PHILOSOPHY
Paper – III
Note : This paper contains seventy five (75) objective type questions of two (2) marks each.
All questions are compulsory
Dec 2014
1. By what sannikar a do we perceive all the members of a class according to the Nyāya ?
(A) Viśesanatā (B) Yogaja
(C) Samyoga (D) Sāmānyalaksana
Answer:(D)
2. Select the code that states the dravyas which are neither bhūta nor mūrta according to
the Vaiśe ikas :
(A) Akāśa, Kāla, Dik (B) Kāla, Dik, Ātman
(C) Dik, Ātman and Manas (D) Akāśa, Ātman, Kāla
Answer:(B)
3. Which one among the following is not a nityadravya in Vaiśe ika metaphysics ?
(A) Paramā u (B) Dvya uka
(C) Kāla (D) Manas
Answer:(B)
4. Consider Set – I and Set – II and select the code correctly matched following Vaiśe ika
metaphysics.
Set – I Set – II
a. Parasāmānya i. Dravyatva
b. Aparasāmānya ii. Indriyatva
c. Parāparasāmānya iii. Sattā
d. Upādhi iv. Ghatatva
Codes :
a b c d
Answer:(B)
5. Select the relation through which Brahman is related to cit and acit according to
Rāmānuja.
(A) Tādātmya (B) Samavāya
(C) Svarūpa (D) Aprthaksiddhi
(A) ii iii i iv
(B) iii iv i ii
(C) i iv iii ii
(D) iv i ii iii
Answer:(D)
6. Consider the following Assertion (A) and Reason (R) and select the correct code :
Assertion (A) : Trya uka must have parts (dvya uka)
Reason (R) : Whatever is visible must have parts viz. a pot.
Codes :
(A) (A) is true, but (R) is not and (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
(B) (A) is true, but (R) is not and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
(C) (A) and (R) both are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
(D) (A) and (R) both are true and (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
Answer:(C)
7. Which of the following are acceptable to Aristotle ?
(a) Different types of living beings have different types of soul.
(b) Soul is the form of a living body.
(c) The soul can exist apart from the body.
(d) The rational part of the soul is not fully developed in
some human beings.
Codes :
(A) (a) and (b) (B) (b) and (c)
(C) (a), (b) and (c) (D) (a), (b) and (d)
Answer:(D)
8. ‘No two substances can resemble each other entirely’ is supported by
(A) Leibnitz only (B) Spinoza only
(C) Leibnitz and Descartes (D) Leibnitz and Spinoza
Answer:(D)
9. ‘Personal identity consists in the sameness of consciousness’ is the
view supported by
(A) Descartes (B) Berkeley
(C) Kant (D) Locke
Answer:(D)
10. Match List – I with List – II and choose the correct answer with
the help of codes given below :
List – I List – II
(Philosophers) (Views about objects)
a. Descartes i. A collection of ideas
b. Spinoza ii. An extended substance
c. Leibnitz iii. A mode
d. Berkeley iv. An aggregate of spiritual atoms
Codes :
a b c d
(A) ii i iii iv
(B) i iii ii iv
(C) ii iii iv i
(D) ii iv i iii
Answer:(C)
11. Which one of the following is not acceptable to Kant ?
(A) Space and Time are a priori.
(B) Space and Time are not general concepts.
(C) Space and Time are transcendentally ideal.
(D) Space and Time are not empirically real.
Answer:(D)
12. Anvitābhidhānavāda is related to
(A) Kumārila (B) Prabhākara
(C) Jaimini (D) Gautam
Answer:(B)
13. The theory of error accepted by Kumārila is
(A) Satkhyāti (B) Asatkhyāti
(C) Ātmakhyāti (D) Anyathākhyāti
Answer:(D)
14. According to Advaita Vedānta, when we perceive snake in a rope, then
(A) the snake is unreal.
(B) the snake is real.
(C) the snake is neither real nor unreal.
(D) none of the above.
Answer:(C)
15. Match List – I with List – II and select your answer from the codes given below :
List – I List – II
a. Sāmkhya i. Paratahprāmānya Paratahaprāmānya
b. Buddhism ii. Svatahprāmānya Svatahaprāmānya
c. Nyāya-Vaiśesika iii. Paratahprāmānya Svatahaprāmānya
d. Mimāmsā iv. Svatahprāmānya Paratahaprāmānya
Codes :
a b c d
(A) i ii iii iv
(B) ii iii i iv
(C) iv iii ii i
(D) iii ii i iv
Answer:(B)
16. Perceptual knowledge is that which is not preceded by some other knowledge.
This view
is accepted by
(A) Mimāmsakas (B) Naiyāyikas
(C) Jains (D) Grammarians
Answer:(B)
17. According to Nyāya illusion is based on one of the following
kinds of perception :
(A) Sāmānyalaksana (B) Jñānalaksana
(C) Yogaja (D) Nirvikalpaka
Answer:(B)
18. According to Locke knowledge consists in
(A) Agreement between ideas
(B) Disagreement between ideas
(C) Perception of agreement or disagreement between ideas and objects
(D) Perception of agreement or disagreement between ideas
Answer:(D)
19. Match List – I with List – II and choose the correct answer with the help of codes given
below :
List – I List – II
(Philosophers) (Distinctions)
a. Hume i. Possibility, Compossibility
b. Leibnitz ii. Knowledge by acquaintance,
Knowledge by description.
c. Russell iii. Knowing that, Knowing how
d. Ryle iv. Antecedent scepticism,
Consequent scepticism
Codes :
a b c d
(A) i iv iii ii
(B) iv i ii iii
(C) iii iv ii i
(D) i ii iii iv
Answer:(B)
20. Select the correct option by considering Assertion (A) and Reason (R) given below :
Assertion (A) : Quine rejects radical reductionism of empiricists.
