Modern Western Philosophy Set 17 MCQs

Q1 | Berkeley is …..

Idealist

Realist

Pragmatist

None

Q2 | Which one of the following vies truly explains the status of matter in the light of Berkeley’sthesis ‘esseestpercipii’?

Whatever is known is only substance or concrete things

Whatever is known is only ideas

We experience in perception only objects with qualities.

Apart from ideas, matter exists.

Q3 | Berkeley suggests, as all beings are particular, so all ideas are

Universal ideas

Particular ideas

Empirical ideas

None of these

Q4 | Berkeley ……..the assumption of general ideas in the mind and the belief in the existence of amaterial world outside it

Accepts

rejects

transforms

none of these

Q5 | Which among the following is NOT true for Berkeley?

Matter is not perceived.

The existence of matter is not based on inference

The existence of matter serves no useful purpose.

External objects are real and exist outside our mind.

Q6 | Which one of the following theses is the most fundamental to Berkeley’s world views?

All qualities are ideas and so any object consisting of qualitie4s is an idea.

Qualities of an object do not inhere in a material substratum

Secondary qualities are the powers to produce sensations in us by their primary qualities.

Primary qualities are produced by our minds.

Q7 | Which one of the following is the view of Berkeley?

The nature of body consists not in weight, hardness, colour and the like, but in extension alone

Bodies are mere appearances of our outer sense, and not things-in-themselves.

Body is only a system of floating ideas without any substance to support them.

Body is composed of centres of force that are in a constant process of development.

Q8 | Which one of the following statements is not implied by Berkeley’s view that ‘to be is to beperceived’?

Ideas can exist only as long as they are being perceived.

Qualities cannot exist independently of the perceiving mind.

Objects cannot exist when they are not perceived by any mind.

Objects cannot exist when they are not perceived by human beings.

Q9 | Which one among the following does NOT figure in Berkeley’s rejection of abstract ideas?

There is no such thing in any mind as an abstract idea

Knowledge of external worlds is possible without the abstract idea ‘Matter’.

Acceptance of abstract ideas leads to atheism and materialism

A particular idea can be made to represent all other particular ideas of the same sort.

Q10 | Who, among the following western philosophers attempted to refute ‘Matter’?

Kant

Berkeley

Locke

Hume

Q11 | Berkeley believes that sensible things cannot exist except in …….

A mind

absolute existence

material substance

material universe

Q12 | Which among the following is correct

According to Locke God, Mind and Matter are three kinds of substance

According to Descartes, Mind and Matter are three kinds of substance

According to Berkeley only Mind and their ideas exist

All the above

Q13 | Which among the following is NOT correct statement

According to Spinoza there is only one substance, i.e., God

According to Berkeley only Mind and their ideas exist

According to Descartes there is only one substance, i.e, God

According to the Absolute Idealism of Hegel there is only one reality

Q14 | Who claimed that an abstract idea does not exist.

David Hume

George Berkeley

John Locke

Plato

Q15 | The maxim of ‘esseestpercipii’ is put forward by:

Berkeley

Locke

Spinoza

Leibniz

Q16 | Which of the following books is NOT written by David Hume?

A Treatise of Human Nature

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

The Phenomenology of Spirit

An Enquiry concerning the Human Understanding

Q17 | According to Hume there are two kinds of contents of the mind, namely …..

Sensations and impressions

knowledge and ignorance

subjective and objective ideas

Impressions and their ideas

Q18 | According to Hume, ……… is secondary and ….. is primary.

Reflection, sensation

Complex, simple idea

Sensation, reflection

simple, complex idea

Q19 | Hume’s theory, that all impressions as such are distinct and separate with no logical connectionbetween them, is known as ……

Humean atomism

Humean skepticism

Humean agnosticism

Humean idealism

Q20 | Hume does not believe in ……

Causal relation exists

External world is unreal

Certainty of Knowledge

Moral principles and God are man-made entities.

Q21 | ‘Substance is a product of human imagination’ is said by …..

Descartes

Spinoza

Locke

Hume

Q22 | According to Hume, all knowledge is derived from:

Reason

Experience

Ideas

A priori

Q23 | David Hume is accepted as a:

Rationalist

Idealist

Materialist

Skeptic

Q24 | What is the self, according to Hume?

A sequence of perceptions

An immaterial, unchanging substance

A physical body

A social entity