1. The book Phenomenology of Spirit is authored by:
Correct : C. hegel
2. 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
3. The book ‘Poverty of Philosophy is written by:
Correct : A. marx
4. Marx method of dialectics is known as
Correct : B. materialistic
5. For-----, the dialectical movement in thought is derived from the actual movement of the real world.
Correct : C. marx
6. 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
7. -----------is the basis of Marxian dialectics
Correct : A. negation
8. How many triads in Marxian dialectics
Correct : B. one
9. Who recognizes the significance of identity in every moment of contradiction?
Correct : A. hegel
10. -------- claims that the knowing subject or self is ultimate reality.
Correct : A. subjective idealism
11. According to Russell---- is an immediate, specific content of sensation
Correct : A. sense data
12. Vicious Circle Principle is related to -----
Correct : C. russell
13. Which of the following is the example of indefinite description?
Correct : B. a man
14. Definite descriptions begin with the definite articles as ------
Correct : D. the table
15. In which work Russell’s theory of description found
Correct : A. on denoting
16. Russell is a-------Philosopher
Correct : D. british
17. Who wrote A History of Western Philosophy?
Correct : A. russell
18. In 1950 --------- received the Nobel Prize for Literature
Correct : C. russell
19. Russell who belonged to --------society
Correct : C. fabian
20. Russell was against the---------dominant in England
Correct : B. absolute idealism
21. The technique of reduction of Mathematics to logic was first by---------
Correct : A. russell
22. Principia Mathematica is the work of -------
Correct : D. russell and whitehead
23. Complex propositions can be resolved into their simple components by Russell is called --------
Correct : C. logical language
24. Logical Atomism is the philosophy of -------
Correct : B. russell
25. Who visited Russia and expressed his disappointment with the form of Socialism practiced there?
Correct : A. russell
26. The Theory of Descriptions is the philosophy of ------
Correct : D. russell
27. Who was the exponent of set theory?
Correct : A. russell
28. Russell is an -----Philosopher
Correct : C. empiricist
29. On Denoting is the work of --------
Correct : B. russell
30. Which of the following is related to Russell’s Paradox?
Correct : D. theory of types
31. The early period of wittgenstein is related to -------
Correct : A. tractatus
32. Philosophical Investigation is the work of -----
Correct : D. wittgenstein
33. Wittgenstein says that language is a ---
Correct : B. picture of reality
34. Who draws the difference between showing and saying?
Correct : C. wittgenstein
35. The philosophy of language game is found in ------
Correct : B. philosophical investigation
36. Correspondence theory of truth is developed by
Correct : C. wittgenstein
37. Who among the following included in analytical philosophy?
Correct : A. wittgenstein
38. Wittgenstein was born in April 26, 1889 in -------
Correct : D. vienna
39. Wittgenstein was associated with -----
Correct : B. vienna circle
40. Who wrote Blue and Brown Notebooks?
Correct : B. wittgenstein
41. Who wrote Tractatus ?
Correct : B. wittgenstein
42. Wittgenstein said that world consist of ------
Correct : A. facts
43. Who said the picture theory of meaning?
Correct : D. wittgenstein
44. Wittgenstein’s logical construction of philosophical system has a purpose to find out the limits of world, thought and --
Correct : D. language
45. Who said that don’t ask for the meaning but says meaning as use?
Correct : C. wittgenstein
46. Logical Positivists were influenced by --------
Correct : A. wittgenstein
47. According to Wittgenstein, language has an isomorphic relation to ----
Correct : C. world
48. According to Wittgenstein, reporting events is an example of -----
Correct : D. language game
49. ------- who inspired the so-called Cambridge School of Analysis
Correct : A. russell
50. Who is Wittgenstein’s mentor?
Correct : C. russell
51. “Pragmatism is nothing new: but it is a new name for some old way of thinking” who stated this?