Reason (R) : Our statements about the external world face the tribunal of sense
experience as a collective body.
Codes :
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
Answer:(A)
21. ‘Empiricists are like ants; they collect and put to use; but rationalists
like spiders, spin threads out of themselves’ was said by
(A) Locke (B) Bacon
(C) Berkeley (D) Ayer
Answer:(B)
22. Which one of the following is acceptable to both Descartes and Locke ?
(A) We know the objects directly through perception.
(B) Memory is the criterion of personal identity.
(C) Intuition and demonstration give us certain knowledge.
(D) Existence of God follows from the very idea of God.
Answer:(C)
23. “Pratyaksam kalpanāpodam nāmajātyādyāsamyutam ” this definition of
Pratyaksa is given by
(A) Dharmak rti (B) Di nāga
(C) Vasubandhu (D) Ratnakirti
Answer:(B)
24. Consider the Assertion (A) and the Reason (R) and select the correct code as given below
in the context of Nyāya Epistemology.
Assertion (A) : Sound is eternal.
Reason (R) : Sound is audible.
Codes :
(A) (A) is true, but (R) is false and (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
(B) (A) and (R) both are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
(C) (A) and (R) both are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
(D) (A) is false and (R) is false, but (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
Answer:(B)
25. “All things are eternal because they are knowable” – this argument commits the fallacy of
(A) Asādhāra a savyabhicāra
(B) Āśrayāsiddha
(C) Bādhita
(D) Anupasa hāri savyabhicāra
Answer:(D)
26. Select the correct sequence :
(A) Pratijñā, hetu, upanaya, udāhara a
(B) Pratijñā, hetu, nigamana, upanaya
(C) Pratijñā, hetu, udāhara a, upanaya
(D) Hetu, udāhara a, pratijñā, nigamana
Answer:(C)
27. According to Buddhists avinābhāva sa ba dha is based on
(A) Tādātmaya, Kāranatā, Nisedha
(B) Tādātmaya, Niyat Sāhcarya, Nisedha
(C) Kāranatā, Nisedha, Niyat Sāhcarya
(D) Nisedha, Niyat Sāhcarya, Kāranatā
Answer:(A)
28. According to the Buddhists which option states about the kinds of perception ?
(A) Indriyavijñāna, Manovijñāna, Sāmānyalaksana, Yogijñāna
(B) Manovijñāna, Sva-Samvedana, Indriyavijñāna, Jñānalaksana
(C) Sva-Sanvedana, Manovijñāna, Yogijñāna, Jñānalaksana
(D) Indriyavijñāna, Manovijñāna, Sva-Sanvedana, Yogijñāna
Answer:(D)
29. Loka Sa graha means
(A) Actions for the benefit of the liberated souls.
(B) Actions for the benefit of humanity.
(C) Actions for attaining liberation.
(D) None of the above.
Answer:(B)
30. Consider Assertion (A) and Reason (R) in the context of Gita and
mark the correct code : Assertion (A) : One should follow Swadharma
Reason (R) : This produces happiness.
Codes :
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
(C) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
(D) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
Answer:(B)
31. Match the List – I with List – II and choose correct answer from the code given below :
List – I List – II
(Authors) (Texts)
a. Śa kara i. Nyāya Ma jari
b. ayarāsi Bhatta ii. Tattva Kaumudi
c. ayanta Bhatta iii. Brahma Sūtra
d. Vacaspati Mishra iv. Tattvopaplavasingh
Codes :
a b c d
(A) i iii iv ii
(B) iii iv i ii
(C) ii i iv iii
(D) iv iii i ii
Answer:(B)
32. Which one of the following is known as ‘T śara a’ according to Bauddhism ?
(A) Darśana, jñāna, Caritra
(B) Maitri, Karunā, Muditā
(C) Śravana, Manana, Nididhyāsana
(D) Buddha, Dhamma, Sangha
Answer:(D)
33. Bhagavadgitā has been consider as the most important work due to
(A) Harmonious philosophy of life.
(B) Synthesis of Action, Devotion and knowledge.
(C) Moral teaching
(D) All of the above
Answer:(D)
34. Which one is the correct sequence of the following ?
(A) Ksipta, Viksipta, Mūdha
(B) Ksipta, Mūdha, Viksipta
(C) Ksipta, Viksipta, Ekāgra
(D) Viksipta, Mūdha, Ekāgra
Answer:(B)
35. Which one of the following holds that ‘The Political powers are
the highest court of appeal in the matters of morality’ ?
