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This set of Methodology of Philosophy Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Methodology Of Philosophy Set 2

Q1 | Chintana prakriya means
  • a manner of thinking or procedure of thinking over some problem
  • a manner of expression characteristic of a particular philosopher or individual
  • an account of a group of facts or phenomena
  • an account of the procedures to be followed in a scientific investigation
Q2 | Style means
  • an account of the procedures to be followed in a scientific investigation.
  • an account of a group of facts or phenomena
  • a manner of thinking or procedure of thinking over some problem
  • a manner of expression characteristic of a particular philosopher or individual
Q3 | An argument expressed or claimed to be expressible in the form of two propositions called the premises , containing a common or middle term , with a third proposition called the conclusion resulting necessarily from the other two, is called
  • method
  • style
  • syllogism
  • theory
Q4 | According to Wittgenstein, syllogism is
  • a philosophical method
  • a demonstrative method
  • style
  • theory
Q5 | Art is concerned with practice, while method is a process of
  • skill
  • action
  • application
  • thinking
Q6 | A person’s style of doing is called
  • method
  • syllogism
  • pattern
  • manner
Q7 | -----------------is a mode of action
  • philosophical method
  • procedure
  • syllogism
  • theory
Q8 | Logico-mathematical method is called
  • demonstrative method
  • pure philosophical method
  • scientific method
  • hypothetical method
Q9 | ---------------------is an example of pure philosophical method
  • mystical method
  • analogical method
  • etymological method
  • phenomenological
Q10 | “A philosophical system claims uniformity of method, but a truly philosophical spirit will rather aim at flexibility”. This statement is by
  • descartes
  • socrates
  • collingwood
  • wittgenstein
Q11 | --------------considered as the starting points of mathematical method.
  • propositions
  • axioms
  • theorems
  • laws
Q12 | Spinoza’s method is known as
  • axiomatic
  • mathematical
  • theoretical
  • geometrical
Q13 | What is the name of book in which Descartes stated his four rules of method?
  • discourse on the method
  • the method
  • ethics
  • on ideas
Q14 | Descartes considered -----------and -----------as the two criteria of true knowledge.
  • purity and clearness
  • clearness and distinctiveness
  • clearness and truthfulness
  • distinctiveness and purity
Q15 | Descartes himself refuted ------------- as a philosophical method.
  • induction
  • deduction
  • syllogism
  • intuition
Q16 | Immanuel Kant’s method is known as
  • transcendental
  • mathematical
  • geometrical
  • intuitive
Q17 | The term ‘a priori’ means
  • empirical
  • a posteriori
  • after experience
  • before experience
Q18 | “---------------------------------” constitutes a definite and self-evident starting point for the Cartesian philosophy.
  • a priori
  • self-evident principles
  • cogito ergo sum
  • ergo cogito
Q19 | Descartes says that when deduction is ’complex and involved’ it may be termed -------
  • enumeration
  • complex deduction
  • association
  • complex intuition
Q20 | According to Kant dogmatism has two forms viz. rationalism and --------------.
  • intuitionalism
  • empiricism
  • scepticism
  • solipsism
Q21 | To attain certainty and clarity in philosophy many philosophers recommended
  • mathematical method
  • synthetic method
  • enumeration
  • intuitive method
Q22 | The method which employs a long series of definitions, postulates, axioms, theorems and problems.
  • mathematical method
  • synthetic method
  • enumeration
  • intuitive method
Q23 | In the mathematical method we deduce other principles and propositions from --------
  • enumeration
  • complex deduction
  • association
  • axioms
Q24 | Mathematics is a body of certain and-------------------------------- truths.
  • self-evident
  • mathematical
  • theoretical
  • geometrical
Q25 | Who gave primacy to intuition?
  • hume
  • locke
  • russell
  • descartes