NET, IAS, State-SET (KSET, WBSET, MPSET, etc.), GATE, CUET, Olympiads etc.: Philosphy MCQs (Practice_Test 59 of 90)
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- Which one of the following is not the reason for CarvakaΥs denial of inference as pramana?
- The invariable concomitance cannot be proved among particulars
- Inference, if concerned with Samanyas, is an example of petitio principii
- The observed cases give no guarantee about unobserved cases
- Inference is of no use of the pursuit of worldly happiness
- The preception of all the pots through pontness residing in one pot is possible through the which kind of sense-object contact?
- Samanyalaksana
- Jnanalaksana
- Yogaja
- Samyukta-Samaveta-Samavaya
- Consider the following:
- Pratijna
- Hetu
- Nigamana
- Udaharana
- Upanaya
- What is the order of these of Naya
- Syllogism?
- 4 β 5 β 3 β 2 β 1
- 5 β 2 β 4 β 1 β 3
- 5 β 4 β 2 β 3 β 1
- 1 β 2 β 4 β 5 β 3
- Syllogism?
- Which one of the following is the correct statement? Buddhist logicians accept two and only two pramanas because according to them
- all other pramanas accepted by other are reducible to the two
- no other pramanas can give true cognition
- there are two and only two kinds of objects of pramanas
- Lord Buddha, the ultimate authority, advocate in his teaching only two pramanas.
- Which of the following statements are true of Buddhist Epistemology?
- Since all Buddhists accept the teaching of the Buddha authority is an independent source of valid knowledge for them.
- Although the Buddhists accept the teaching of the Buddha, authority is still not an independent source of valid knowledge in their epistemology.
- Inferred entities may also be perceived and perceived entities may also be inferred.
- Perceived entities cannot be inferred and inferred entities cannot also be perceived.
- Select the correct answer using the code given below:
- 1 and 3 only
- 2 and 4 only
- 1 and 4 only
- 2 and 3 only
- Which one of the following is not true according to Samkara?
- God is pure consciousness
- God is a self-conscious personality
- God is the efficient and material cause of the work
- God is transcendentally unreal (mithya)
- According to Russell, a theory of truth should be such that it makes truth a property wholly dependent upon the relation of beliefs to outside things. Which theory of truth satisfies this condition tile most?
- Coherence theory
- Correspondence theory
- Pragmatic theory
- Redundancy theory
- Who, among the following, supports the view that there are degrees of truth?
- Realists
- Idealists
- Positivists
- Agnostics
- Which one of the following is a consistent group with regard to the nature of truth?
- Hegel, Bradley, Joachim
- Locke, Berkeley, Hume
- James, Dewey, Locke
- Dewey, Schiller, Green
- If the Pragmatic Theory of Truth is accepted, which of the following statements will have to be accepted?
- Any key that successfully opens the lock, must be its true key.
- Since belief in God helps millions of people, it must be true.
- Rama must have visited South India because there are so many local records about it there
- Any key that cannot successfully open the lock, cannot be its true key
- Select the correct answer using the code given below:
- 3 and 4 only
- 1,2 and 4 only
- 2 and 3 only
- 1 and 3 only
- Identify the logical demand made on us by Anirvacaniya Khyati:
- Acceptance of the exhaustive classification of objects into real and unreal.
- Acceptance of the unreal as real.
- Agreeing that there are entities that are neither real nor unreal.
- Mistaking some real objects for some other real objects.
- Select the correct answer using the code given below:
- 1 and 2 only
- 2 and 4 only
- 4 only
- 3 only
- According to Nyaya, universals are
- impermanent
- non-real
- eternal
- both eternal and non-eternal
- Which of the following pairs is not correctly matched?
- Match Item 1: Objects divide themselves into classes, thinking things and physical objects
- Match Item 2: Objects are divided into mind and body
- Match Item 1: The qualities or affections are attributed to the objects
- Match Item 2: This is due to interaction between mind and body
- Match Item 1: The essence of mind is to simply think
- Match Item 2: The essence of body is simply to be extended
- Match Item 1: Direct and natural communication between mind and body is there
- Match Item 2: On the occasion of the body being stimulated, God arouses in the mind the appropriate sensation and response.
- Who, among the following, holds the view that as the concave and the convex everywhere accompany and involve each other, so thought and extension must be conjoined in a one-to-one correspondence?
- Descartes
- Berkeley
- Spinoza
- Leibnitz
- Which one of the following statements correctly defines the term panpsychism?
- Real is rational and the rational is real
- The vital impulse permeates everything that exists
- Everything in the universe has a mind, however undeveloped
- The universe is constituted by numerous persons