(A) Spencer (B) Mill
(C) Kant (D) Hobbes
Answer:(D)
36. Match the List – I with List – II and choose correct
answer from the code given below :
List – I List – II
a. Kant i. Golden means
b. Hegel ii. Cordinal virtue
c. Plato iii. Categorical imperative
d. Aristotle iv. Die to live
Codes :
a b c d
(A) i ii iii iv
(B) i iii iv ii
(C) iii iv ii i
(D) iv i iii ii
Answer:(C)
37. Which one among the following holds that ‘Man is the measure
of all things’ ?
(A) Zeno (B) Protagoras
(C) Aristotle (D) Plato
Answer:(B)
38. Which one of the following distinguishes Indian ethics from
Western ethics ?
(A) The concept of Purūsārtha
(B) The concept of Varna and Āśrama
(C) The concept of non-violence
(D) The concept of reward and punishment
Answer:(D)
39. ‘Consequence of action is the basis of moral Judgment.’ Which
one of the following holds
this view ?
(A) Hedonist (B) Intuitionist
(C) Rigorist (D) Idealist
Answer:(A)
40. Which one of the following thinkers has considered Justice to be as
a ‘Cordinal Virtue’ ?
(A) Sophist (B) Aristippus
(C) Bentham (D) Plato
Answer:(D)
41. Match the List – I with List – II and choose correct answer from the
codes given below :
List – I List – II
a. Emotivism i. Kant
b. Prescriptivism ii. Mill
c. Utilitarianism iii. Ayer
d. Rationalism iv. Hare
Codes :
a b c d
(A) i ii iii iv
(B) i iii ii iv
(C) iii iv ii i
(D) iv ii i iii
Answer:(C)
42. Match List – I with List – II and choose the correct answer with the
help of codes given
below :
List – I List – II
a. Liberal Feminism i. Simone de Beauvoir
b. Marxist Feminism ii. Mary Wollostonecraft
c. Existianlist Feminism iii. Juliet Mitchell
d. Socialist Feminism iv. Friedrich Engels
Codes :
a b c d
(A) ii iv i iii
(B) i iii iv ii
(C) iii ii i iv
(D) i iii ii iv
Answer:(A)
43. Match List – I with List – II with regard to Human Rights
Conventions and mark the
correct code.
List – I List – II
a. Universal Declaration of Human Rights i. 2006
b. Convention on the Rights of Child ii. 1979
c. Convention on the Rights of persons with disabilities iii. 1948
d. Convention on the elimination of all forms of iv. 1989
discrimination against women
Codes :
i ii iii iv
(A) d a c b
(B) c d a b
(C) b c a d
(D) d c a b
Answer:(B)
44. Who among the following did not criticise the concept of human
rights in one form or the
other ?
(A) Friedrich Nietzshe (B) Edmund Burke
(C) Jeremy Bentham (D) None of the above
Answer:(D)
45. The popular slogan of Carol Hanisch “The personal is political”
is often understood to be
synonymous with
(A) First wave feminism (B) Third wave feminism
(C) Post feminism (D) Second wave feminism
Answer:(D)
46. If the major premise in the first figure is an I
proposition then the fallacy is known as
(A) Undistributed Middle or Illicit Major
(B) Illicit Major or Illicit Minor
(C) Fallacy of four terms or Undistributed Middle
(D) Illicit Minor or Undistributed Middle
Answer:(A)
47. Inductive generalization is based
(A) only upon experience
(B) only upon generalization
(C) only upon uniformity of nature
(D) upon all stated above
Answer:(D)
48. Which one is not a rule of inference ?
(A) Modus Ponens (B) Commutation
(C) Simplification (D) Addition
Answer:(B)
50. The denotation of a term is
(A) Its extension (B) Its quality
(C) Both of these (D) None of these
Answer:(A)
51. Which one of the following options is a suggestion of a deductive argument ?
(A) It cannot be that premises are true, but conclusion is false.
(B) It can be that the premises are not in accordance with the conclusion.
(C) Such arguments are neither valid nor invalid
(D) None of the above
Answer:(A)
52. Mark the option which is not correct.
(A) In a truth functional statement if antecedent and consequent both are true, the
statement is true.
(B) In a truth functional statement if antecedent is true and consequent is false, the
statement is true.
(C) In a truth functional statement if the antecedent and consequent both are false, then
the statement is true.
(D) In a truth functional statement if the antecedent is true and consequent is false, the
statement is false.
Answer:(B)
57. The doctrine ‘God within man’ is accepted by
(A) Ramanuja and Kabir
(B) Kabir and Guru Nanak
(C) Guru Nanak and Ramakrishna
(D) All of the above
Answer:(D)
58. Read following options and select the correct sequence of dependent
origination as per Buddhism.
