PHILOSOPHY
Paper – III
Note : This paper contains seventy five (75) objective type questions of two (2) marks each.
All questions are compulsory.
Sep 2013
1. The root cause of sufferings
according to Buddha is
(A) Janma (B) Duhkha
(C) Trisnā (D) Avidyā
Answer:(D)
2. The reference to Varna-dharma is
found first in
(A) Manusmriti
(B) Bhagavad Gita
(C) Ramayana
(D) Purusha-sukta
Answer:(D)
3. Which of the following Purusharthas
are included in Trivarga ?
(A) Artha, Kama, Moksa
(B) Artha, Dharma, Kama
(C) Moksa , Dharma, Kama
(D) Artha, Dharma,Moksa
Answer:(B)
4. Shila is
(A) Means to Prajñā
(B) A kind of Pāramitas
(C) Means to Punya
(D) All the above
Answer:(D)
5. According to ‘Antirepresentationalists’,
(A) picture and reality are
synonymous.
(B) there is an absolute picture of
reality.
(C) there is no one picture of
reality.
(D) there is no picture of reality.
Answer:(D)
6. According to Aristotle the three
kinds of soul are
(A) Ghost soul, animal soul, human
soul
(B) God soul, ghost soul, human
soul
(C) God soul, animal soul, plant
soul
(D) Plant soul, animal soul, human
soul
Answer:(D)
7. According to which of the following
“theory of truth for a formal language
could serve as a theory of meaning
for natural language” ?
(A) P.F. Strawson
(B) Ludwig Wittgenstein
(C) B. Russell
(D) Donald Davidson
Answer:(D)
8. Kant classifies categories of
understanding under four heads as
(A) quality, spirit, modality and
matter
(B) quantity, quality, relation and
modality
(C) substance, matter, spirit and
quality
(D) relation, spirit, substance and
quantity
Answer:(B)
9. Which one of the following is not
true of Heidegger’s Dasein ?
(A) It is essentially self-conscious.
(B) It is engaged with the world.
(C) It is always an actuality and not
possibility.
(D) It is always a possibility and
not an actuality
Answer:(C)
10. The proposition basic to idealism
which Moore rejects is
(A) Cogito-ergo-sum
(B) The thing in itself is non-
empirical
(C) esse est percipi
(D) ideas are no less real than
matter
Answer:(C)
11. The theory that objects are
permanent possibilities of sensations
is called
(A) Psychologism
(B) Phenomenalism
(C) Phenomenology
(D) Objectivism
Answer:(B)
12. Locke is a
(A) Realist
(B) Representative realist
(C) Idealist
(D) Representative idealist
Answer:(X)
13. According to Russell physical objects
are
(A) Ideas
(B) Bogus entities
(C) Logical construction
(D) Illusions
Answer:(C)
14. Consider the following statements :
1. Life is worth living
2. Birth and death are the two
ends of life
3. Honesty is one of the prime
virtues.
4. Akbar was a secular Mughal
emperor
Which of the statements given above
are the statements of value ?
(A) 1 only
(B) 2, 3 and 4 only
(C) 1 and 3 only
(D) 2 and 3 only
Answer:(A)
15. Which one of the following is not
implied by Kant’s, Copernican
revolution ?
(A) Rejection of Naive realism
(B) Blindness of sensible intuition
without concepts
(C) Rejection of transcendental
idealism
(D) Emptiness of thought or
concepts without sensible
intuition.
Answer:(C)
16. Descartes’ assertion, ‘I have an idea
of a most perfect being’, is a premise
in his
(A) Cosmological argument
(B) Ontological argument
(C) Argument from design
(D) Cosmological and ontological
argument both
Answer:(B)
17. According to Sa kara Vyāvahārika
Sattā is falsified by
(A)Prātibhāsika Satta
(B) Pāramārthika Satta
(C) Both (A) and (B)
(D) Neither (A) nor (B)
Answer:(B)
18. Who holds that acit is as much a part
of reality as cit is
(A) Rāmāmuja
(B) Sa kara
(C) Nāgārjuna
(D) None of the above
Answer:(A)
19. The relation of which pairs of relata
mentioned below is not Samavāya ?
(A) Ghatarūpa and Ghata
(B) Ghatarūpa and Samavāya
(C) Ghatava and Ghata
(D) Ghata and its halves
Answer:(B)
20. The first step of teaching of Panca ila
of Buddhism refrains from which of
the following ?
(A) Vikāla Bhojana
(B) Adinādāna
(C) Pranatipāta
(D) Mūsavādā
Answer:(C)
21. Match List – I with List – II and
select the correct answer from the
code given below :
List – I List – II
(Supreme (Religion)
Value)
a. Ahimsā i. Islam
b. Sacrifice ii. Buddhism
c. Brotherhood iii. Christianity
d. Desirelessness iv. Jainism
Codes :
a b c d
(A) i ii iii iv
(B) ii i iv iii
(C) iv iii i ii
(D) iii i ii iv
Answer:(X)
22. Who does not accept ‘Yogaja
Sannikar ha’ ?
