Modern Western Philosophy Set 11
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This set of Modern Western Philosophy Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Modern Western Philosophy Set 11
Q1 | For ______________, knowledge is a posteriori.
- Rationalists
- Idealists
- Intuitionists
- Empiricists
Q2 | For ______________, true knowledge is a priori.
- Empiricists
- Idealists
- Intuitionists
- Rationalists
Q3 | According to Locke, qualities are divided into __________.
- a priori and a posteriori
- physical and mental
- primary and secondary
- empirical and spiritual
Q4 | ____________ is the dictum of Subjective Idealism.
- Cogito ergo sum
- esse est percipi
- both (a) and (b)
- neither (a) nor (b)
Q5 | The term Tabula rasa implies the rejection of _____________.
- sense experience
- empiricism
- innate ideas
- primary qualities
Q6 | Mentalism is another term for _____________.
- Subjective Idealism
- Rationalism
- Absolute Idealism
- None of these
Q7 | Ideas do not exist without a perceiving mind. This is the argument of __________.
- Locke
- Spinoza
- Berkeley
- Marx
Q8 | _________ rejected the existence of a material substance apart from the perceiver’s idea.
- Berkeley
- Locke
- Spinoza
- None of these
Q9 | Hume divided all perceptions into ____________.
- primary and secondary
- impressions and ideas
- matter and mind
- innate and acquired
Q10 | __________ proposed the Law of Association of Ideas.
- Locke
- Spinoza
- Berkeley
- Hume
Q11 | According to Hume, our idea of causation is only the result of a constant __________ of ideas.
- impression
- dissociation
- separation
- conjunction
Q12 | According to Hume, our idea of causation does not imply ________.
- perception
- necessity
- contingency
- any of these
Q13 | In Locke’s system, __________ is a primary quality.
- colour
- sound
- smell
- extension
Q14 | According to Locke, solidity and extension are ___________ qualities.
- primary
- secondary
- both (a) and (b)
- neither (a) nor (b)
Q15 | _________ is not included in Locke’s catalogue of primary qualities.
- extension
- solidity
- colour
- figure
Q16 | According to Locke, there are no _________ ideas and hence mind is a tabula rasa.
- clear
- sensible
- innate
- complex
Q17 | ‘If no one perceives a thing, God always perceives everything’. This is the view of ________.
- Berkeley
- Spinoza
- Descartes
- Hume
Q18 | Both Locke and Berkeley are ____________.
- Empiricists
- Idealists
- Occasionalists
- Rationalists
Q19 | ___________ ends up in skepticism regarding any certain knowledge.
- Spinoza
- Descartes
- Locke
- Hume
Q20 | ___________ is the author of the Critique of Pure Reason.
- Berkeley
- Kant
- Locke
- Descartes
Q21 | In a/an ___________ proposition, the predicate is part of the subject.
- synthetic
- analytic
- empirical
- None of these
Q22 | ___________ knowledge is independent of sense experience.
- a priori
- a posteriori
- both (a) and (b)
- neither (a) nor (b)
Q23 | According to Kant, causality is a/an ____________ concept.
- empirical
- synthetic a priori
- synthetic a posteriori
- none of these
Q24 | Noumena refer to ___________.
- thing-in-itself
- sensible objects
- empirical reality
- all these
Q25 | According to Kant, sensibility and __________ constitute knowledge.
- perception
- causality
- understanding
- noumena