(A) Samskāra, Vijñāna, Nāma-rūpa, Sadāyatana, Sparśa
(B) Samskāra, Sparśa, Nāma-rūpa, Vijñāna, Sadāyatana
(C) Samskāra, Vijñāna, Nāma-rūpa, Sparśa, Sadāyatana
(D) Sparśa, Samskāra, Vijñāna, Nāma-rūpa, Sadāyatana
Answer:(A)
59. Following are the names of Ten Gurus of Sikhism. Select the option having correct
sequence of Gurus from 1st to 10th
:
(A) Guru Nanak, Guru Angad, Guru Amar Das, Guru Ram Das, Guru Hargobind, Guru
Arjan Dev, Guru Hari Rai, Guru Hari Krishan, Guru Teg Bahadur, Guru Gobind
Singh.
(B) Guru Nanak, Guru Angad, Guru Amar Das, Guru Ram Das, Guru Arjan Dev, Guru
Hargobind, Guru Hari Rai, Guru Hari Krishnan, Guru Teg Bahadur, Guru Gobind
Singh.
(C) Guru Nanak, Guru Angad, Guru Ram Das, Guru Amar Das, Guru Hargobind, Guru
Arjan Dev, Guru Hari Rai, Guru Hari Krishan, Guru Teg Bahadur, Guru Gobind
Singh.
(D) Guru Nanak, Guru Angad, Guru Amar Das, Guru Ram Das, Guru Arjan Dev, Guru
Hargobind, Guru Hari Krishan, Guru Hari Rai, Guru Teg Bahadur, Guru Gobind
Singh.
Answer:(B)
60. Who among the following holds the view that the concept of a
person is ‘primitive’ ?
(A) Descartes (B) Ayer
(C) Austin (D) Strawson
Answer:(D)
61. Consider the following statements with regard to John Dewey and mark
the correct code :
(a) Dewey criticised Cartesian notion of self.
(b) Dewey argued that self is a product of social practices.
(c) Dewey’s work ‘pragmatism’ is the foundation for pragmatist philosophy.
Codes :
(A) Only (a) is true.
(B) Only (b) is true.
(C) (a), (b) and (c) are true.
(D) Only (a) and (b) are true
Answer:(D)
62. Match List – I with List – II and mark the correct code.
List – I List – II
a. Ryle i. Speech Acts
b. Searle ii. How to do things with words
c. Davidson iii. Concept of Mind
d. Austin iv. Inquiries into truth and interpretation
Codes :
a b c d
(A) ii i iii iv
(B) iii i iv ii
(C) iv ii iii i
(D) iii i ii iv
Answer:(B)
63. Who among the following is not a part of hermeneutic tradition ?
(a) Hans-George Gadamer
(b) Friedrich Schleiermacher
(c) Wilhelm Dilthey
(d) Wittgenstein
Codes :
(A) Only (d) and (a)
(B) Only (c) and (a)
(C) Only (b)
(D) Only (d)
Answer:(D)
64. Which of the following works are not written by
Edmund Husserl ?
(a) Logical Investigations
(b) Ideas for a Pure Phenomenology
(c) Cartesian Meditations
(d) Transcendental Phenomenology and the Crisis of the
European Sciences
Codes :
(A) Only (c)
(B) Only (c) and (d)
(C) Only (b), (c) and (d)
(D) None of the above
Answer:(D)
65. Which one of the following has made a distinction between
‘pour-soi’ and ‘en-soi’ ?
(A) Heidegger (B) Schleiermacher
(C) Sartre (D) Wilhelm Dilthey
Answer:(C)
66. The first systematic expounder of Advaita Vedānta is
(A) Śamkara (B) Rāmānuja
(C) Gaudapāda (D) Padmapāda
Answer:(C)
67. ‘Brahman is self luminous, so Māyā cannot conceal Brahman’ is proved by
(A) Āśrayānupapatti (B) Tirodhānānupapatti
(C) Nivartakānupapatti (D) Swarūpānupapatti
Answer:(B)
68. Which one of the following theories is not accepted by
Advaita Vedānta ?
(A) Pratibimbavāda (B) Avacchedavāda
(C) Ābhāsavāda (D) A śavāda
Answer:(D)
69. The spirit of Gandhian concept of ‘Swadeshi’ implies
(A) Only using that which is produced by one self.
(B) Absolutely denying foreign goods.
(C) Restricting to use services of immediate surrounding.
(D) Not going beyond native production.
Answer:(A)
70. During which movement the concept of national education
was propounded ?
(A) Quit India (B) Home Rule
(C) Non-cooperation (D) Swadeshi
Answer:(D)
71. When did Gandhi use his Satyāgrah technique for the first time ?
(A) Khera (B) Dandi
(C) Champaran (D) Ahmedabad
Answer:(C)
72. ‘All the wealth belongs to God and those who hold it are trustees
not possessor’ was stated by
(A) Tolstoy (B) Vinoba Bhave
(C) Gandhi (D) Tilak
Answer:(C)
73. ‘A performative utterance is used to perform an action. To issue
such an utterance is to perform the action.’ This is the view of
(A) Searle (B) Wittgenstein
(C) Frege (D) Austin
Answer:(D)
74. Who among the following holds the view that moral terms
have a ‘magnetism’ and a
moral judgement has both descriptive and emotive meaning ?
(A) Ayer (B) Prichard
(C) Stevenson (D) Hume
Answer:(C)
75. ‘My station and its duties’ is stated by
(A) Hegel (B) Bradley
(C) Mill (D) Moore
Answer:(B)
Paper – III
Note : This paper contains seventy five (75) objective type questions of two (2) marks each.
