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