1. The view that knowledge is attained through sense experience is called:
Correct : D. Empiricism
2. Which among the following is the characteristic of Modern Philosophy
Correct : D. All of the above
3. Who authored ‘Essay on Human Understanding’
Correct : B. John Locke
4. Modern philosophy began in
Correct : A. Renaissance
5. The father of modern western philosophy
Correct : C. Descartes
6. Descartes advocated the philosophy of:
Correct : C. Dualism
7. Descartes is a
Correct : C. rationalist
8. The concept of innate ideas is put forward by:
Correct : D. Descartes
9. …………. Is advocated theory of interactionism
Correct : A. Descartes
10. According to Descartes, the Absolute substance refers to:
Correct : A. God
11. According to Descartes, the idea of God is :
Correct : D. Innate
12. Which one of the following views is held by Descartes?
Correct : A. Mind and body are the two substances which exist independently of each other
13. Which one of the following statements adequately sums up Descartes’ philosophy?
Correct : B. The world is made of two radically different kinds of substance, mind and matter.
14. Which one of the following types of substances is NOT admitted by Descartes?
Correct : B. Perpetually changing
15. In order to escape …………………, Descartes has introduced the idea of God
Correct : B. Solipsism
16. The rationalist philosopher …………. wants to give philosophy a stable character like mathematics.
Correct : A. Descartes
17. .......... defines substance as “ an existent thing which requires nothing but itself in order to exist”.
Correct : C. Descartes
18. Descartes claims God as the …………..substance, and mind and matter as ……… substance.
Correct : A. absolute , created
19. Descartes suggests ……………… as absolute substance
Correct : A. God
20. Which one of the following statements is NOT supported by Descartes?
Correct : D. Mind and matter are both identical
21. The doctrine of Occassionalism advocated by
Correct : B. Malebranche
22. Which one of the following statements is entitled by Descartes’ cogito ergo sum?
Correct : C. I exist while I think
23. Descartes recognizes mind and matter as ……. substances which are created by God.
Correct : B. Relative
24. Descartes suggests mind and matter are ………..
Correct : A. Opposed on each other
25. Descartes advocates …………..by admitting mind and matter as two substances
Correct : A. Dualism
26. To solve mind and body problem, Descartes has introduced ……….
Correct : B. Psycho-physical Interactionism
27. Which among is NOT included Descartes three kinds of ideas
Correct : B. Complex Ideas
28. Descartes argues against trusting the senses on the grounds that ………
Correct : B. They sometimes deceive him
29. Descartes declares that he is …………
Correct : C. a thing that thinks
30. Descartes reasons that the very fact that he is thinking shows that ……
Correct : C. He exists
31. The view that we consist of two distinct substances (body and mind) and that these two interact
is known as ………
Correct : B. Identity theory
32. Descartes believed that interaction between body and mind took place in ……
Correct : C. the pineal gland
33. Descartes says that the chief characteristic of physical things is that …..
Correct : D. They have extension
34. Which of the following do Cartesian dualists reject?
Correct : D. That mind exist in space
35. According to Descartes, knowledge is
Correct : C. Certain
36. For Descartes, cogito ergo sum is
Correct : B. An indubitable truth
37. Which claim did Descartes use to establish the certainty of his own existence?
Correct : B. I think, therefore I am
38. What was clarity and distinctness a mark of, for Rene Descartes?
Correct : C. Truth
39. Who authored the book Discourse on Method ?.
Correct : A. Descartes
40. Which book authored Rene Descartes
Correct : C. Meditations on First Philosophy
41. Descartes uses the method of doubt to cast doubt on
Correct : A. The existence of the external world
42. Spinoza equates substance with ------- and --------
Correct : B. Nature, God
43. By admitting only God, Spinoza fails to explain plurality, diversity, motion and change of the …..
Correct : B. Objects of the world
44. Which one of the following statements is associated with Spinoza?
Correct : C. Mind and body are not two independent substances but are two parallel manifestations of the same reality.
45. Which one of the following statements is true, according to Spinoza?
Correct : C. There can be no substance outside of God
46. By ‘mode’ Spinoza means that which
Correct : D. Exists through something other than itself
47. What is true of Spinoza’s parallelism?
Correct : C. It is double aspect theory accepting both the mental and physical realms as manifestations of the same substance.
48. Spinoza claims substance is …………. and ………………
Correct : B. One, infinite
49. By ………….. Spinoza understands that which is in itself and which is conceived by means of itself.
Correct : C. Substance
50. ............ points out that if Descartes, definition of substance is to be strictly adhered to, there can be only one substance, i.e., God.
