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This set of Western Metaphysics Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Western Metaphysics Set 3

Q1 | The concept of categories was advocated by :
  • kant
  • kant and aristotle
  • kant and locke
  • kant and berkeley
Q2 | According to Kant ----------judgments are always aposteriori
  • analytical
  • synthetic
  • ethical
  • none of these
Q3 | According to -----, monads are windowless
  • descartes
  • leibniz
  • spinoza
  • hegel
Q4 | In Transcendental Aesthetic, Kant discusses the theory of -----
  • space and time
  • morality
  • god
  • none of these
Q5 | ----- believes that there are no innate ideas in the mind
  • plato
  • spinoza
  • kant
  • locke
Q6 | ‘To be is to be perceived’ is a theory of---------
  • descartes
  • leibniz
  • spinoza
  • berkeley
Q7 | Leibniz belongs to ---------school
  • rationalism
  • empiricism
  • idealism
  • none of these
Q8 | Which one of the following is a work of Kant
  • ethics
  • monadology
  • critique of pure reason
  • all of these
Q9 | Berkeley is --------
  • pragmatist
  • rationalist
  • empiricist
  • none of these
Q10 | According to Berkeley matter is an----------
  • immanent idea
  • abstract idea
  • pure idea
  • none of these
Q11 | Pineal gland is the ------------ of the soul according to Descartes
  • subject
  • controller
  • seat
  • none of these
Q12 | The distinction between impression and idea was made by
  • kant
  • locke
  • hume
  • berkeley
Q13 | According to Berkeley
  • ideas but not the minds exist
  • minds but not the ideas exist
  • both ideas and the minds exist
  • neither ideas nor the minds exist
Q14 | Who among the following rejected matter as an abstract idea
  • hume
  • berkeley
  • descartes
  • none of these
Q15 | Who introduced the concept ‘Cogito ergosum’
  • spinoza
  • leibniz
  • kant
  • descartes
Q16 | The primary aim of Descartes is
  • to explain the relation between body and mind.
  • to prove the existence of god.
  • to refute the reality of the external world.
  • to reach clear and certain knowledge
Q17 | Who called God as Natura Naturata?
  • locke
  • kant
  • spinoza
  • hume
Q18 | ------ claims a material world which exists apart from perceiving mind, is unnecessary and false
  • hume
  • berkeley
  • descartes
  • none of these
Q19 | According to Leibniz the monads are ------ and everything is potential or implicit in it
  • modifications
  • windowless
  • strong
  • none of these
Q20 | The Critique of Pure Reason is really a treatise on ----- with special reference to science
  • epistemology
  • metaphysics
  • axiology
  • none of these
Q21 | Locke and Berkeley belong to -------- school
  • empiricism
  • rationalism
  • idealism
  • none of thes
Q22 | According to Spinoza body and mind
  • interact with each other
  • are causally related
  • are parallel to each other
  • none of these
Q23 | The first Philosophy refers to———
  • aesthetics
  • metaphysics
  • epistemology
  • ethics
Q24 | --------- defines monads as Centres of force or energy
  • kant
  • hegel
  • leibniz
  • hume
Q25 | Who is the principal exponent of representative realism
  • berkeley
  • locke
  • hume
  • none of these