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Plato And Aristotle — Part 2 MCQs with Explanations

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Question 1 of 40
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Matter and form can be distinguished in what?

Question 2 of 40
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Which of the following were rejected by Plato with regard to the answer 'what is Knowledge'? 1. Knowledge is sense perception. 2. Knowledge is opinion. 3. Knowledge is judgement. 4. Knowledge is true judgement. Select the correct answer:

Question 3 of 40
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Which among the following is not the argument from relation, according to Plato?

Question 4 of 40
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Organon was regarded as . . . . . . . . work on logic.

Question 5 of 40
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According to Aristotle, logic comes under which domain?

Question 6 of 40
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Aristotle wrote 1. Nichomachean ethics 2. Symposium 3. Logic as organon 4. Memo Select the correct answer:

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"If there are no individual circular things; there would be no such thing as the form called circularity? Can be attributed to

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Which among the following is not the characteristics of Ideas?

Question 9 of 40
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Plato means soul . . . . . . . . over the world of bodies.

Question 10 of 40
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According to Plato's 'Theory of form', in which among the following the essence of things consist in?

Question 11 of 40
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Which among the following comes under the domain of practical sciences?

Question 12 of 40
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Practical knowledge is known as

Question 13 of 40
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Aristotle's poetics' are said to be the part of which type of science for Aristotle?

Question 14 of 40
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Which among the followings are not the book of Plato?

Question 15 of 40
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Match the following: List-I List-II a. Aristotle 1. Biologist b. Plato 2. Theory of ideas c. Descartes 3. Mind and matter d. Leibniz 4. Monadology

Question 16 of 40
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Choose the correct order of hierarchy of sciences according to Plato.

Question 17 of 40
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Soul is regarded as . . . . . . . . to body.

Question 18 of 40
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What does Aristotle mean by 'Actuality'?

Question 19 of 40
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Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R) . Considering (A) and (R) in the light of Plato's epistemology. Mark the correct answer. Assertion (A) Conceptual knowledge is the only genuine knowledge. Reason (R) Conceptual knowledge does not presuppose the reality of corresponding ideal or abstract objects.

Question 20 of 40
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Match the following. List-I List-II a. Plato 1. Parmenides b. Aristotle 2. Discourse on Method c. Berkeley 3. Nicomechian Ethics d. Descartes 4. Principles of Human Knowledge

Question 21 of 40
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What is the other views upon the Plato's dialectic method?

Question 22 of 40
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What do we understand by conjectural knowledge

Question 23 of 40
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Match the following: List-I List-II a. Aristotle 1. Theory of causation b. Plato 2. Rational knowledge c. Opinion 3. False d. Soul 4. Immortal

Question 24 of 40
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Who gave teleological and cosmological argument for the existence of God?

Question 25 of 40
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What kind of relation is established through hypothetical knowledge?

Question 26 of 40
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What is the kind of argument is this "There are several trees but all of them have a common nature"?

Question 27 of 40
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Consider the following statements in the light of Plato's metaphysics and select the correct answer: 1. What is truly real is objects that we encounter in sensory experience. 2. What is truly real is forms that can only be grasped intellectually. 3. Forms are eternal and changing.

Question 28 of 40
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Who should be trusted according to Plato in his theory of forms?

Question 29 of 40
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Plato says that the three parts of the embodied soul are 1. reason 2. high spirits 3. appetities 4. non-appetities Select the correct answer:

Question 30 of 40
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According to Nichomachean Ethics 'Phronesis' refers to

Question 31 of 40
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Which one of the following philosophers believed that "intuition is the essential element in Induction, the process in which thought rises from sense perception to the knowledge of universals"?

Question 32 of 40
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Which among the following is the highest form of thought for Plato?

Question 33 of 40
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The form is regarded as the principle of

Question 34 of 40
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Matter is regarded as

Question 35 of 40
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Which among the following cannot be separated?

Question 36 of 40
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Which one of the following can be placed under 'Opinion' according to Plato?

Question 37 of 40
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In which among the following book, Plato talked about opinion and knowledge?

Question 38 of 40
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Who among the following has said that "Punishment brings wisdom. It is the healing art of wickedness"

Question 39 of 40
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A formis regarded as

Question 40 of 40
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The soul is regarded as form of . . . . . . . .

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