(A) Naiyāyikas
(B) Mimāmsakas
(C) Vaiśe ikas
(D) Sāmkhyas
Answer:(B)
23. Which one is not correctly matched ?
(A) Yogyatā, Sannidhi, Tatparya
(B) Āptavākya, Vākyaśesa, Vivrti
(C) Bhuyodarśana, Vyākara a,
āsatti
(D) Upādhinirāsa, tarka,
Sāmānyalaksha a pratyaksha
Answer:(C)
24. Select from the code which is not a
means of Sābdagraha
(A) Upamāna
(B) Āptavākya
(C)Vākyaśesa
(D) Yogyatā
Answer:(D)
25. ‘Fire is cold because it has coldness’
the inference commits the fallacy of
(A) Anaikāntika
(B) Bādha
(C) Asiddha
(D) None of the above
Answer:(B)
26. Who holds knowledge as a substance ?
(A) Samkhya and Advaita Vedānta
(B) Samkhya and Yoga
(C) Advaita Vedanta and Jaina
(D) Nyāya and Buddhist
Answer:(A)
27. Which one of the following pairs
reflects two fundamental crises of
Modern Culture according to Husserl ?
(A) War and Terrorism
(B) Rationality and Technology
(C) Relativism and Scepticism
(D) Agnosticism and Scepticism
Answer:(C)
28. Who says “Consciousness is the
whole or true self claiming to the
legislative for its parts. Its claim is
the claim of the self, as a conscious
and rational being, to judge any
particular manifestation of itself in
voluntary action” ?
(A) Whitehead (B) Ross
(C) Muirhead (D) Clark
Answer:(C)
29. The ‘Right of Contract’ is
indispensable for
(A) Right to live
(B) Right to be free
(C) Right to property
(D) Right to education
Answer:(C)
30. As an empiricist, Locke claims that
all our knowledge is derived either
through sensation or
(A) Perception
(B) Reflection
(C) Thinking
(D) None of the above
Answer:(B)
31. According to Kant, the ideas of
‘reason’ are
(A) Regulative and constitutive
(B) Affirmative and negative
(C) Negative and probable
(D) Constitutive and regulative
Answer:(D)
32. According to Kant, a person becomes
aware of the freedom of his will
because
(A) It is an apriori condition of the
experience of obligation.
(B) He has empirical experience of
it.
(C) It is an apriori condition of
experience of senses.
(D) It can be demonstrated by
science.
Answer:(A)
33. Match List – I with List – II and
choose the correct answer from the
code given below :
List – I List – II
(Ideas) (Philosophers)
a. Swaraj is my i. Sri Rabindranath
birth right Tagore
b. Awakening in ii. Mahatma Gandhi
the Land of
Heaven
c. Hind Swaraj iii. Dr. K.C. Bhattacharya
d. Swaraj in Ideas iv. Lokmānya B.G. Tilak
Codes :
a b c d
(A) iv i ii iii
(B) ii i iv iii
(C) iii i ii iv
(D) i iii ii iv
Answer:(A)
34. The ideal of Niskāmakarma implies
(A) Motiveless action
(B) Desireless action
(C) Inaction
(D) Infatuated action
Answer:(B)
35. Who holds ūtārthapatti as a form of
arthāpatti ?
(A) Prābhākar Mimā sā and
Bhātta Mimā sā
(B) Bhātta Mimā sā and Vedānta
(C) Bhātta Mimā sā and Nyāya
(D) Prābhākara Mimā sā and
Vedānta
Answer:(B)
36. Match List – I with List – II and
select correct answer by using code
given below :
List – I List – II
a. Buddhism i. Both prāmā ya and
aprāmā ya are Swatah
b. Sā khya ii. Both prāmā ya and
aprāmā ya are Paratah
c. Nyāya iii. Swatah prāmā ya
vaiśesikā and paratah aprāmā ya
d. Jainism iv. Both prāmānya and
aprāmā ya are paratah (origin)
Codes :
a b c d
(A) iii i ii iv
(B) i ii iii iv
(C) ii iii i iv
(D) iii i iv ii
Answer:(A)
37. Who aims the objective study of
consciousness ?
