NET, IAS, State-SET (KSET, WBSET, MPSET, etc.), GATE, CUET, Olympiads etc.: Philosphy MCQs (Practice_Test 69 of 90)
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- Assertion (A) : According to Nyaya-Vaisesika, a universal cannot inhere in another universal.
- Reason (R) : Nyaya-Vaisesikas believe that both particulars and universals are eternal.
- Both A and R are individually true and R is the correct explanation of A
- Both A and R are individually true but R is not the correct explanation of A
- A is true but R is false
- A is false but R is true
- Assertion (R) : Action should be done as a sacrifice (yajna) being free from all attachments. Reason (R) : All actions other than the action done as sacrifice (yajna) cause bondage.
- Both A and R are individually true and R is the correct explanation of A
- Both A and R are individually true but R is not the correct explanation of A
- A is true but R is false
- A is false but R is true
- Assertion (A) : Kant՚s moral theory is merely formal.
- Reason (R) : It cannot determine what we should do in a particular situation.
- Both A and R are individually true and R is the correct explanation of A
- Both A and R are individually true but R is not the correct explanation of A
- A is true but R is false
- A is false but R is true
- Assertion (A) : According to Mill, the general happiness is a good to the aggregate.
- Reason (R) : Each person՚s happiness is a good to that person.
- Both A and R are individually true and R is the correct explanation of A
- Both A and R are individually true but R is not the correct explanation of A
- A is true but R is false
- A is false but R is true
- Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the code given below the Lists:
Table Supporting: NET, IAS, State-SET (KSET, WBSET, MPSET, Etc.) , GATE, CUET, Olympiads Etc. : Philosphy MCQs (Practice_Test 69 of 90) List-I (View) List-II (Philosopher) - Perception is that non-erroneous cognition which is produced by the sense-object contact
- Perception is direct cognition which is not derived through the instrumentality of any other cognition
- Perception is direct apprehension
- Perception is devoid of all thoughtconstructions
- Visvanatha
- Prabhakara
- Dingnaga
- Goutama
- A
- B
- C
- D
- 4
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 1
- 4
- 3
- 2
- 1
- 2
- 1
- 4
- 3
- Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the code given below the lists:
Table Supporting: NET, IAS, State-SET (KSET, WBSET, MPSET, Etc.) , GATE, CUET, Olympiads Etc. : Philosphy MCQs (Practice_Test 69 of 90) List-I (Theory) List-II (System) - Svasamvedana
- Anuvyavasaya
- Jnatalinganumeya
- Svayamprakasa
- Advaita Vedanta
- Buddhism
- Nyaya-Vaisesika
- Purva-Mimamsa
- A
- B
- C
- D
- 1
- 4
- 3
- 2
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 1
- 1
- 3
- 4
- 2
- 2
- 4
- 3
- 1
- Which one of the statements given below is not consistent with the Advaita epistemology of Sankara?
- ‘If the sruti contradicts reason, reason must be our guide for it is nearer our experience.’
- ‘Reason is the sole means of knowing truth and falsity.’
- ′ Even the statement that ′ intellect stands condemned ′ must be made by intellect itself.
- ‘Sruti is the final pramana (souce of knowledge) as it embodies revealed truths.’
- Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the code given below the Lists
Table Supporting: NET, IAS, State-SET (KSET, WBSET, MPSET, Etc.) , GATE, CUET, Olympiads Etc. : Philosphy MCQs (Practice_Test 69 of 90) List-I (Criterion) List-II (System) - Truth is that which conforms to fact
- Truth is consistency among other accepted ideas, things and judgments
- Anything which is clear and distinct must be held as true
- Truth is that which works
- Idealism
- Pragmatism
- Realism
- Cartesianism
- A
- B
- C
- D
- 4
- 2
- 3
- 1
- 3
- 1
- 4
- 2
- 4
- 1
- 3
- 2
- 3
- 2
- 4
- 1
- Which one of the following schools accepts the Coherence theory of Truth?
- Idealism
- Empiricism
- Realism
- Representationalism
- The ideal of ‘Knowledge for knowledge sake’ is not accepted by which one of the following theories?
- Correspondence theory of Truth
- Coherence theory of Truth
- Pragmatic theory of Truth
- Redundancy theory of Truth
- Consider the following statements on error:
- Error is sheer omission and not commission.
- Error is wrong synthesis of the presented and the represented objects.
- Error is superimposition of one thing over another.
- Which of the statements given above is/are valid as per Sankara՚s account of error?
- 1 only
- 2 and 3 only
- 3 only
- 1 and 2 only
- When one has an erroneous cognition of the form ‘This is silver’ while there actually is a shell, the error, according to Naiyayikas, consists of which one of the following?
- ‘Silver’ which is in one՚s mind, is cognized as being there outside the mind
- ‘Silver’ in fact, is not the qualifier of the subject ‘this’ but it is wrongly cognized to be so
- ‘Silver’ which actually is the object of memory, is not cognized to be so
- The shell-aspect of the object before me remains hidden, and the silveraspect becomes manifest
- Which one of the following reasons is not used by Descartes to make the mind-body distinction?
- Whereas I can doubt that my body exists, I cannot doubt that I myself exist
- I have a clear and distinct idea of myself as a thing that thinks
- I can clearly see that mind is indivisible while a physical object is divisible
- I am distinct from my body since I am present in my body as a sailor is present in a ship
- Which one of the following is not advocated by Spinoza?
- Individual minds are finite temporal modes of substance under the attribute of thought
- Individual bodies are finite temporal modes of substance under the attribute of extension
- Particular finite objects and minds are direct effects of the substance of God
- Each finite thing has its efficient cause in some other finite thing
- ‘The union of soul and body consists only in the perfect mutual agreement, purposely established by the order of first creation.’ Who among the following subscribed to the above view?
- Spinoza
- Descartes
- St. Augustine
- Leibniz