Correct : A. william james
52. Sophist’s test of truth was identical with the method of………….?
Correct : C. pragmatism
53. Who was considered as a medieval pragmatist thinker?
Correct : C. augustine
54. Who was considered as the Precusor of Pragmatism
Correct : B. immanuel kant
55. 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
56. Descartes was a ………thinker
Correct : D. rationalist
57. Kant ‘s concept can be stated as
Correct : D. critical idealism
58. Hegel’ thought can be stated as
Correct : A. critical idealism
59. Who stated “Man is the measure of all things.”
Correct : C. protagoras
60. Who was convinced about the deductive, intuitive and primitive empirical approaches to philosophy?
Correct : D. francis bacon
61. Who acknowledged the major Kantian insight of the importance of mind as an active agent in the interpretation of experience
Correct : D. pragmatists
62. Which method accepted that Truth is a belief evolved through the test of experience?
Correct : D. pragmatism
63. …………. is opposed to absolutism, absolute truth, absolute good, absolute reality
Correct : C. pragmatism
64. Which American mathematician philosopher laid down the foundation of pragmatism?
Correct : C. c s pierce
65. Which maxim states ‘a rule for clarifying the contents of hypotheses by tracing their practical consequences’?
Correct : A. pragmatist
66. Who published the article “How To Make Our Ideas Clear.”?
Correct : A. pierce
67. Who wished to establish philosophy on a scientific basis and to treat theories as working hypotheses?
Correct : B. pierce
68. Pragmaticism is the name associated with
Correct : B. pierce
69. Who accepts only the “general method of science”, a method that employs hypotheses, but require their empirical verification.
Correct : B. pierce
70. Who introduces the principle of pragmatism as a development of the rationalistic notion of “clear and distinct ideas”.
Correct : D. pierce
71. 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
72. Who defines the term radical empiricism with pragmatism
Correct : D. william james
73. Who said, “Truth happens to an idea.”
Correct : C. william james
74. Workability, satisfactions, consequences, and results are the key words in the pragmatic conception of truth according to …………….
Correct : C. pragmatism
75. Who began the method of pragmatism in the modern period
Correct : D. c.s. pierce
76. Who popularized the method of pragmatism
Correct : D. william james
77. Immanual Kant used the word ‘phenomena’ for
Correct : A. ”things as they appear to us”
78. Phenomenology for Hegel was
Correct : C. the science in which we study mind as it is in itself
79. -------------------was the first to use phenomenology as the name of a way of doing philosophy
Correct : D. edmund husserl
80. ----------------------used the term phenomenology as the “theory of illusion”
Correct : B. j.h.lambert
81. The leading rule of phenomenological method is
Correct : B. “back to things themselves”
82. The slogon of phenomenology is
Correct : A. ”to the things themselves”
83. Hume’s phenomenalism states that
Correct : D. physical objects as well as human beings are no more than collections of their observable properties
84. Psychologism as an example of reductionism
Correct : A. is the identification of logical with psychological statements
85. ‘Psychological atomism ‘ is a type of reductionism according to which
Correct : C. consciousness is a set of contents, viz, sensations, feelings etc
86. Phenomenology opposes scientism which takes
Correct : C. scientific or empirical statements as premises in philosophical arguments
87. ‘Reduction ‘ in phenomenology means
Correct : C. exclusion
88. Phenomenology is
Correct : C. a science of experience, what is given in immediate experience
89. Phenomenology can be characterized as
Correct : A. a study of consciousness as intentional
90. The phenomenological analysis is
Correct : C. analysis of transcendental consciousness
91. In phenomenology, the exclusion of the existence of the object is called
Correct : A. bracketing existence
92. In phenomenology,’ whatness’ of the object is called
Correct : B. essence
93. The’ essence’ in phenomenology is
Correct : D. intentional object of consciousness
94. Phenomenology is
Correct : C. descriptive study of the ‘given’ without making any metaphysical postulate
95. ‘Intuition’ in phenomenology means
Correct : D. intuition of essences or intellectual observation
96. Intentionality, the phenomenological term used by Husserl refer to
Correct : B. the state of being intentional, an objective modifying act
97. Husserl had borrowed the concept of intentionality from
Correct : C. brentano
98. The author of Neues Organon
Correct : B. j.h.lambert
99. Kant used the word ‘noumena’ for
Correct : B. things as they are in themselves
100. C.S Peirce used the word ‘phenomena’ as
Correct : D. whatever is before mind, even illusory perceptions, imaginations or dreams