(A) Phenomenalism
(B) Existentialism
(C) Phenomenology
(D) Idealism
Answer:(C)
38. According to Nyāya during the
perception of Abhāva ‘Indriyārtha-
Sannikarsa’ takes place though
(A) Sa yoga
(B) Samavāya
(C) Viśe a a – veśe a – bhāva
(D) Samveta – Samvāya
Answer:(C)
39. The anumāna ‘Śabdah nityah
k takatvāt’, commits the hetvābhāsa
known as
(A) Satpratipaksa
(B) Asiddha
(C) Viruddha
(D) Bādhita
Answer:(C)
40. Pañcakalpanā, according to the
Buddhists, are
(A) Nāma, jāti, gu a, kriyā and
avayava
(B) Nāma, jāti, gu a, kriyā and
dravya
(C) Nāma, jāti, gu a, kriyā and
svalak a a
(D) Nāma, sāmānyalak a a, gu a,
kriyā and svalak a a
Answer:(B)
41. Who said that there is a central fire
around which the earth, the sun, the
moon and five planets move ?
(A) Thales
(B) Heraclitus
(C) Pythagoras
(D) Anaximander
Answer:(C)
42. What are the objects of
Sāmānyalak ana pratyak a ?
(A) Universal character of an
individual
(B) Universal and the particular at
the same time
(C) All the individuals belonging to
a class
(D) An individual characterised by
its universal.
Answer:(C)
43. Read following options and choose
the right answer from given code :
Options :
1. The means may be linked to a
seed and the end to a tree.
2. There is no wall of separation
between means and end.
3. The realisation of the goal is
proportional to the means
employed.
Codes :
(A) 1 and 2
(B) 2 and 3
(C) 1 and 3
(D) 1, 2, and 3
Answer:(D)
44. Which one of the following pairs is
correctly matched ?
(A) Leibnitz – Pragmetic theory
of truth
(B) Descartes – Correspondence
theory of truth
(C) Spinoza – The self-evidence
theory of truth
(D) William James – Coherence theory
of truth
Answer:(C)
45. According to Nyaya-Vaiśesika, the
non-existence of jar on the floor is
perceived because
(A) The eye is in contact with the
floor, which is qualified by the
floorness.
(B) The eye is in contact with the
floor, which is qualified by
non-existence of the jar.
(C) There is no jar qualified by
floorness.
(D) There is only floor not
qualified by jarness.
Answer:(B)
46. According to Nyāya school an~
umiti
is possible without
(A) Pak ha jnāna
(B) Paramar ajnāna
(C) Sādhyajnāna
(D) Udhāra ajnāna
Answer:(C)
47. The view ‘Truth of Cognition exists in
its utilitarian value, is supported by
(A) Emotive theory
(B) Coherence theory
(C) Pragmatic theory
(D) Semantic theory
Answer:(C)
48. The conversational method of
Socrates took place in the form of
(A) A Sceptic
(B) A Certainty
(C) A kind of Dialectic
(D) As a Verbal Jugglary
Answer:(C)
49. The conceptual instrument with
which inductive conclusions are
expressed is
(A) The concept of necessity.
(B) The concept of relation.
(C) The concept of probability.
(D) None of the above
Answer:(C)
50. According to the feminist thinker
Kristeva, religion as a language
maintains the tension between an
(A) Physical needs and personal
cognition of reality.
(B) Psychological needs and
objective cognition of reality.
(C) Psychological needs and
personal cognition of reality.
(D) Divine needs and theological
cognition of reality.
Answer:(C)
51. Utilitarians argue that natural rights
should be regarded as
(A) Primary rules of conduct
(B) Secondary rules of conduct
(C) Legal rules of conduct
(D) Moral rules of conduct
Answer:(B)
Answer:(A)
53. If ‘A’ and ‘B’ are true and ‘X’ and
‘Y’ are false statements, which of the
following compound statements are
true ?
(A) ~ (A v X)
(B) A v (X · Y)
(C) A · [X v (B · Y)]
(D) [(A · X) v – B] · – [(A · X) v – B]
Answer:(B)
54. Match List – I with List – II and
select the correct answer from given
code :
List – I List – II
a. Proposition i. Curl
b. Negation ii. Valid
c. Argument iii. True/False
d. Sentence iv. Exclamation
Codes :
a b c d
(A) iii iv i ii
(B) iii i ii iv
(C) iv iii ii i
(D) iv ii i iii
Answer:(B)
55. In the context of correspondence
theory of truth evaluate following
(‘A’ and ‘R’) and select proper
option :
Assertion (A) : Truth can not be
defined in terms of “a relation
between object and
proposition”.
Reason (R) : A proposition can
never be a copy of an object.
Codes :
(A) (A) and (R) both are true and
(R) provides a correct
explanation of (A).
(B) (A) and (R) both are false and
(R) provides a correct
explanation of (A).
(C) (A) and (R) both are false and
(R) does not provide a correct
explanation of (A).
(D) (A) and (R) both are true and
(R) does not provide a correct
explanation of (A).
Answer:(A)
56. Inductive logic studies the way in
which a premise may
(A) support and entail a conclusion.
