1. Who introduced triad of thesis, antithesis and synthesis into German philosophy for
the first time?
Correct : D. fichte
2. Who criticizes the Hegelian concept of dialectical triad and says that dialectic does
not necessarily involve the identity of opposites?
Correct : A. bradley
3. The book Phenomenology of Spirit is authored by:
Correct : C. hegel
4. Marx discovered the rational kernel with Hegel’s mystical shell by turning it right
side up and placed it, on a ----- foundation.
Correct : B. materialistic
5. The book ‘Poverty of Philosophy is written by:
Correct : A. marx
6. Marx method of dialectics is known as
Correct : B. materialistic
7. For-----, the dialectical movement in thought is derived from the actual movement of
the real world.
Correct : C. marx
8. Any monistic metaphysical theory which holds that ultimate reality is matter and
that all seemingly nonmaterial things such as minds and thoughts are reducible to the motions of particles of matter.
Correct : C. materialism
9. -----------is the basis of Marxian dialectics
Correct : A. negation
10. How many triads in Marxian dialectics
Correct : B. one
11. Who recognizes the significance of identity in every moment of contradiction?
Correct : A. hegel
12. -------- claims that the knowing subject or self is ultimate reality.
Correct : A. subjective idealism
13. According to Russell---- is an immediate, specific content of sensation
Correct : A. sense data
14. Vicious Circle Principle is related to -----
Correct : C. russell
15. Who wrote A History of Western Philosophy?
Correct : A. russell
16. In 1950 --------- received the Nobel Prize for Literature
Correct : C. russell
17. Russell who belonged to --------society
Correct : C. fabian
18. Russell was against the---------dominant in England
Correct : B. absolute idealism
19. The technique of reduction of Mathematics to logic was first by---------
Correct : A. russell
20. Principia Mathematica is the work of -------
Correct : D. russell and whitehead
21. Logical Atomism is the philosophy of -------
Correct : B. russell
22. Who visited Russia and expressed his disappointment with the form of Socialism
practiced there?
Correct : A. russell
23. Who was the exponent of set theory?
Correct : A. russell
24. Russell is an -----Philosopher
Correct : C. empiricist
25. On Denoting is the work of --------
Correct : B. russell
26. Which of the following is related to Russell’s Paradox?
Correct : D. theory of types
27. The early period of wittgenstein is related to -------
Correct : A. tractatus
28. Philosophical Investigation is the work of -----
Correct : D. wittgenstein
29. Wittgenstein says that language is a ---
Correct : B. picture of reality
30. Who draws the difference between showing and saying?
Correct : C. wittgenstein
31. The philosophy of language game is found in ------
Correct : B. philosophical investigation
32. Correspondence theory of truth is developed by
Correct : C. wittgenstein
33. Who among the following included in analytical philosophy?
Correct : A. wittgenstein
34. Wittgenstein was associated with -----
Correct : B. vienna circle
35. Who wrote Blue and Brown Notebooks?
Correct : B. wittgenstein
36. Wittgenstein said that world consist of ------
Correct : A. facts
37. Wittgenstein’s logical construction of philosophical system has a purpose to find out
the limits of world, thought and --
Correct : D. language
38. Who said that don’t ask for the meaning but says meaning as use?
Correct : C. wittgenstein
39. Logical Positivists were influenced by --------
Correct : A. wittgenstein
40. According to Wittgenstein, language has an isomorphic relation to ----
Correct : C. world
41. According to Wittgenstein, reporting events is an example of -----
Correct : D. language game
42. ------- who inspired the so-called Cambridge School of Analysis
Correct : A. russelll
43. Who is Wittgenstein’s mentor?
Correct : C. russell
44. “Pragmatism is nothing new: but it is a new name for some old way of thinking”
who stated this?
Correct : A. william james
45. Who was considered as a medieval pragmatist thinker?
Correct : C. augustine
46. Who was considered as the Precusor of Pragmatism
Correct : B. immanuel kant
47. Who defined Pragmatism as “the attitude of looking away from first things,
principles, ‘categories,’ supposed necessities; and of looking towards last things, fruits, consequences, facts.”?
Correct : A. william james
48. Descartes was a ………thinker
Correct : D. rationalist
49. Kant ‘s concept can be stated as
Correct : D. critical idealism
50. Who stated “Man is the measure of all things.”
Correct : C. protagoras
51. Who was convinced about the deductive, intuitive and primitive empirical
approaches to philosophy?
Correct : D. francis bacon
52. Who acknowledged the major Kantian insight of the importance of mind as an
active agent in the interpretation of experience
Correct : D. pragmatists
53. Which method accepted that Truth is a belief evolved through the test of
experience?
