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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