(B) not support but entail a
conclusion.
(C) support a conclusion without
entailing it.
(D) neither support nor entail a
conclusion
Answer:(C)
Answer:(B)
58. ‘p v q’ is equivalent to
(A) ~ (p · ~ q)
(B) ~ (~ p · ~ q)
(C) ~ (q · ~ p)
(D) ~ p · ~ q
Answer:(B)
59. ‘Soldiers are never coward’ is a
proposition of the form
(A) I
(B) A
(C) E
(D) O
Answer:(C)
60. The syllogism ‘Some lions are
friendly ; No friendly things roar,
Therefore, no lions roar”
(A) is a valid syllogism
(B) commits the fallacy of illicit
major
(C) commits the fallacy of four
terms
(D) commits the fallacy of illicit
minor
Answer:(D)
61. The contrapositive of the proposition
“All A’s are B’s” is
(A) Some B’s are non A’s
(B) No non A’s are non B’s
(C) All non B’s are non A’s
(D) Some B’s are not non A’s
Answer:(C)
62. An experiment held to decide with
certainty between two hypothesis is
called
(A) Critical experiment
(B) Crucial experiment
(C) Rational experiment
(D) Controlled experiment
Answer:(B)
63. If the universal quantification of a
propositional function is true then
(A) its existential quantification
may be false.
(B) its existential quantification
may be true.
(C) its existential quantification
must also be true.
(D) its existential quantification
must be false.
Answer:(C)
64. Consider List – I & List – II and
select the correctly matched pair
using the code given below
List – I List – II
a. Śruti i. Brahmasūtras
prasthāna
b. Nyāya ii. Srimad-bhagavadgīta
prasthāna
c. Smiti- iii. Upanisads
prasthāna
d. Vivarana- iv. Padmapādācārya
prasthāna
Codes :
a b c d
(A) iii i iv ii
(B) iii i ii iv
(C) i ii iii iv
(D) ii iii i iv
Answer:(B)
65. According to Nyāya we know the
relation of Vyāpti by
(A) Nirvikalpaka Pratyak a
(B) Anupalabdhi
(C) Sāmānya – lak a a pratyak a
(D) Upamāna
Answer:(C)
66. Which one of the following holds
upamāna as a tool for ‘Samjnā-
Samjnī-sa bandha jnāna’ ?
(A) Prābhākara Mimā sā
(B) Bhātta Mimā sā
(C) Nyāya
(D) Vedānta
Answer:(C)
67. The basis of our knowledge of
nearness and farness is
(A) Ākāśa (B) Kāla
(C) Dik (D) Manas
Answer:(C)
68. Which one of the following pairs is
the foundation of feminism ?
(A) Equality and Humanity
(B) Freedom and Humanism
(C) Equality and Freedom
(D) Sisterhood and Humanism
Answer:(C)
69. Who holds that a special duty of a
human being is strictly determined
by his particular station in life and he
should perform these duties faithfully
to realize his highest personal good
and the general good ?
(A) Kant (B) Bradley
(C) Manu (D) Kautilya
Answer:(B)
70. Which one of the following pairs
represents a true contrast ?
(A) Reflective
morality – Personal choice
and will
(B) Group morality – Customary morality
(C) Freedom ofwill – Determinism
(D) Law of society – External Law
Answer:(C)
71. Match List – I with List – II and mark
correct answer from given code :
List – I List – II
a. Quantitative i. Rashdall
Utilitarianism
b. Rational ii. Bentham
Utilitarianism
c. Qualitative iii. Sedgwick
Utilitarianism
d. Ideal iv. Mill
Utilitarianism
Codes :
a b c d
(A) ii iii iv i
(B) ii iii i iv
(C) iv i iii ii
(D) ii iv iii ii
Answer:(A)
72. Match List – I with List – II and mark
correct answer from given code :
List – I List – II
a. Habit i. Repeated voluntary action
b. Moral ii. Voluntary action
Judgement
c. Intention iii. Final cause of action
d. Character iv. Permanent bent of mind
Codes :
a b c d
(A) i ii iii iv
(B) ii iii i iv
(C) iv iii i ii
(D) i iii ii iv
Answer:(A)
73. Ethics is the study of the concepts
involved in
(A) Speculative reasoning
(B) Pure reasoning
(C) Abstract reasoning
(D) Practical reasoning
Answer:(D)
74. “Ends justify means” is derived by the
(A) Utilitarians
(B) Pragmatists
(C) Deontologists
(D) Imperativists
Answer:(X)
75. According to G.E. Moore goodness
is
(A) Simple, unanalysable quality
known by intuition
(B) Simple, analysable quality
known by intuition
(C) Complex, unanalysable quality
known by reason
(D) Simple, unanalysable quality
known by experience
Answer:(A)
Paper – III
Note : This paper contains seventy five (75) objective type questions of two (2) marks each.
