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This set of Modern Western Philosophy Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Modern Western Philosophy Set 10

Q1 | Find the odd one out.
Q2 | _________ is/are not applicable to Descartes.1. French 2. Medieval 3. Empiricist d) Rationalist
Q3 | _________ is/are applicable to Descartes and Locke. 1. Medieval 2. Modern 3. Rationalist 4. Empiricist
Q4 | __________ propositions need no proof.
Q5 | According to Descartes, deduction and _________ are the means to attain true knowledge.
Q6 | According to Descartes, ___________ ideas are clear and distinct.
Q7 | ‘Cogito ergo sum’ refers to the idea of __________.
Q8 | Cartesian skepticism is precisely _____________.
Q9 | Dualism recognizes ____________.
Q10 | ___________ is not applicable to Spinoza.1. Monism 2. Rationalism 3. Dualism 4. Pluralism
Q11 | ‘A substance cannot depend on anything else, and hence there can be only one substance.’ Thisposition is precisely termed ______________.
Q12 | Psychophysical ___________ is the view of Spinoza.
Q13 | According to Spinoza, Reality is ____________.
Q14 | ‘Mind and matter are not substances’. This is the point of Spinoza’s disagreement with _______.
Q15 | Leibnitz conceived plurality of __________ substances.
Q16 | ‘No two monads can ever have any causal relation to each other’. Hence, they are __________.
Q17 | According to Leibnitz, Monads are ___________ in number.
Q18 | According to Leibnitz, ____________ pre-established the harmony between monads.
Q19 | Spinoza’s monism is a solution suggested to resolve the problem of ____________ in Cartesianphilosophy.
Q20 | ___________ was suggested as a hypothesis to solve the problem of mind-body interaction.
Q21 | According to Descartes, the very idea of a perfect being implies His existence. This is the_______ proof of the existence of God.
Q22 | ___________ recognize sense perception as the source and standard of knowledge.
Q23 | ____________ is the author of Essay Concerning Human Understanding.
Q24 | Sensation and reflection are the primary sources of all ideas. This is the postulate of _________.
Q25 | According to Locke, we understand the internal states of mind by __________.