Modern Western Philosophy Set 18
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This set of Modern Western Philosophy Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Modern Western Philosophy Set 18
Q1 | Why can’t we have cause and effect knowledge, according to Hume?
- We can never observe a constant conjunction between events.
- We can never observe the cause and the effect at the same time.
- We can never observe a necessary connection between events.
- We can never observe the atoms that make up the cause and the effect.
Q2 | Which among the following is NOT correct statement
- If we believe in the causal principle, he says, it is only through habit or custom that we do so, there is no rational basis for it.
- The mind is a kind of theatre, where perceptions successively make their appearance, pass and re-pass, glide away and mingle in an infinite variety of postures and situations.
- Hume’s point is that the idea of necessary connection between cause and effect is something that experience can give us.
- We have no knowledge that an external world exists, that physical substances exist, that a God exists.
Q3 | Synthetic unity of apperception is advocated by:
- Hegel
- Kant
- Leibniz
- Spinoza
Q4 | The expression ‘Copernican revolution in thought’ is attributed to:
- Kant
- Hegel
- Berkeley
- Spinoza
Q5 | Kant’s Copernican revolution in philosophy is …..
- The mind must approach the objects to be known at all
- The objects must approach the mind to be known at all
- Mind obtained reason because of sun
- None of the above
Q6 | Which one of the following concepts is associated with Immanuel Kant?
- Occasionalism
- tabula rasa
- esseestpercipii
- synthetic apriori
Q7 | In Transcendental Aesthetic, Kant discusses the theory of ….
- Knowledge
- Space and time
- Existence of God
- Morality
Q8 | According to Kant, knowledge begins with sense proceeds thence to …….. and ends in …..
- Understanding, reason
- Reason, Understanding
- Noumena, phenomena
- none of the above
Q9 | Kant has called his epistemological enquiry …….
- Critical
- Agnostic
- Transcendental
- Rational
Q10 | Kant’s philosophy is known as
- Criticism
- Rationalism
- Idealism
- Realism
Q11 | A proposition, in which the predicate does not belong to the subject, is known as …..
- Synthetic
- Analytic
- Simple
- Complex
Q12 | The critique of Pure Reason is really a treatise on …. With special reference to science
- Metaphysics
- Epistemology
- Axiology
- Aesthetics
Q13 | According to Kant, the laws of nature
- Do not exist
- Exist in our minds, and we apply them to construct nature as we experience it.
- Are intuited by the mind just like the rest of nature.
- Are abstracted from the judgments we make about nature
Q14 | Metaphysics is only possible if we can gain knowledge from statement which are
- Synthetic a posteriori
- synthetic a priori
- analytical a priori
- None of the above: metaphysics is never possible
Q15 | How does Kant say that our mind experiences intuitions?
- Intuitions are sudden flashes of insight about the world
- Intuitions are formed in the mind from concepts of understanding
- Intuitions are experienced in space and time
- Intuitions give us the framework which lets us interpret sense data
Q16 | According to Kant we know ourselves
- Only by the phenomenal self we experience in this world
- Through the innate obviousness of our own experience
- As both phenomenal and noumenalbeings
- Not at all, since all our selves are made up of false and illusory judgements
Q17 | According to Kant the ideas of reason are not …. But ….. principles of knowledge
- Regulative, constitutive
- Affirmative, negative
- Negative, affirmative
- Constitutive, regulative
Q18 | Why doesn't Kant think that we can have knowledge of the things-in-themselves (das ding- an-sich)?
- Because they have not yet been experienced.
- Because they are not physical in nature.
- Because they are not mental in nature.
- Because the organizing principles of the mind do not apply to them.
Q19 | The a priori conditions of all knowledge is advocated by:
- Kant
- Hume
- Locke
- Berkeley
Q20 | Who authored the book Critique of Pure Reason
- Immanuel Kant
- Hegel
- Rene Descartes
- Russell
Q21 | The concepts come to be applied to the sensible through the ………-schema.
- Time
- Space
- both time and space
- Neither time nor space
Q22 | -------------- means that there are a priori categories of the understanding which determine the objectivity of empirical statements and that by their means alone such statements can ever beobtained.
- Transcendental Analytic
- Transcendental Aesthetic
- Schema
- Transcendental Deduction
Q23 | The knowledge which is constructed by the understanding, by means of its categories, is theknowledge of ……………
- Phenomenon
- Noumenon
- things-in- themselves
- Phenomenon and Noumenon
Q24 | Which of the following is true for Kant
- Knowledge of the phenomena alone is possible
- Noumena remain unknown and unknowable.
- Noumena means a thing so far as it is not an object of our sensible intuition
- All of the above
Q25 | According to Kant, moral duty is
- The commandment of God
- Given by one’s intuition
- The imperative of pure reason
- Determined by majority