All questions are compulsory.
Sep 2013
1. The root cause of sufferings
according to Buddha is
(A) Janma (B) Duhkha
(C) Trisnā (D) Avidyā
Answer:(D)
2. The reference to Varna-dharma is
found first in
(A) Manusmriti
(B) Bhagavad Gita
(C) Ramayana
(D) Purusha-sukta
Answer:(D)
3. Which of the following Purusharthas
are included in Trivarga ?
(A) Artha, Kama, Moksa
(B) Artha, Dharma, Kama
(C) Moksa , Dharma, Kama
(D) Artha, Dharma,Moksa
Answer:(B)
4. Shila is
(A) Means to Prajñā
(B) A kind of Pāramitas
(C) Means to Punya
(D) All the above
Answer:(D)
5. According to ‘Antirepresentationalists’,
(A) picture and reality are
synonymous.
(B) there is an absolute picture of
reality.
(C) there is no one picture of
reality.
(D) there is no picture of reality.
Answer:(D)
6. According to Aristotle the three
kinds of soul are
(A) Ghost soul, animal soul, human
soul
(B) God soul, ghost soul, human
soul
(C) God soul, animal soul, plant
soul
(D) Plant soul, animal soul, human
soul
Answer:(D)
7. According to which of the following
“theory of truth for a formal language
could serve as a theory of meaning
for natural language” ?
(A) P.F. Strawson
(B) Ludwig Wittgenstein
(C) B. Russell
(D) Donald Davidson
Answer:(D)
8. Kant classifies categories of
understanding under four heads as
(A) quality, spirit, modality and
matter
(B) quantity, quality, relation and
modality
(C) substance, matter, spirit and
quality
(D) relation, spirit, substance and
quantity
Answer:(B)
9. Which one of the following is not
true of Heidegger’s Dasein ?
(A) It is essentially self-conscious.
(B) It is engaged with the world.
(C) It is always an actuality and not
possibility.
(D) It is always a possibility and
not an actuality
Answer:(C)
10. The proposition basic to idealism
which Moore rejects is
(A) Cogito-ergo-sum
(B) The thing in itself is non-
empirical
(C) esse est percipi
(D) ideas are no less real than
matter
Answer:(C)
11. The theory that objects are
permanent possibilities of sensations
is called
(A) Psychologism
(B) Phenomenalism
(C) Phenomenology
(D) Objectivism
Answer:(B)
12. Locke is a
(A) Realist
(B) Representative realist
(C) Idealist
(D) Representative idealist
Answer:(X)
13. According to Russell physical objects
are
(A) Ideas
(B) Bogus entities
(C) Logical construction
(D) Illusions
Answer:(C)
14. Consider the following statements :
1. Life is worth living
2. Birth and death are the two
ends of life
3. Honesty is one of the prime
virtues.
4. Akbar was a secular Mughal
emperor
Which of the statements given above
are the statements of value ?
(A) 1 only
(B) 2, 3 and 4 only
(C) 1 and 3 only
(D) 2 and 3 only
Answer:(A)
15. Which one of the following is not
implied by Kant’s, Copernican
revolution ?
(A) Rejection of Naive realism
(B) Blindness of sensible intuition
without concepts
(C) Rejection of transcendental
idealism
(D) Emptiness of thought or
concepts without sensible
intuition.
Answer:(C)
16. Descartes’ assertion, ‘I have an idea
of a most perfect being’, is a premise
in his
(A) Cosmological argument
(B) Ontological argument
(C) Argument from design
(D) Cosmological and ontological
argument both
Answer:(B)
17. According to Sa kara Vyāvahārika
Sattā is falsified by
(A)Prātibhāsika Satta
(B) Pāramārthika Satta
(C) Both (A) and (B)
(D) Neither (A) nor (B)
Answer:(B)
18. Who holds that acit is as much a part
of reality as cit is
(A) Rāmāmuja
(B) Sa kara
(C) Nāgārjuna
(D) None of the above
Answer:(A)
19. The relation of which pairs of relata
mentioned below is not Samavāya ?
(A) Ghatarūpa and Ghata
(B) Ghatarūpa and Samavāya
(C) Ghatava and Ghata
(D) Ghata and its halves
Answer:(B)
20. The first step of teaching of Panca ila
of Buddhism refrains from which of
the following ?
(A) Vikāla Bhojana
(B) Adinādāna
(C) Pranatipāta
(D) Mūsavādā
Answer:(C)
21. Match List – I with List – II and
select the correct answer from the
code given below :
List – I List – II
(Supreme (Religion)
Value)
a. Ahimsā i. Islam
b. Sacrifice ii. Buddhism
c. Brotherhood iii. Christianity
d. Desirelessness iv. Jainism
Codes :
a b c d
(A) i ii iii iv
(B) ii i iv iii
(C) iv iii i ii
(D) iii i ii iv
Answer:(X)
22. Who does not accept ‘Yogaja
Sannikar ha’ ?
