Modern Western Philosophy Set 16 MCQs

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