All questions are compulsory
Dec 2014
1. By what sannikar a do we perceive all the members of a class according to the Nyāya ?
(A) Viśesanatā (B) Yogaja
(C) Samyoga (D) Sāmānyalaksana
Answer:(D)
2. Select the code that states the dravyas which are neither bhūta nor mūrta according to
the Vaiśe ikas :
(A) Akāśa, Kāla, Dik (B) Kāla, Dik, Ātman
(C) Dik, Ātman and Manas (D) Akāśa, Ātman, Kāla
Answer:(B)
3. Which one among the following is not a nityadravya in Vaiśe ika metaphysics ?
(A) Paramā u (B) Dvya uka
(C) Kāla (D) Manas
Answer:(B)
4. Consider Set – I and Set – II and select the code correctly matched following Vaiśe ika
metaphysics.
Set – I Set – II
a. Parasāmānya i. Dravyatva
b. Aparasāmānya ii. Indriyatva
c. Parāparasāmānya iii. Sattā
d. Upādhi iv. Ghatatva
Codes :
a b c d
Answer:(B)
5. Select the relation through which Brahman is related to cit and acit according to
Rāmānuja.
(A) Tādātmya (B) Samavāya
(C) Svarūpa (D) Aprthaksiddhi
(A) ii iii i iv
(B) iii iv i ii
(C) i iv iii ii
(D) iv i ii iii
Answer:(D)
6. Consider the following Assertion (A) and Reason (R) and select the correct code :
Assertion (A) : Trya uka must have parts (dvya uka)
Reason (R) : Whatever is visible must have parts viz. a pot.
Codes :
(A) (A) is true, but (R) is not and (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
(B) (A) is true, but (R) is not and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
(C) (A) and (R) both are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
(D) (A) and (R) both are true and (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
Answer:(C)
7. Which of the following are acceptable to Aristotle ?
(a) Different types of living beings have different types of soul.
(b) Soul is the form of a living body.
(c) The soul can exist apart from the body.
(d) The rational part of the soul is not fully developed in
some human beings.
Codes :
(A) (a) and (b) (B) (b) and (c)
(C) (a), (b) and (c) (D) (a), (b) and (d)
Answer:(D)
8. ‘No two substances can resemble each other entirely’ is supported by
(A) Leibnitz only (B) Spinoza only
(C) Leibnitz and Descartes (D) Leibnitz and Spinoza
Answer:(D)
9. ‘Personal identity consists in the sameness of consciousness’ is the
view supported by
(A) Descartes (B) Berkeley
(C) Kant (D) Locke
Answer:(D)
10. Match List – I with List – II and choose the correct answer with
the help of codes given below :
List – I List – II
(Philosophers) (Views about objects)
a. Descartes i. A collection of ideas
b. Spinoza ii. An extended substance
c. Leibnitz iii. A mode
d. Berkeley iv. An aggregate of spiritual atoms
Codes :
a b c d
(A) ii i iii iv
(B) i iii ii iv
(C) ii iii iv i
(D) ii iv i iii
Answer:(C)
11. Which one of the following is not acceptable to Kant ?
(A) Space and Time are a priori.
(B) Space and Time are not general concepts.
(C) Space and Time are transcendentally ideal.
(D) Space and Time are not empirically real.
Answer:(D)
12. Anvitābhidhānavāda is related to
(A) Kumārila (B) Prabhākara
(C) Jaimini (D) Gautam
Answer:(B)
13. The theory of error accepted by Kumārila is
(A) Satkhyāti (B) Asatkhyāti
(C) Ātmakhyāti (D) Anyathākhyāti
Answer:(D)
14. According to Advaita Vedānta, when we perceive snake in a rope, then
(A) the snake is unreal.
(B) the snake is real.
(C) the snake is neither real nor unreal.
(D) none of the above.
Answer:(C)
15. Match List – I with List – II and select your answer from the codes given below :
List – I List – II
a. Sāmkhya i. Paratahprāmānya Paratahaprāmānya
b. Buddhism ii. Svatahprāmānya Svatahaprāmānya
c. Nyāya-Vaiśesika iii. Paratahprāmānya Svatahaprāmānya
d. Mimāmsā iv. Svatahprāmānya Paratahaprāmānya
Codes :
a b c d
(A) i ii iii iv
(B) ii iii i iv
(C) iv iii ii i
(D) iii ii i iv
Answer:(B)
16. Perceptual knowledge is that which is not preceded by some other knowledge.
This view
is accepted by
(A) Mimāmsakas (B) Naiyāyikas
(C) Jains (D) Grammarians
Answer:(B)
17. According to Nyāya illusion is based on one of the following
kinds of perception :
(A) Sāmānyalaksana (B) Jñānalaksana
(C) Yogaja (D) Nirvikalpaka
Answer:(B)
18. According to Locke knowledge consists in
(A) Agreement between ideas
(B) Disagreement between ideas
(C) Perception of agreement or disagreement between ideas and objects
(D) Perception of agreement or disagreement between ideas
Answer:(D)
19. Match List – I with List – II and choose the correct answer with the help of codes given
below :
List – I List – II
(Philosophers) (Distinctions)
a. Hume i. Possibility, Compossibility
b. Leibnitz ii. Knowledge by acquaintance,
Knowledge by description.
c. Russell iii. Knowing that, Knowing how
d. Ryle iv. Antecedent scepticism,
Consequent scepticism
Codes :
a b c d
(A) i iv iii ii
(B) iv i ii iii
(C) iii iv ii i
(D) i ii iii iv
Answer:(B)
20. Select the correct option by considering Assertion (A) and Reason (R) given below :
Assertion (A) : Quine rejects radical reductionism of empiricists.