(A) Naiyāyikas
(B) Mimāmsakas
(C) Vaiśe ikas
(D) Sāmkhyas
Answer:(B)
23. Which one is not correctly matched ?
(A) Yogyatā, Sannidhi, Tatparya
(B) Āptavākya, Vākyaśesa, Vivrti
(C) Bhuyodarśana, Vyākara a,
āsatti
(D) Upādhinirāsa, tarka,
Sāmānyalaksha a pratyaksha
Answer:(C)
24. Select from the code which is not a
means of Sābdagraha
(A) Upamāna
(B) Āptavākya
(C)Vākyaśesa
(D) Yogyatā
Answer:(D)
25. ‘Fire is cold because it has coldness’
the inference commits the fallacy of
(A) Anaikāntika
(B) Bādha
(C) Asiddha
(D) None of the above
Answer:(B)
26. Who holds knowledge as a substance ?
(A) Samkhya and Advaita Vedānta
(B) Samkhya and Yoga
(C) Advaita Vedanta and Jaina
(D) Nyāya and Buddhist
Answer:(A)
27. Which one of the following pairs
reflects two fundamental crises of
Modern Culture according to Husserl ?
(A) War and Terrorism
(B) Rationality and Technology
(C) Relativism and Scepticism
(D) Agnosticism and Scepticism
Answer:(C)
28. Who says “Consciousness is the
whole or true self claiming to the
legislative for its parts. Its claim is
the claim of the self, as a conscious
and rational being, to judge any
particular manifestation of itself in
voluntary action” ?
(A) Whitehead (B) Ross
(C) Muirhead (D) Clark
Answer:(C)
29. The ‘Right of Contract’ is
indispensable for
(A) Right to live
(B) Right to be free
(C) Right to property
(D) Right to education
Answer:(C)
30. As an empiricist, Locke claims that
all our knowledge is derived either
through sensation or
(A) Perception
(B) Reflection
(C) Thinking
(D) None of the above
Answer:(B)
31. According to Kant, the ideas of
‘reason’ are
(A) Regulative and constitutive
(B) Affirmative and negative
(C) Negative and probable
(D) Constitutive and regulative
Answer:(D)
32. According to Kant, a person becomes
aware of the freedom of his will
because
(A) It is an apriori condition of the
experience of obligation.
(B) He has empirical experience of
it.
(C) It is an apriori condition of
experience of senses.
(D) It can be demonstrated by
science.
Answer:(A)
33. Match List – I with List – II and
choose the correct answer from the
code given below :
List – I List – II
(Ideas) (Philosophers)
a. Swaraj is my i. Sri Rabindranath
birth right Tagore
b. Awakening in ii. Mahatma Gandhi
the Land of
Heaven
c. Hind Swaraj iii. Dr. K.C. Bhattacharya
d. Swaraj in Ideas iv. Lokmānya B.G. Tilak
Codes :
a b c d
(A) iv i ii iii
(B) ii i iv iii
(C) iii i ii iv
(D) i iii ii iv
Answer:(A)
34. The ideal of Niskāmakarma implies
(A) Motiveless action
(B) Desireless action
(C) Inaction
(D) Infatuated action
Answer:(B)
35. Who holds ūtārthapatti as a form of
arthāpatti ?
(A) Prābhākar Mimā sā and
Bhātta Mimā sā
(B) Bhātta Mimā sā and Vedānta
(C) Bhātta Mimā sā and Nyāya
(D) Prābhākara Mimā sā and
Vedānta
Answer:(B)
36. Match List – I with List – II and
select correct answer by using code
given below :
List – I List – II
a. Buddhism i. Both prāmā ya and
aprāmā ya are Swatah
b. Sā khya ii. Both prāmā ya and
aprāmā ya are Paratah
c. Nyāya iii. Swatah prāmā ya
vaiśesikā and paratah aprāmā ya
d. Jainism iv. Both prāmānya and
aprāmā ya are paratah (origin)
Codes :
a b c d
(A) iii i ii iv
(B) i ii iii iv
(C) ii iii i iv
(D) iii i iv ii
Answer:(A)
37. Who aims the objective study of
consciousness ?