Correct : A. Spinoza
51. According to Spinoza, body and mind
Correct : C. are parallel to each other
52. The view that one may consider God both as Naturanaturans and Natruanaturata is maintained
by:
Correct : B. Spinoza
53. The fundamental property of substance is known as:
Correct : B. Attribute
54. …….. declares that there are no substances other than God.
Correct : A. Spinoza
55. Who declares that there are no substances other than God
Correct : A. Spinoza
56. Spinoza is an advocate of
Correct : B. Pantheism
57. What did Benedict Spinoza think a person is
Correct : A. a mode of God/Nature
58. ‘There can only one substance which is causasui (cause of itself) and this single substance must
be identified with the universe a whole. This unique all inclusive totality is therefore God or Nature’ whose statement?
Correct : D. Spinoza
59. The position of psycho-physical parallelism is advocated by:
Correct : B. Spinoza
60. God according to Leibniz is:
Correct : D. Monad of Monads
61. Monadology is the famous work of:
Correct : C. Leibniz
62. A monad is explained as:
Correct : B. Unit of force
63. Leibniz advocated the theory of:
Correct : B. Pre-established harmony
64. Doctrine of monads is advocated by:
Correct : B. Leibniz
65. For Leibnitz, monad is windowless because
Correct : A. It is absolutely free from external influence
66. …………. Admits innumerable monads or spiritual atoms
Correct : A. Leibnitz
67. .............. thinks that substance is to be defined by active force
Correct : D. Leibnitz
68. The monads are …… and everything is potential or implicit in it
Correct : C. Windowless
69. Which among is NOT correct regarding monads
Correct : C. Perceive each other
70. Leibnitz defines substance or ‘monad’ as
Correct : A. Active force
71. Every monad is a …… of the universe which generates the images of things by its own activity
Correct : C. Living mirror
72. Leibnitz philosophy is
Correct : C. Pluralistic
73. Which among the following is NOT applicable to Leibnitz
Correct : B. Extension is real
74. Leibnitz claims that there is only a …….. between soul and body, instituted by God
Correct : B. Complete correspondence
75. Mind is a ‘tabula rasa’ according to:
Correct : B. Locke
76. John Locke rejected the concept of:
Correct : B. Innate Ideas
77. There must be an unknown and unknowable substratum which supports the existence of ………..
qualities
Correct : A. Primary
78. The secondary properties of substance are known as ………….
Correct : A. Modes
79. Which one of the following according to Locke is correct description of substance?
Correct : C. Substance is a known locus of qualities.
80. Locke suggests that mind knows directly the ……. and not the objects themselves.
Correct : B. Ideas of the object
81. Which one of the following according to Locke justifies the distinction between primary and
secondary qualities?
Correct : D. Primary qualities are objective while secondary qualities are subjective
82. John Locke has divided the qualities of things into ……… and ……..
Correct : C. Primary, secondary
83. As an empiricist, Locke claims that all our knowledge is derived either through sensation or …….
Correct : B. Reflection
84. Which one of the following is true of Locke’s view of substance?
Correct : A. Substance is the sum of qualities
85. Which one of the following arguments is advance by Locke for the rejection of innate ideas?
Correct : B. If there were innate ideas then we should find them expressed in infants and untutored savages.
86. Which one of the following is the correct definition of secondary qualities, according to Locke?
Correct : A. Secondary qualities are nothing in the objects themselves but powers to produce sensations in us by their primary qualities.
87. Which among the following is NOT Locke’ view of ideas
Correct : A. The mind is active in the reception of simple ideas
88. An example for secondary quality
Correct : A. colour
89. An example for primary quality
Correct : D. number
90. A …………. is one which ‘being in itself uncompounded, contains in it nothing but one uniform
appearance or conception in the mind and is no distinguishable into different ideas’. In other words it is an unanalyzable simple datum of knowledge.
Correct : A. Simple Idea
91. Empiricism is the epistemological theory that the only source of knowledge about the external
world is
Correct : D. sense experience
92. The philosophical position of Berkeley is known as:
Correct : A. Subjective Idealism
93. ‘To be is to be perceived’ according to:
Correct : A. Berkeley
94. Who claims that only mind and their ideas exist
Correct : B. Berkeley
95. Berkeley asserts that existing and perceiving are
Correct : A. One and the same thing
96. Berkeley insists that heat and cold are …..
Correct : D. Only sensations existing in our minds
97. What did George Berkeley mean about such things as tables and chairs when he denied the
existence of matter?
Correct : A. There are no unperceived tables and chairs.
98. What was Berkeley’s explanation for the fact that things like rocks and trees seem to continue
to exist even when humans don’t perceive them?
Correct : D. God always perceives them.
99. Berkeley rejects Locke’s distinction between primary and secondary qualities because
Correct : A. All qualities are subjective
100. As all beings are particular things, so all ideas are particular ideas, is said by