2. Which one of the following vies truly explains the status of matter in the light of Berkeley’s
thesis ‘esseestpercipii’?
Correct : B. Whatever is known is only ideas
3. Berkeley suggests, as all beings are particular, so all ideas are
Correct : B. Particular ideas
4. Berkeley ……..the assumption of general ideas in the mind and the belief in the existence of a
material world outside it
Correct : B. rejects
5. Which among the following is NOT true for Berkeley?
Correct : D. External objects are real and exist outside our mind.
6. Who claims only minds and their ideas exist
Correct : A. Berkeley
7. Which one of the following theses is the most fundamental to Berkeley’s world views?
Correct : C. Secondary qualities are the powers to produce sensations in us by their primary qualities.
8. Which one of the following is the view of Berkeley?
Correct : B. Bodies are mere appearances of our outer sense, and not things-in-themselves.
9. Which one of the following statements is not implied by Berkeley’s view that ‘to be is to be
perceived’?
Correct : A. Ideas can exist only as long as they are being perceived.
10. Which one among the following does NOT figure in Berkeley’s rejection of abstract ideas?
Correct : D. A particular idea can be made to represent all other particular ideas of the same sort.
11. Who, among the following western philosophers attempted to refute ‘Matter’?
Correct : B. Berkeley
12. Berkeley believes that sensible things cannot exist except in …….
Correct : A. A mind
13. Which among the following is correct
Correct : D. All the above
14. Which among the following is NOT correct statement
Correct : C. According to Descartes there is only one substance, i.e, God
15. Who claimed that an abstract idea does not exist.
Correct : B. George Berkeley
16. The maxim of ‘esseestpercipii’ is put forward by:
Correct : A. Berkeley
17. Which of the following books is NOT written by David Hume?
Correct : C. The Phenomenology of Spirit
18. According to Hume there are two kinds of contents of the mind, namely …..
Correct : D. Impressions and their ideas
19. According to Hume, ……… is secondary and ….. is primary.
Correct : A. Reflection, sensation
20. Hume’s theory, that all impressions as such are distinct and separate with no logical connection
between them, is known as ……
Correct : B. Humean skepticism
21. Hume does not believe in ……
Correct : C. Certainty of Knowledge
22. ‘Substance is a product of human imagination’ is said by …..
Correct : D. Hume
23. According to Hume, all knowledge is derived from:
Correct : B. Experience
24. David Hume is accepted as a:
Correct : D. Skeptic
25. What is the self, according to Hume?
Correct : A. A sequence of perceptions
26. Why can’t we have cause and effect knowledge, according to Hume?
Correct : C. We can never observe a necessary connection between events.
27. Which among the following is NOT correct statement
Correct : C. Hume’s point is that the idea of necessary connection between cause and effect is something that experience can give us.
28. Synthetic unity of apperception is advocated by:
Correct : B. Kant
29. The expression ‘Copernican revolution in thought’ is attributed to:
Correct : A. Kant
30. Kant’s Copernican revolution in philosophy is …..
Correct : B. The objects must approach the mind to be known at all
31. Which one of the following concepts is associated with Immanuel Kant?
Correct : D. synthetic apriori
32. In Transcendental Aesthetic, Kant discusses the theory of ….
Correct : B. Space and time
33. According to Kant, knowledge begins with sense proceeds thence to …….. and ends in …..
Correct : A. Understanding, reason
34. Kant has called his epistemological enquiry …….
Correct : C. Transcendental
35. Kant’s philosophy is known as
Correct : A. Criticism
36. A proposition, in which the predicate does not belong to the subject, is known as …..
Correct : A. Synthetic
37. The critique of Pure Reason is really a treatise on …. With special reference to science
Correct : B. Epistemology
38. According to Kant, the laws of nature
Correct : B. Exist in our minds, and we apply them to construct nature as we experience it.
39. Metaphysics is only possible if we can gain knowledge from statement which are
Correct : B. synthetic a priori
40. How does Kant say that our mind experiences intuitions?
Correct : C. Intuitions are experienced in space and time
41. According to Kant we know ourselves
Correct : A. Only by the phenomenal self we experience in this world
42. According to Kant the ideas of reason are not …. But ….. principles of knowledge
Correct : D. Constitutive, regulative
43. Why doesn't Kant think that we can have knowledge of the things-in-themselves (das ding- an-sich)?
Correct : A. Because they have not yet been experienced.
44. The a priori conditions of all knowledge is advocated by:
Correct : A. Kant
45. Who authored the book Critique of Pure Reason
Correct : A. Immanuel Kant
46. The concepts come to be applied to the sensible through the ………-schema.
Correct : A. Time
47. -------------- means that there are a priori categories of the understanding which determine the objectivity of empirical statements and that by their means alone such statements can ever be
obtained.
Correct : D. Transcendental Deduction
48. The knowledge which is constructed by the understanding, by means of its categories, is the
knowledge of ……………
Correct : A. Phenomenon
49. Which of the following is true for Kant
Correct : D. All of the above
50. According to Kant, moral duty is
Correct : C. The imperative of pure reason
51. According to Kant, we ought to treat humanity
Correct : A. always only as an end
52. According to Kant, moral law is
Correct : A. a priori, and based on reason
53. A furtherprocess of synthesis is effected a priori by the three ideas of reason, namely,
Correct : C. World, soul, God
54. The philosopher who put forward the dialectical method is:
Correct : C. Hegel
55. According to Hegel, there are three stages in the logical development of spirit: subjective mind,
objective mind and …..
Correct : C. Absolute Spirit
56. Which method is the proper method of philosophy, according to Hegel, is determined by the
subject matter of philosophy itself
Correct : C. the dialectical
57. The Absolute for Hegel is
Correct : D. Idea
58. The real is the rational, and the rational is the real’ is the doctrine of
Correct : D. Hegel
59. Having shown that metaphysics is unproved and speculative at best, Kant goes on to argue
that
Correct : B. We ought to study metaphysics as a science because it asks good questions.
60. What do we directly observe, according to David Hume?
Correct : B. Sense impressions
61. Absolute Idealism is advocated by
Correct : D. Hegel
62. According to Absolute Idealism, what is the relationship between being real and being
knowable?
Correct : B. All reality is knowable
63. 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 this stage is ………
Correct : C. Synthesis
64. For Hegel, Idea means
Correct : B. Concrete universal
65. According to the Absolute Idealism of Hegel
Correct : A. There is only one reality
66. What is the highest reality (the Absolute), for Hegel?