(A) Phenomenalism
(B) Existentialism
(C) Phenomenology
(D) Idealism
Answer:(C)
38. According to Nyāya during the
perception of Abhāva ‘Indriyārtha-
Sannikarsa’ takes place though
(A) Sa yoga
(B) Samavāya
(C) Viśe a a – veśe a – bhāva
(D) Samveta – Samvāya
Answer:(C)
39. The anumāna ‘Śabdah nityah
k takatvāt’, commits the hetvābhāsa
known as
(A) Satpratipaksa
(B) Asiddha
(C) Viruddha
(D) Bādhita
Answer:(C)
40. Pañcakalpanā, according to the
Buddhists, are
(A) Nāma, jāti, gu a, kriyā and
avayava
(B) Nāma, jāti, gu a, kriyā and
dravya
(C) Nāma, jāti, gu a, kriyā and
svalak a a
(D) Nāma, sāmānyalak a a, gu a,
kriyā and svalak a a
Answer:(B)
41. Who said that there is a central fire
around which the earth, the sun, the
moon and five planets move ?
(A) Thales
(B) Heraclitus
(C) Pythagoras
(D) Anaximander
Answer:(C)
42. What are the objects of
Sāmānyalak ana pratyak a ?
(A) Universal character of an
individual
(B) Universal and the particular at
the same time
(C) All the individuals belonging to
a class
(D) An individual characterised by
its universal.
Answer:(C)
43. Read following options and choose
the right answer from given code :
Options :
1. The means may be linked to a
seed and the end to a tree.
2. There is no wall of separation
between means and end.
3. The realisation of the goal is
proportional to the means
employed.
Codes :
(A) 1 and 2
(B) 2 and 3
(C) 1 and 3
(D) 1, 2, and 3
Answer:(D)
44. Which one of the following pairs is
correctly matched ?
(A) Leibnitz – Pragmetic theory
of truth
(B) Descartes – Correspondence
theory of truth
(C) Spinoza – The self-evidence
theory of truth
(D) William James – Coherence theory
of truth
Answer:(C)
45. According to Nyaya-Vaiśesika, the
non-existence of jar on the floor is
perceived because
(A) The eye is in contact with the
floor, which is qualified by the
floorness.
(B) The eye is in contact with the
floor, which is qualified by
non-existence of the jar.
(C) There is no jar qualified by
floorness.
(D) There is only floor not
qualified by jarness.
Answer:(B)
46. According to Nyāya school an~
umiti
is possible without
(A) Pak ha jnāna
(B) Paramar ajnāna
(C) Sādhyajnāna
(D) Udhāra ajnāna
Answer:(C)
47. The view ‘Truth of Cognition exists in
its utilitarian value, is supported by
(A) Emotive theory
(B) Coherence theory
(C) Pragmatic theory
(D) Semantic theory
Answer:(C)
48. The conversational method of
Socrates took place in the form of
(A) A Sceptic
(B) A Certainty
(C) A kind of Dialectic
(D) As a Verbal Jugglary
Answer:(C)
49. The conceptual instrument with
which inductive conclusions are
expressed is
(A) The concept of necessity.
(B) The concept of relation.
(C) The concept of probability.
(D) None of the above
Answer:(C)
50. According to the feminist thinker
Kristeva, religion as a language
maintains the tension between an
(A) Physical needs and personal
cognition of reality.
(B) Psychological needs and
objective cognition of reality.
(C) Psychological needs and
personal cognition of reality.
(D) Divine needs and theological
cognition of reality.
Answer:(C)
51. Utilitarians argue that natural rights
should be regarded as
(A) Primary rules of conduct
(B) Secondary rules of conduct
(C) Legal rules of conduct
(D) Moral rules of conduct
Answer:(B)
Answer:(A)
53. If ‘A’ and ‘B’ are true and ‘X’ and
‘Y’ are false statements, which of the
following compound statements are
true ?
(A) ~ (A v X)
(B) A v (X · Y)
(C) A · [X v (B · Y)]
(D) [(A · X) v – B] · – [(A · X) v – B]
Answer:(B)
54. Match List – I with List – II and
select the correct answer from given
code :
List – I List – II
a. Proposition i. Curl
b. Negation ii. Valid
c. Argument iii. True/False
d. Sentence iv. Exclamation
Codes :
a b c d
(A) iii iv i ii
(B) iii i ii iv
(C) iv iii ii i
(D) iv ii i iii
Answer:(B)
55. In the context of correspondence
theory of truth evaluate following
(‘A’ and ‘R’) and select proper
option :
Assertion (A) : Truth can not be
defined in terms of “a relation
between object and
proposition”.
Reason (R) : A proposition can
never be a copy of an object.
Codes :
(A) (A) and (R) both are true and
(R) provides a correct
explanation of (A).
(B) (A) and (R) both are false and
(R) provides a correct
explanation of (A).
(C) (A) and (R) both are false and
(R) does not provide a correct
explanation of (A).
(D) (A) and (R) both are true and
(R) does not provide a correct
explanation of (A).
Answer:(A)
56. Inductive logic studies the way in
which a premise may
(A) support and entail a conclusion.
