1.

Philosophers view philosophy in the following perspective

except?(a) Emotions (b) personal views (C) conclusions (d)
prescriptions
2. Philosophy comes from two Greek words which
are ......................(A)Sophie and phina (B) Sophai and Philien
(C) Sophia and philein (D) Suffer and Philien
3. Who defines philosophy as the " irresistible desire to search
for the foundationalor universal nature of things.(A) Plato (B)
Aristotle (C) Christian (D) Udoidem
4. "Philosophy is a human enterprise to be inquired into rather
than a mere term tobe defined" , who is receives credit for the
quoted statement?(A) Christian Grey (B) Stoics (C) Jeremy
Bentham (D)Herman Randall
5. According to Harold Titus, philosophy can be understood
through one of thefollowing ways?(A) The study of Plato and
Aristotle (B) Understanding fallacious reasoning (C)Reflected
thinking and seasoned enquiry (d) Dogmatic arguments in
what you believe in
6. According to Russel, philosophy is something intermediate
to ............... and..................?(A) Science and technology (B)
science and Engineering (C) science and Math (D)science and
Theology
7. Ethics and ................ are the branches of Axiology ?(A)
Metaphysics (B) Logic (C) aesthetics (D) epistemology
8. While logic is concerned with reasoning, epistemology is
concerned with..............?(A)reliability of claims to knowledge
(B) morality (C) understanding of the supernatural(D) love
9. Philosophy and science could have been brought forth in?
(A) 585 B.C (B) 586 B.C. (C) 587 B.C. (D) 588 B.C
10. Thales , Anaximenes and Anaximander were .............?(A)
stoics (b) Milesian philosophers (c). Ethical thinkers. (D)
scientists
11. According to Pythagoras, all things consist of ..........?(A)
radius (b) circumference (C) numbers (D) algebra
12. In philosophy, idealism is traceable to ........?(A) Aristotle
(B) Plato (C) Randall. (D)Christian13. "Fides procidit
intellectum " means ..........?(A) faith must exist before one can
understand (B) faith proceeds intelligence (C)intelligence
proceeds faith (D) Fidelity proceeds intelligence
14. "Credo ut intelligam " can be interpreted as............?(A)
every creation is intelligent. (B) I believe in order to
understand. (C) credibility is intelligence. (D) cradle to
intelligence
15. ................ Was the foremost realist ?(A) Plato. (B) Aristotle.
(C) Harold. (D) Randall
16. Who emphasized the cash value of an idea ?(A) John
Dewey. (B) Jeremy Bentham (C) Plato (D) Aristotle
17. The primary aim of education for the existentialist is to
enable ........?(A) man exist happily. (B) man live an authentic
life. (C) preserve humanity (D) amoral free society.
18. Who is regarded as the father of political science?(A)
Aristotle. (B) Plato (c) Karl Marx. (D) Thomas Hobbes 19.
According to John Locke, ............. Is the basis of government?
(A) Law. (B) Force (c) rights (d) the bible
20. Karl Marx explained the historical process in ..........?(A)
Marxian terms. (B) proletariat terms (c) economic terms. (D)
bourgeois terms

Answers

Chapter 1:1. A. 2. C. 3.D. 4. D. 5. C. 6. D. 7. C. 8. A. 9. A. 10. B.

