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Classical Western Epistemology And Metaphysics — Part 2 MCQs with Explanations

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Question 1 of 40
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Which one of the following is true with reference to Leibniz's doctrine of pre-established harmony?

Question 2 of 40
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Match List I and List II and choose the correct answer: List-I List-II a. Berkeley 1. lnteractionism b. Spinoza 2. Constant conjunction c. Descartes 3, Parallelism d. Hume 4. Subjective idealism

Question 3 of 40
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Consider the correct option, with reference to Descartes. 1. All Metal States are reducible to Physical state. 2. All physical states are reducible to Metal states. 3. Mind-Body relation is not similar to that of car and driver. 4. There is no corporeal and non-corporeal distinction with respect to human beings.

Question 4 of 40
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How can empiricist philosophers attain knowledge?

Question 5 of 40
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Locke derives . . . . . . . . of knowledge from experience.

Question 6 of 40
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Berkeley says that 1. matter is not perceived. 2. abstract ideas are rejected. 3. external objects are real. 4. distinction between primary and secondary qualities exist. Select the correct answer:

Question 7 of 40
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Is it correct to say that; Spinoza accepted mind and body as an attribute for a single substance?

Question 8 of 40
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Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer: List-I List-II a. Matter is someting I know not what 1. Berkeley b. Matter as such does not exist 2. Locke c. What we can know is only the phenomenon 3. Hegel d. The real is the rational 4. Kant

Question 9 of 40
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Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer: List-I List-II a. Locke 1. Synthetic apriori judgement b. Berkeley 2. Synthetic a posteriori judgement c. Hume 3. Knowledge of ideas d. Kant 4. Knowledge of sensations

Question 10 of 40
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Do Leibniz believe in the freedom of an individual?

Question 11 of 40
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Is it true with respect to Descartes doubting that 'Psychological doubt is regarded as independent of our will'.

Question 12 of 40
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Which among the following are necessary presuppositions of the possibility of objective knowledge according to Kant? 1. Synthetic apriori judgement 2. Space and time 3. Categories of understanding 4. Transcendental unity of apperception Select the correct answer:

Question 13 of 40
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'Your mind is the unit of substance conceived as thought and your body is a unit of substance conceived as extension." is the standpoint of

Question 14 of 40
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Who among the following has said "Nothing is unconditionally good, save the goodwill".

Question 15 of 40
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Copernicus has effected

Question 16 of 40
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Match the following: List-I List-II a. Kant 1. Golden means b. Hegel 2. Cardinal virtue c. Plato 3. Categorical imperative d. Aristole 4. Die to live

Question 17 of 40
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My station and its duties' is stated by

Question 18 of 40
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To be is to be perceived' is the view held by 1. Locke 2. Berkeley 3. Locke and Berkeley 4. Locke, Berkeley and Hume

Question 19 of 40
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Whatever was sensation in Locke's philosophy is impression in whose philosophy?

Question 20 of 40
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Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer: List-I List-II a. Hume 1. The idea of causality is not necessarily connected with uniformity b. Locke 2. God is the real cause of spirits and things c. Berkeley 3. The relation of the soul to the body is of the nature of the pilot and his machine d. Descartes 4. Past experience of constant conjunction

Question 21 of 40
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God has the capacity of . . . . . . . .

Question 22 of 40
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Spinoza rejects which philosophical ideological?

Question 23 of 40
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Who was called as 'God-intoxicated mystic' by novelist?

Question 24 of 40
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Match the following: List-I List-II a. Locke 1. Idea of substance b. Berkeley 2. Rejection of material c. Hume 3. Bundle theorist d. Descartes 4. Rational

Question 25 of 40
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According to Hegel, supreme spirit is referred as

Question 26 of 40
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While following rational method of inquiry, for Descartes the major foundation lies on what?

Question 27 of 40
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What qualities are received by sensational mind?

Question 28 of 40
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What kind of 'revolution' does Kant think he is making in metaphysics?

Question 29 of 40
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How many attributes are present according to Spinoza?

Question 30 of 40
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According to which theory the reality of a single God dwells in everything?

Question 31 of 40
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How many forms of sensibility are there?

Question 32 of 40
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Who among the following held that space and time are apriori percepts?

Question 33 of 40
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What is the characteristic of attributes according to Spinoza?

Question 34 of 40
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Antinomy of pure reason is dealt with Kant in his doctrine of

Question 35 of 40
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For complex ideas the . . . . . . . . of simple impressions are not necessary.

Question 36 of 40
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Categories is referred as an important part of what?

Question 37 of 40
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Match the following: List-I (Philosophers) List-II (Views about Objects) a. Descartes 1. A collection of Ideas b. Spinoza 2. An extended substance c. Leibniz 3. A moda d. Berkeley 4. An aggregate of spiritual atoms

Question 38 of 40
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Everything has a cause. How does Kant interpret it?

Question 39 of 40
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Match the following: List-I List-II a. Monad 1. Descartes b. Matter does not have consciousness 2. Spinoza c. Mind and matter are regarded as attributes of substances 3. Leibniz d. Empiricism 4. Locke

Question 40 of 40
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Hume believes in 1. impressions 2. matters of facts 3. rationalism 4. distinction between primary and secondary qualities Select the correct answer:

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