(B) not support but entail a
conclusion.
(C) support a conclusion without
entailing it.
(D) neither support nor entail a
conclusion
Answer:(C)
Answer:(B)
58. ‘p v q’ is equivalent to
(A) ~ (p · ~ q)
(B) ~ (~ p · ~ q)
(C) ~ (q · ~ p)
(D) ~ p · ~ q
Answer:(B)
59. ‘Soldiers are never coward’ is a
proposition of the form
(A) I
(B) A
(C) E
(D) O
Answer:(C)
60. The syllogism ‘Some lions are
friendly ; No friendly things roar,
Therefore, no lions roar”
(A) is a valid syllogism
(B) commits the fallacy of illicit
major
(C) commits the fallacy of four
terms
(D) commits the fallacy of illicit
minor
Answer:(D)
61. The contrapositive of the proposition
“All A’s are B’s” is
(A) Some B’s are non A’s
(B) No non A’s are non B’s
(C) All non B’s are non A’s
(D) Some B’s are not non A’s
Answer:(C)
62. An experiment held to decide with
certainty between two hypothesis is
called
(A) Critical experiment
(B) Crucial experiment
(C) Rational experiment
(D) Controlled experiment
Answer:(B)
63. If the universal quantification of a
propositional function is true then
(A) its existential quantification
may be false.
(B) its existential quantification
may be true.
(C) its existential quantification
must also be true.
(D) its existential quantification
must be false.
Answer:(C)
64. Consider List – I & List – II and
select the correctly matched pair
using the code given below
List – I List – II
a. Śruti i. Brahmasūtras
prasthāna
b. Nyāya ii. Srimad-bhagavadgīta
prasthāna
c. Smiti- iii. Upanisads
prasthāna
d. Vivarana- iv. Padmapādācārya
prasthāna
Codes :
a b c d
(A) iii i iv ii
(B) iii i ii iv
(C) i ii iii iv
(D) ii iii i iv
Answer:(B)
65. According to Nyāya we know the
relation of Vyāpti by
(A) Nirvikalpaka Pratyak a
(B) Anupalabdhi
(C) Sāmānya – lak a a pratyak a
(D) Upamāna
Answer:(C)
66. Which one of the following holds
upamāna as a tool for ‘Samjnā-
Samjnī-sa bandha jnāna’ ?
(A) Prābhākara Mimā sā
(B) Bhātta Mimā sā
(C) Nyāya
(D) Vedānta
Answer:(C)
67. The basis of our knowledge of
nearness and farness is
(A) Ākāśa (B) Kāla
(C) Dik (D) Manas
Answer:(C)
68. Which one of the following pairs is
the foundation of feminism ?
(A) Equality and Humanity
(B) Freedom and Humanism
(C) Equality and Freedom
(D) Sisterhood and Humanism
Answer:(C)
69. Who holds that a special duty of a
human being is strictly determined
by his particular station in life and he
should perform these duties faithfully
to realize his highest personal good
and the general good ?
(A) Kant (B) Bradley
(C) Manu (D) Kautilya
Answer:(B)
70. Which one of the following pairs
represents a true contrast ?
(A) Reflective
morality – Personal choice
and will
(B) Group morality – Customary morality
(C) Freedom ofwill – Determinism
(D) Law of society – External Law
Answer:(C)
71. Match List – I with List – II and mark
correct answer from given code :
List – I List – II
a. Quantitative i. Rashdall
Utilitarianism
b. Rational ii. Bentham
Utilitarianism
c. Qualitative iii. Sedgwick
Utilitarianism
d. Ideal iv. Mill
Utilitarianism
Codes :
a b c d
(A) ii iii iv i
(B) ii iii i iv
(C) iv i iii ii
(D) ii iv iii ii
Answer:(A)
72. Match List – I with List – II and mark
correct answer from given code :
List – I List – II
a. Habit i. Repeated voluntary action
b. Moral ii. Voluntary action
Judgement
c. Intention iii. Final cause of action
d. Character iv. Permanent bent of mind
Codes :
a b c d
(A) i ii iii iv
(B) ii iii i iv
(C) iv iii i ii
(D) i iii ii iv
Answer:(A)
73. Ethics is the study of the concepts
involved in
(A) Speculative reasoning
(B) Pure reasoning
(C) Abstract reasoning
(D) Practical reasoning
Answer:(D)
74. “Ends justify means” is derived by the
(A) Utilitarians
(B) Pragmatists
(C) Deontologists
(D) Imperativists
Answer:(X)
75. According to G.E. Moore goodness
is
(A) Simple, unanalysable quality
known by intuition
(B) Simple, analysable quality
known by intuition
(C) Complex, unanalysable quality
known by reason
(D) Simple, unanalysable quality
known by experience
Answer:(A)