correct : D. descartes

52. The doubt of Descartes should not be confused with ---------------------------------.

Correct : C. scepticism

53. Logical doubt of Descartes depends on

Correct : C. will

54. The thing which will resist the doubt will constitute an ------------------------------- certainty.

Correct : B. indubitable

55. Hume says that all knowledge derived from

Correct : D. impressions

56. Berkeley argues that all knowledge derived from

Correct : B. ideas

57. Kant observed that, contradictory dogmatic philosophies inevitably lead to

Correct : C. scepticism

58. Kant believed that Hume’s -------------------------------undermined the sciences.

Correct : C. scepticism

59. Hobbs and Descartes professed----------------------------------------method

Correct : B. mathematical

60. Bacon accepted the ------------- method of natural sciences.

Correct : C. inductive

61. Kant called his critical method by the name of ---------------------------method also

Correct : A. transcendental

62. Kant writes metaphorically--- ----------------------is a resting place for reason.

Correct : C. scepticism

63. According to Kant scepticism cannot be a ---------------------------method of philosophy.

Correct : B. rational

64. With the help of his Transcendental method Kant distinguished between the ‘matter’ and the -----------------------------------------------------------forms of knowledge.

Correct : C. a priori

65. Kant’s method guided the reason to

Correct : D. self contemplation

66. Some thinkers observe that Kant’s ‘Transcendental method’ lacks intellectual dynamism and it holds only

Correct : A. psychological dynamism

67. Many scholars observe ----------------------------------is a result of the application of Kant’s critical method.

Correct : B. agnosticism

68. Space and time, and the categories of understanding are treated as the-------------------- of knowledge by Kant

Correct : A. presuppositions

69. For Kant the terms ‘a priori’ and --------------------have one and the same meaning.

Correct : C. non-empirical

70. Kant’s claim to have devised a new technique of philosophical inquiry which is

Correct : C. implicit

71. Who used dialectics as an instrument for winning disputes?

Correct : A. sophist

72. The first to introduce the method of dialectics is:

Correct : C. sophists

73. The Greek word ‘dialektos’ means:

Correct : A. conversation

74. The conversational method of Socrates took the form of .......

Correct : C. dialectic

75. The two operative terms for the possibility and development of ideas under the method of dialogue.

Correct : A. consensus and contradiction

76. Plato wrote the book:

Correct : A. the republic

77. The work ‘Theatetus’ is attributed to:

Correct : B. plato

78. The problem of universals was first introduced into philosophy by

Correct : C. plato

79. In the ........ Plato seeks the definition of Courage

Correct : D. laches

80. Who takes dialectics as an argumentative process?

Correct : C. aristotle

81. Opposition is the basis of ........ Method

Correct : C. dialectic

82. For -------everything was continually changing into its opposite.

Correct : B. heraclitus

83. Which among the following is the feature of dialectics?

Correct : D. all of the above

84. A method for understanding reality by the triadic movement from thesis to antithesis to synthesis

Correct : C. dialectical

85. Whose method is known as art of intellectual midwifery?

Correct : A. socrates

86. To bring to light on knowledge which the mind already possesses is known as:

Correct : A. intellectual midwifery

87. Which are the characteristics of Socratic dialectic?

Correct : D. all of the above

88. Whose method is the synthesis of opposites?

Correct : B. hegel

89. Who is the author of the book Critique of Pure Reason?

Correct : D. immanuel kant

90. Who draws limits to the extent of knowledge?

Correct : A. kant

91. For-----, dialectic is the process of the logical development of thought and reality through thesis and antithesis into a synthesis.

Correct : B. hegel

92. There is the final movement in which the spirit reduces Nature to the inwardness, which the spirit itself is. Only at this stage the spirit rises to self consciousness in man. According to Hegel spirit rises to self consciousness in man. According to Hegel this stage is -----

Correct : C. synthesis

93. The key motion of Hegel is ------

Correct : C. geist

94. For Hegel, Idea means

Correct : B. concrete universal

95. According to the Absolute Idealism of Hegel.

Correct : A. there is only one reality

96. ------, in Hegel’s dialectic, means to resolve into a higher unity or to bring into the wholeness that which is fragmentary.

Correct : A. sublation

97. ..... is the author of an all-embracing system of dialectical idealism

Correct : A. hegel

98. According to Hegel, there are three stages in the logical development of spirit: subjective mind, objective mind and ......

Correct : C. absolute spirit

99. ---- method, which is the proper method of philosophy, according to Hegel, is determined by the subject matter of philosophy itself.

Correct : C. the dialectical

100. According to ......., real is rational and rational is real

Correct : D. hegel