Correct : D. pragmatism
54. Which American mathematician philosopher laid down the foundation of
pragmatism?
Correct : C. c s pierce
55. Which maxim states ‘a rule for clarifying the contents of hypotheses by tracing their
practical consequences’?
Correct : A. pragmatist
56. Who published the article “How To Make Our Ideas Clear.”?
Correct : A. pierce
57. Who wished to establish philosophy on a scientific basis and to treat theories as
working hypotheses?
Correct : B. pierce
58. Who accepts only the “general method of science”, a method that employs
hypotheses, but require their empirical verification.
Correct : B. pierce
59. Who introduces the principle of pragmatism as a development of the rationalistic
notion of “clear and distinct ideas”.
Correct : D. pierce
60. Who coined the word pragmatism from the Greek word pragma (“act” or “deed”) to
emphasize the fact that words derive their meanings from actions.
Correct : B. c.s. pierce
61. Who wrote the book Pragmatism,
Correct : C. william james
62. Who defines the term radical empiricism with pragmatism
Correct : D. william james
63. Who said, “Truth happens to an idea.”
Correct : C. william james
64. Workability, satisfactions, consequences, and results are the key words in the pragmatic
conception of truth according to …………….
Correct : C. pragmatism
65. Who began the method of pragmatism in the modern period
Correct : D. c.s. pierce
66. Who popularized the method of pragmatism
Correct : D. william james
67. Immanual Kant used the word ‘phenomena’ for
Correct : A. ”things as they appear to us”
68. Phenomenology for Hegel was
Correct : C. the science in which we study mind as it is in itself
69. -------------------was the first to use phenomenology as the name of a way of doing
philosophy
Correct : D. edmund husserl
70. ----------------------used the term phenomenology as the “theory of illusion”
Correct : B. j.h.lambert
71. The leading rule of phenomenological method is
Correct : B. “back to things themselves”
72. The slogon of phenomenology is
Correct : A. ”to the things themselves”
73. Hume’s phenomenalism states that
Correct : D. physical objects as well as human beings are no more than collections of their observable properties
74. ‘Psychological atomism ‘ is a type of reductionism according to which
Correct : C. consciousness is a set of contents, viz, sensations, feelings etc
75. Phenomenology opposes scientism which takes
Correct : C. scientific or empirical statements as premises in philosophical arguments
76. ‘Reduction ‘ in phenomenology means
Correct : C. exclusion
77. Phenomenology is
Correct : C. a science of experience, what is given in immediate experience
78. Phenomenology can be characterized as
Correct : A. a study of consciousness as intentional
79. The phenomenological analysis is
Correct : C. analysis of transcendental consciousness
80. In phenomenology, the exclusion of the existence of the object is called
Correct : A. bracketing existence
81. In phenomenology,’ whatness’ of the object is called
Correct : B. essence
82. The’ essence’ in phenomenology is
Correct : D. intentional object of consciousness
83. Phenomenology is
Correct : C. descriptive study of the ‘given’ without making any metaphysical postulate
84. ‘Intuition’ in phenomenology means
Correct : D. intuition of essences or intellectual observation
85. Intentionality, the phenomenological term used by Husserl refer to
Correct : B. the state of being intentional, an objective modifying act
86. Husserl had borrowed the concept of intentionality from
Correct : C. brentano
87. The author of Neues Organon
Correct : B. j.h.lambert
88. Kant used the word ‘noumena’ for
Correct : B. things as they are in themselves
89. C.S Peirce used the word ‘phenomena’ as
Correct : D. whatever is before mind, even illusory perceptions, imaginations or dreams
90. In “Back to things themselves” “things” are taken to mean
Correct : D. the “given”
91. The method of phenomenological reduction demands
Correct : C. suspension of our natural attitude
92. In phenomenology, the exclusion of subjectivity is called
Correct : A. the rule of ‘objectivism’
93. The method of phenomenology is transcendental in the sense that
Correct : B. it aims at disclosing the structures of consciousness
94. The exclusion of the existence of the object in ‘Bracketing Existence’ Means
Correct : A. suspension of our belief in the existence of objects
95. The objects of phenomenological seeing or intuition are
Correct : D. essences
96. The acid test of a truly critical philosophy, according to Husserl was
Correct : D. the ideal of presuppositionless philosophy
97. The best known contemporary advocate of phenomenological method is
Correct : C. sartre
98. Phenomenological intuition means
Correct : D. intuition of essences
99. According to Encyclopedia, the aim of phenomenological method is
Correct : B. to establish phenomenology as rigorous science