Reason (R) : Our statements about the external world face the tribunal of sense
experience as a collective body.
Codes :
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
Answer:(A)
21. ‘Empiricists are like ants; they collect and put to use; but rationalists
like spiders, spin threads out of themselves’ was said by
(A) Locke (B) Bacon
(C) Berkeley (D) Ayer
Answer:(B)
22. Which one of the following is acceptable to both Descartes and Locke ?
(A) We know the objects directly through perception.
(B) Memory is the criterion of personal identity.
(C) Intuition and demonstration give us certain knowledge.
(D) Existence of God follows from the very idea of God.
Answer:(C)
23. “Pratyaksam kalpanāpodam nāmajātyādyāsamyutam ” this definition of
Pratyaksa is given by
(A) Dharmak rti (B) Di nāga
(C) Vasubandhu (D) Ratnakirti
Answer:(B)
24. Consider the Assertion (A) and the Reason (R) and select the correct code as given below
in the context of Nyāya Epistemology.
Assertion (A) : Sound is eternal.
Reason (R) : Sound is audible.
Codes :
(A) (A) is true, but (R) is false and (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
(B) (A) and (R) both are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
(C) (A) and (R) both are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
(D) (A) is false and (R) is false, but (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
Answer:(B)
25. “All things are eternal because they are knowable” – this argument commits the fallacy of
(A) Asādhāra a savyabhicāra
(B) Āśrayāsiddha
(C) Bādhita
(D) Anupasa hāri savyabhicāra
Answer:(D)
26. Select the correct sequence :
(A) Pratijñā, hetu, upanaya, udāhara a
(B) Pratijñā, hetu, nigamana, upanaya
(C) Pratijñā, hetu, udāhara a, upanaya
(D) Hetu, udāhara a, pratijñā, nigamana
Answer:(C)
27. According to Buddhists avinābhāva sa ba dha is based on
(A) Tādātmaya, Kāranatā, Nisedha
(B) Tādātmaya, Niyat Sāhcarya, Nisedha
(C) Kāranatā, Nisedha, Niyat Sāhcarya
(D) Nisedha, Niyat Sāhcarya, Kāranatā
Answer:(A)
28. According to the Buddhists which option states about the kinds of perception ?
(A) Indriyavijñāna, Manovijñāna, Sāmānyalaksana, Yogijñāna
(B) Manovijñāna, Sva-Samvedana, Indriyavijñāna, Jñānalaksana
(C) Sva-Sanvedana, Manovijñāna, Yogijñāna, Jñānalaksana
(D) Indriyavijñāna, Manovijñāna, Sva-Sanvedana, Yogijñāna
Answer:(D)
29. Loka Sa graha means
(A) Actions for the benefit of the liberated souls.
(B) Actions for the benefit of humanity.
(C) Actions for attaining liberation.
(D) None of the above.
Answer:(B)
30. Consider Assertion (A) and Reason (R) in the context of Gita and
mark the correct code : Assertion (A) : One should follow Swadharma
Reason (R) : This produces happiness.
Codes :
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
(C) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
(D) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
Answer:(B)
31. Match the List – I with List – II and choose correct answer from the code given below :
List – I List – II
(Authors) (Texts)
a. Śa kara i. Nyāya Ma jari
b. ayarāsi Bhatta ii. Tattva Kaumudi
c. ayanta Bhatta iii. Brahma Sūtra
d. Vacaspati Mishra iv. Tattvopaplavasingh
Codes :
a b c d
(A) i iii iv ii
(B) iii iv i ii
(C) ii i iv iii
(D) iv iii i ii
Answer:(B)
32. Which one of the following is known as ‘T śara a’ according to Bauddhism ?
(A) Darśana, jñāna, Caritra
(B) Maitri, Karunā, Muditā
(C) Śravana, Manana, Nididhyāsana
(D) Buddha, Dhamma, Sangha
Answer:(D)
33. Bhagavadgitā has been consider as the most important work due to
(A) Harmonious philosophy of life.
(B) Synthesis of Action, Devotion and knowledge.
(C) Moral teaching
(D) All of the above
Answer:(D)
34. Which one is the correct sequence of the following ?
(A) Ksipta, Viksipta, Mūdha
(B) Ksipta, Mūdha, Viksipta
(C) Ksipta, Viksipta, Ekāgra
(D) Viksipta, Mūdha, Ekāgra
Answer:(B)
35. Which one of the following holds that ‘The Political powers are
the highest court of appeal in the matters of morality’ ?
