Modern Western Philosophy Set 14

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This set of Modern Western Philosophy Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Modern Western Philosophy Set 14

Q1 | To solve mind and body problem, Descartes has introduced ……….
  • Mind Body Dualism
  • Psycho-physical Interactionism
  • Occassionalism
  • Psycho-physical parallelism
Answer: Psycho-physical Interactionism
Q2 | Which among is NOT included Descartes three kinds of ideas
  • Innate Ideas
  • Complex Ideas
  • Factitious Ideas
  • Adventitious Ideas
Answer: Complex Ideas
Q3 | Descartes argues against trusting the senses on the grounds that ………
  • They never directly deceive him
  • They sometimes deceive him
  • God allows sensory deception
  • Sense perception is indubitable
Answer: They sometimes deceive him
Q4 | Descartes declares that he is …………
  • A body
  • a dream
  • a thing that thinks
  • a thing that cannot exist
Answer: a thing that thinks
Q5 | Descartes reasons that the very fact that he is thinking shows that ……
  • He does not exist
  • He is not being deceived
  • He exists
  • He is dreaming
Answer: He exists
Q6 | The view that we consist of two distinct substances (body and mind) and that these two interactis known as ………
  • Functionalism
  • Identity theory
  • Substance dualism
  • Materialism
Answer: Identity theory
Q7 | Descartes believed that interaction between body and mind took place in ……
  • Ectoplasm
  • the brain stem
  • the pineal gland
  • the nervous system
Answer: the pineal gland
Q8 | Descartes says that the chief characteristic of physical things is that …..
  • They cannot be measured
  • Science can study them
  • They do not have extension
  • They have extension
Answer: They have extension
Q9 | Which of the following do Cartesian dualists reject?
  • That minds and bodies exist
  • That mind and bodies can exist independently of each other
  • That minds exist in time
  • That mind exist in space
Answer: That mind exist in space
Q10 | According to Descartes, knowledge is
  • Power
  • Unattainable
  • Certain
  • Fleeting
Answer: Certain
Q11 | For Descartes, cogito ergo sum is
  • A proof for the existence of God
  • An indubitable truth
  • An obvious falsehood
  • A way to make money
Answer: An indubitable truth
Q12 | Which claim did Descartes use to establish the certainty of his own existence?
  • To be is to be perceived
  • I think, therefore I am
  • Nothing exists except bodies in motion
  • Every created thing has both mental and physical properties.
Answer: I think, therefore I am
Q13 | What was clarity and distinctness a mark of, for Rene Descartes?
  • God
  • Goodness
  • Truth
  • Rationality
Answer: Truth
Q14 | Who authored the book Discourse on Method ?.
  • Descartes
  • Spinoza
  • Immanuel Kant
  • Hegel
Answer: Descartes
Q15 | Which book authored Rene Descartes
  • Critique of Pure Reason
  • Ethics
  • Meditations on First Philosophy
  • The Principles of Human Knowledge
Answer: Meditations on First Philosophy
Q16 | Descartes uses the method of doubt to cast doubt on
  • The existence of the external world
  • The existence of God
  • The existence of dream
  • The existence of demons
Answer: The existence of the external world
Q17 | Spinoza equates substance with ------- and --------
  • Qualities, God
  • Nature, God
  • Nature, Soul
  • None of the above
Answer: Nature, God
Q18 | By admitting only God, Spinoza fails to explain plurality, diversity, motion and change of the …..
  • Individual souls
  • Objects of the world
  • Empirical world
  • None of the above
Answer: Objects of the world
Q19 | Which one of the following statements is associated with Spinoza?
  • Mind and body are two independent entities in perfect harmony with each other.
  • Mind and body interact and there is a causal relation between the two.
  • Mind and body are not two independent substances but are two parallel manifestations of the same reality.
  • Mind is an epiphenomenon of the body
Answer: Mind and body are not two independent substances but are two parallel manifestations of the same reality.
Q20 | Which one of the following statements is true, according to Spinoza?
  • Substance can exist outside of God
  • Substance and God are independent realities
  • There can be no substance outside of God
  • Substance and God are imaginary.
Answer: There can be no substance outside of God
Q21 | By ‘mode’ Spinoza means that which
  • Is in itself and is conceived through itself
  • Exists in itself
  • Is a being that is absolutely infinite
  • Exists through something other than itself
Answer: Exists through something other than itself
Q22 | What is true of Spinoza’s parallelism?
  • It explains the mental by the physical
  • It explains the physical by the mental
  • It is double aspect theory accepting both the mental and physical realms as manifestations of the same substance.
  • It accepts the mental and the physical as two stages of evolution.
Answer: It is double aspect theory accepting both the mental and physical realms as manifestations of the same substance.
Q23 | Spinoza claims substance is …………. and ………………
  • Many, finite
  • One, infinite
  • Many, limited
  • One, limited
Answer: One, infinite
Q24 | By ………….. Spinoza understands that which is in itself and which is conceived by means of itself.
  • Matter
  • Body
  • Substance
  • Attribute
Answer: Substance
Q25 | ............ points out that if Descartes, definition of substance is to be strictly adhered to, there can be only one substance, i.e., God.
  • Spinoza
  • Hume
  • Locke
  • Berkeley
Answer: Spinoza
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