11. C 12. B. 13. A. 14. B. 15.B. 16. A. 17. B. 18. A. 19. A. 20. C.
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types, nature and problem
1.One of the following philosophers is the author of " The
problems of philosophy"?(A) Jeremy Bentham. (B) Bertrand
Russell. (C) Thomas Hobbes. (D) John Locke
2. Epistemology asserts that knowledge is ..........?(A) A true
belief. (B) a justified belief. (C) a justified true belief (d) a
dogmatic belief.
3. Gorgias was a .........?(A) moralist (b) realist. (C) sophist. (D)
idealist
4. "If knowledge is possible , it must be able to be thoroughly
grounded. Butknowledge is not able to be thoroughly
grounded therefore knowledge is impossible" the quoted
argument is the position of.........?(A) ethics (B) metaphysics.
( c) locus. (D) skepticism
5. According to Karl Popper ,the following procedures lead to
knowledge(A)observation -- problem --- testing --- theory ------
problem. (B) problem ----testing ---experimentation --- theory ---
problem (C) problem --- observation ---experimentation ---
theory --- problem ( D) testing --- experimentation --- theory --
problem.6. Mills define induction as ...............?(A) seeking of
wisdom (B) dogmatic expression. (C) generalization of
knowledge(D)introduction of a theory
7. ..................... Such as Descartes, Spinoza and Leibniz were of
the opinion that reasonor intellect is the primary source for the
acquisition of ideas.(A) idealists (B)rationalists. (C) naturalists.
(D) scientists
8. The following philosophers were notable classical empiricist
except ?(A) Immanuel Kant. (B) David Hume. (C) George
Berkeley. (D) John Locke
(9) One of the following philosophers opined that both the
intellect and senses werenecessary for the acquisition of
knowledge?(A) Immanuel Kant. (B) David Hume (C) George
Berkeley. (D) John Locke
(10) .................... Is credited with highlighting the problem of
belief as a condition of knowledge?(A) Edmund Gettier. (B)
Colin Radford. (C) Charles Popper. (D) Tih Spinoza
11. One of the following scholars reject the notions of
justification but rather see science or knowledge generally in
terms of context of discovery?(A) Gettier. (B) Radford. (C)
Popper. (D) Spinoza
12. One of the following scholars belief that truth should be
seen as an ideal on which only approximations can be made,
(A) Edmund Gettier. (B) Colin Radford (C) Karl Popper. (D)
Spinoza
13. ............,,, means that we should suspend our judgement
rather than affirm or denyany knowledge claim?(A) skepticism
(B) rationalism. (C) realism. (D) idealism
14. Inductivists believe that during knowledge
enquiry................. comes
before...............?(A) collection of data , observation. (B)
observation, collection of data. (C) theory,formulation of
hypothesis (D) theory, experimentation
15. Any society that fails to identify the problem of knowledge
will find itself
at..............?(A) abyss of frustration. (B) at the mercy of vagaries
of nature. (C) a road of no
return (D) a kingdom of no ruler
16. Human senses are .....................?(A) infallible and strong.
(B) perfect and dominant (C)optimistic and hopeful (D)fallible
and prone to error
17. .................. believes that there is no knowledge beyond
doubt?(A) Rationalism. (B) empiricism. (C) Axiology. (D)
skepticism
18. According to Mautner , people can know different things
but cannot know...................?(A) similar things. (B) variable
things. (C) incompatible things. (D) synonymous things
19. Modern philosophers believe that....................
and .................... are both necessary inthe acquisition of
knowledge.(A) inductive and deductive reasoning. (B) positive
and negative reasoning. (C)optimistic and pessimistic
reasoning. (D) legal and illegal reasoning
20. Bertrand Russell believed that definite knowledge belongs
to ...................... and not philosophy?(A) religion. (B) Angels.
(C) science. (D) metaphysics

Answers
Chapter 2

1. B. 2. C. 3. C 4. D. 5. C 6. C. 7. B 8. A. 9. A. 10. A. 11. C. 12. C

13. A. 14. B 15.B 16. D. 17. D. 18. C. 19. A. 20. C
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1. Logic is derived from a Greek word "logos" which may mean

any of the following except?(A) argument. (B) reason. (C) word.
(D) speech
2. The study of................ is the effort to determine the
conditions under which one is
justified in moving from propositions or statements called
premises to a conclusion
that is claimed to follow from them.(A) fallacy. (B) argument.
(C) logic. (D) human existence
3. Who gave logic a fundamental place in philosophy?(A)
Plato. (B) Aristotle. (C) Descartes. (D) Russell
4. Logic deals with .................. and .................. arguments and
aims to distinguish good reasoning from bad reasoning .(A)
inductive and deductive argument (B) positive and negative
argument (C)optimistic and pessimistic argument (D) legal and
illegal argument
5. What division of logic examines argument forms in order to
determine their validity and invalidity?(A) informal logic. (B)
metaphysical logic. (C) formal logic. (D) argumentative logic
(6) A logical calculus in its symbol and method of expression
can be ................?(A) an argument. (B) a command (c) a
language. (D) a drawing
7. ................... is a statement which can be appraised as either
true or false?(A) argument (B) premise. (C) conclusion. (D)
proposition
8. ................ is the proposition arrived at or affirmed on the
basis of the premises?(A) argument (B) premise. (C)
conclusion. (D) proposition
9. The premises of a .................... argument necessitate its
conclusion?(A) deductive (B) inductive. (C) descriptive. (D)
analytical
10. The validity of an argument is dependent on ?(A) the truth
of the premise. (B) the truth of the conclusion. (C) the falsity of
the conclusion. (D) the logical form
11. .................... argument can be valid yet unsound?(A)
deductive (B) inductive. (C) descriptive. (D) analytical
12. Inductive arguments can be described in the following
ways except?(A) better or worse. (B) valid or invalid. (C)
stronger or weaker
13. An inference could be ................ or ....................?(A) mediate
or immediate (B)better or worse. (C)valid or invalid. (D)stronger
or weaker
14. An inference is .................. when more than one premise is
involved?(A) mediate. (B) immediate. (C) strong. (D) weak
15. There is a logical movement from premises to conclusion
in ?(A) inductive inference. (B) deductive inference. (C) valid
inference. (D) invalid inference
16. ................... is a mediate inference by which from truths
already known, we advance to knowledge of other truths
necessarily implied in the former?(A) inductive inference. (B)
deductive inference. (C) valid inference. (D) invalid inference
17. ................. L