(A) Spencer (B) Mill
(C) Kant (D) Hobbes
Answer:(D)
36. Match the List – I with List – II and choose correct
answer from the code given below :
List – I List – II
a. Kant i. Golden means
b. Hegel ii. Cordinal virtue
c. Plato iii. Categorical imperative
d. Aristotle iv. Die to live
Codes :
a b c d
(A) i ii iii iv
(B) i iii iv ii
(C) iii iv ii i
(D) iv i iii ii
Answer:(C)
37. Which one among the following holds that ‘Man is the measure
of all things’ ?
(A) Zeno (B) Protagoras
(C) Aristotle (D) Plato
Answer:(B)
38. Which one of the following distinguishes Indian ethics from
Western ethics ?
(A) The concept of Purūsārtha
(B) The concept of Varna and Āśrama
(C) The concept of non-violence
(D) The concept of reward and punishment
Answer:(D)
39. ‘Consequence of action is the basis of moral Judgment.’ Which
one of the following holds
this view ?
(A) Hedonist (B) Intuitionist
(C) Rigorist (D) Idealist
Answer:(A)
40. Which one of the following thinkers has considered Justice to be as
a ‘Cordinal Virtue’ ?
(A) Sophist (B) Aristippus
(C) Bentham (D) Plato
Answer:(D)
41. Match the List – I with List – II and choose correct answer from the
codes given below :
List – I List – II
a. Emotivism i. Kant
b. Prescriptivism ii. Mill
c. Utilitarianism iii. Ayer
d. Rationalism iv. Hare
Codes :
a b c d
(A) i ii iii iv
(B) i iii ii iv
(C) iii iv ii i
(D) iv ii i iii
Answer:(C)
42. Match List – I with List – II and choose the correct answer with the
help of codes given
below :
List – I List – II
a. Liberal Feminism i. Simone de Beauvoir
b. Marxist Feminism ii. Mary Wollostonecraft
c. Existianlist Feminism iii. Juliet Mitchell
d. Socialist Feminism iv. Friedrich Engels
Codes :
a b c d
(A) ii iv i iii
(B) i iii iv ii
(C) iii ii i iv
(D) i iii ii iv
Answer:(A)
43. Match List – I with List – II with regard to Human Rights
Conventions and mark the
correct code.
List – I List – II
a. Universal Declaration of Human Rights i. 2006
b. Convention on the Rights of Child ii. 1979
c. Convention on the Rights of persons with disabilities iii. 1948
d. Convention on the elimination of all forms of iv. 1989
discrimination against women
Codes :
i ii iii iv
(A) d a c b
(B) c d a b
(C) b c a d
(D) d c a b
Answer:(B)
44. Who among the following did not criticise the concept of human
rights in one form or the
other ?
(A) Friedrich Nietzshe (B) Edmund Burke
(C) Jeremy Bentham (D) None of the above
Answer:(D)
45. The popular slogan of Carol Hanisch “The personal is political”
is often understood to be
synonymous with
(A) First wave feminism (B) Third wave feminism
(C) Post feminism (D) Second wave feminism
Answer:(D)
46. If the major premise in the first figure is an I
proposition then the fallacy is known as
(A) Undistributed Middle or Illicit Major
(B) Illicit Major or Illicit Minor
(C) Fallacy of four terms or Undistributed Middle
(D) Illicit Minor or Undistributed Middle
Answer:(A)
47. Inductive generalization is based
(A) only upon experience
(B) only upon generalization
(C) only upon uniformity of nature
(D) upon all stated above
Answer:(D)
48. Which one is not a rule of inference ?
(A) Modus Ponens (B) Commutation
(C) Simplification (D) Addition
Answer:(B)
50. The denotation of a term is
(A) Its extension (B) Its quality
(C) Both of these (D) None of these
Answer:(A)
51. Which one of the following options is a suggestion of a deductive argument ?
(A) It cannot be that premises are true, but conclusion is false.
(B) It can be that the premises are not in accordance with the conclusion.
(C) Such arguments are neither valid nor invalid
(D) None of the above
Answer:(A)
52. Mark the option which is not correct.
(A) In a truth functional statement if antecedent and consequent both are true, the
statement is true.
(B) In a truth functional statement if antecedent is true and consequent is false, the
statement is true.
(C) In a truth functional statement if the antecedent and consequent both are false, then
the statement is true.
(D) In a truth functional statement if the antecedent is true and consequent is false, the
statement is false.
Answer:(B)
57. The doctrine ‘God within man’ is accepted by
(A) Ramanuja and Kabir
(B) Kabir and Guru Nanak
(C) Guru Nanak and Ramakrishna
(D) All of the above
Answer:(D)
58. Read following options and select the correct sequence of dependent
origination as per Buddhism.
(A) Samskāra, Vijñāna, Nāma-rūpa, Sadāyatana, Sparśa
(B) Samskāra, Sparśa, Nāma-rūpa, Vijñāna, Sadāyatana
(C) Samskāra, Vijñāna, Nāma-rūpa, Sparśa, Sadāyatana
(D) Sparśa, Samskāra, Vijñāna, Nāma-rūpa, Sadāyatana
Answer:(A)
59. Following are the names of Ten Gurus of Sikhism. Select the option having correct
sequence of Gurus from 1st to 10th
:
(A) Guru Nanak, Guru Angad, Guru Amar Das, Guru Ram Das, Guru Hargobind, Guru
Arjan Dev, Guru Hari Rai, Guru Hari Krishan, Guru Teg Bahadur, Guru Gobind
Singh.
