Modern Western Philosophy Set 16
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This set of Modern Western Philosophy Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Modern Western Philosophy Set 16
Q1 | John Locke rejected the concept of:
- Substance
- Innate Ideas
- Experience
- Primary Qualities
Q2 | There must be an unknown and unknowable substratum which supports the existence of ………..qualities
- Primary
- Secondary
- Basic
- Both primary and secondary
Q3 | The secondary properties of substance are known as ………….
- Modes
- Attribute
- Relative property
- Substance
Q4 | Which one of the following according to Locke is correct description of substance?
- Substance is spiritual in nature
- Substance has both real and nominal essences.
- Substance is a known locus of qualities.
- Substance is the cause of the world
Q5 | Locke suggests that mind knows directly the ……. and not the objects themselves.
- Sensations
- Ideas of the object
- Qualities
- none of the above
Q6 | Which one of the following according to Locke justifies the distinction between primary andsecondary qualities?
- God has created primary qualities
- Secondary qualities are given in experience
- Primary qualities and secondary qualities are logically different
- Primary qualities are objective while secondary qualities are subjective
Q7 | John Locke has divided the qualities of things into ……… and ……..
- A priori, a posteriori
- Empirical, intuitive
- Primary, secondary
- All of these
Q8 | As an empiricist, Locke claims that all our knowledge is derived either through sensation or …….
- Perception
- Reflection
- Thinking
- None of these
Q9 | Which one of the following is true of Locke’s view of substance?
- Substance is the sum of qualities
- Substance is the substratum of qualities
- Substance is the sum of ideas.
- Substance is the logical construction of sense data
Q10 | Which one of the following arguments is advance by Locke for the rejection of innate ideas?
- If there were innate ideas, then all human beings would be identical
- If there were innate ideas then we should find them expressed in infants and untutored savages.
- If there were innate ideas then there must be a God who generates them
- If there were innate ideas than human beings should be eternal.
Q11 | Which one of the following is the correct definition of secondary qualities, according to Locke?
- Secondary qualities are nothing in the objects themselves but powers to produce sensations in us by their primary qualities.
- Secondary qualities are those which are imposed on the external objects by human mind.
- Secondary qualities are those that vary according to variations in conditions of perception
- Secondary qualities are those whose ideas are not exact resemblances of qualities of objects.
Q12 | Which among the following is NOT Locke’ view of ideas
- The mind is active in the reception of simple ideas
- The mind becomes active, when we get complex ideas
- Simple ideas are directly known as the contents of actual experience
- All ideas originate with and from experience
Q13 | An example for secondary quality
- colour
- figure
- extension
- solidity
Q14 | An example for primary quality
- colour
- taste
- Sound
- number
Q15 | A …………. is one which ‘being in itself uncompounded, contains in it nothing but one uniformappearance or conception in the mind and is no distinguishable into different ideas’. In other words it is an unanalyzable simple datum of knowledge.
- Simple Idea
- Complex Idea
- Mode
- Reflection
Q16 | Empiricism is the epistemological theory that the only source of knowledge about the externalworld is
- Reason
- intuition
- logic
- sense experience
Q17 | The philosophical position of Berkeley is known as:
- Subjective Idealism
- Innate Ideas
- Realism
- Absolute Idealism
Q18 | ‘To be is to be perceived’ according to:
- Berkeley
- Locke
- Hume
- Hegel
Q19 | Who claims that only mind and their ideas exist
- Spinoza
- Berkeley
- Locke
- Kant
Q20 | Berkeley asserts that existing and perceiving are
- One and the same thing
- Both nonexistent
- Two distinct things
- Imaginary
Q21 | Berkeley insists that heat and cold are …..
- Illusions
- physical object
- Only things existing apart from our minds
- Only sensations existing in our minds
Q22 | What did George Berkeley mean about such things as tables and chairs when he denied theexistence of matter?
- There are no unperceived tables and chairs.
- There are no tables and chairs
- Tables and chairs are really just swarms of particles in motion
- Everything, including tables and chairs, is an illusion.
Q23 | What was Berkeley’s explanation for the fact that things like rocks and trees seem to continueto exist even when humans don’t perceive them?
- They are material objects, so naturally they can exist unperceived.
- Appearances are deceiving. In fact such things do cease to be when we no longer perceive them
- Being partly mental, they continue to exist because they can perceive themselves.
- God always perceives them.
Q24 | Berkeley rejects Locke’s distinction between primary and secondary qualities because
- All qualities are subjective
- Only secondary qualities are subjective
- Qualities are created by God
- Qualities inhere in substances
Q25 | As all beings are particular things, so all ideas are particular ideas, is said by
- Locke
- Berkeley
- Descartes
- Kant