(B) Guru Nanak, Guru Angad, Guru Amar Das, Guru Ram Das, Guru Arjan Dev, Guru
Hargobind, Guru Hari Rai, Guru Hari Krishnan, Guru Teg Bahadur, Guru Gobind
Singh.
(C) Guru Nanak, Guru Angad, Guru Ram Das, Guru Amar Das, Guru Hargobind, Guru
Arjan Dev, Guru Hari Rai, Guru Hari Krishan, Guru Teg Bahadur, Guru Gobind
Singh.
(D) Guru Nanak, Guru Angad, Guru Amar Das, Guru Ram Das, Guru Arjan Dev, Guru
Hargobind, Guru Hari Krishan, Guru Hari Rai, Guru Teg Bahadur, Guru Gobind
Singh.
Answer:(B)
60. Who among the following holds the view that the concept of a
person is ‘primitive’ ?
(A) Descartes (B) Ayer
(C) Austin (D) Strawson
Answer:(D)
61. Consider the following statements with regard to John Dewey and mark
the correct code :
(a) Dewey criticised Cartesian notion of self.
(b) Dewey argued that self is a product of social practices.
(c) Dewey’s work ‘pragmatism’ is the foundation for pragmatist philosophy.
Codes :
(A) Only (a) is true.
(B) Only (b) is true.
(C) (a), (b) and (c) are true.
(D) Only (a) and (b) are true
Answer:(D)
62. Match List – I with List – II and mark the correct code.
List – I List – II
a. Ryle i. Speech Acts
b. Searle ii. How to do things with words
c. Davidson iii. Concept of Mind
d. Austin iv. Inquiries into truth and interpretation
Codes :
a b c d
(A) ii i iii iv
(B) iii i iv ii
(C) iv ii iii i
(D) iii i ii iv
Answer:(B)
63. Who among the following is not a part of hermeneutic tradition ?
(a) Hans-George Gadamer
(b) Friedrich Schleiermacher
(c) Wilhelm Dilthey
(d) Wittgenstein
Codes :
(A) Only (d) and (a)
(B) Only (c) and (a)
(C) Only (b)
(D) Only (d)
Answer:(D)
64. Which of the following works are not written by
Edmund Husserl ?
(a) Logical Investigations
(b) Ideas for a Pure Phenomenology
(c) Cartesian Meditations
(d) Transcendental Phenomenology and the Crisis of the
European Sciences
Codes :
(A) Only (c)
(B) Only (c) and (d)
(C) Only (b), (c) and (d)
(D) None of the above
Answer:(D)
65. Which one of the following has made a distinction between
‘pour-soi’ and ‘en-soi’ ?
(A) Heidegger (B) Schleiermacher
(C) Sartre (D) Wilhelm Dilthey
Answer:(C)
66. The first systematic expounder of Advaita Vedānta is
(A) Śamkara (B) Rāmānuja
(C) Gaudapāda (D) Padmapāda
Answer:(C)
67. ‘Brahman is self luminous, so Māyā cannot conceal Brahman’ is proved by
(A) Āśrayānupapatti (B) Tirodhānānupapatti
(C) Nivartakānupapatti (D) Swarūpānupapatti
Answer:(B)
68. Which one of the following theories is not accepted by
Advaita Vedānta ?
(A) Pratibimbavāda (B) Avacchedavāda
(C) Ābhāsavāda (D) A śavāda
Answer:(D)
69. The spirit of Gandhian concept of ‘Swadeshi’ implies
(A) Only using that which is produced by one self.
(B) Absolutely denying foreign goods.
(C) Restricting to use services of immediate surrounding.
(D) Not going beyond native production.
Answer:(A)
70. During which movement the concept of national education
was propounded ?
(A) Quit India (B) Home Rule
(C) Non-cooperation (D) Swadeshi
Answer:(D)
71. When did Gandhi use his Satyāgrah technique for the first time ?
(A) Khera (B) Dandi
(C) Champaran (D) Ahmedabad
Answer:(C)
72. ‘All the wealth belongs to God and those who hold it are trustees
not possessor’ was stated by
(A) Tolstoy (B) Vinoba Bhave
(C) Gandhi (D) Tilak
Answer:(C)
73. ‘A performative utterance is used to perform an action. To issue
such an utterance is to perform the action.’ This is the view of
(A) Searle (B) Wittgenstein
(C) Frege (D) Austin
Answer:(D)
74. Who among the following holds the view that moral terms
have a ‘magnetism’ and a
moral judgement has both descriptive and emotive meaning ?
(A) Ayer (B) Prichard
(C) Stevenson (D) Hume
Answer:(C)
75. ‘My station and its duties’ is stated by
(A) Hegel (B) Bradley
(C) Mill (D) Moore
Answer:(B)