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251.

Which among the following is the feature of dialectics?

A. consensus and contradiction
B. conversation or question and answer form
C. dynamicity or movement
D. all of the above
Answer» E.
252.

Opposition is the basis of ........ Method

A. analytic
B. synthetic
C. dialectic
D. pragmatic
Answer» D. pragmatic
253.

A method for understanding reality by the triadic movement from thesis to antithesis to synthesis

A. analytical
B. mathematical
C. dialectical
D. phenomenological
Answer» D. phenomenological
254.

For -------everything was continually changing into its opposite.

A. zeno
B. heraclitus
C. parmenides
D. thales
Answer» C. parmenides
255.

Who takes dialectics as an argumentative process?

A. socrates
B. plato
C. aristotle
D. zeno
Answer» D. zeno
256.

In the ........ Plato seeks the definition of Courage

A. theaetetus
B. charmides
C. meno
D. laches
Answer» E.
257.

The two operative terms for the possibility and development of ideas under the method of dialogue.

A. consensus and contradiction
B. conversation and contradiction
C. dialogue and dialectics
D. none of the above.
Answer» B. conversation and contradiction
258.

The problem of universals was first introduced into philosophy by

A. aquinas
B. aristotle
C. plato
D. berkeley
Answer» D. berkeley
259.

The work ‘Theatetus’ is attributed to:

A. protagoras
B. plato
C. descartes
D. socrates
Answer» C. descartes
260.

Plato wrote the book:

A. the republic
B. meditations
C. ethics
D. metaphysics
Answer» B. meditations
261.

The conversational method of Socrates took the form of .......

A. sceptic
B. doubt
C. dialectic
D. none of the above
Answer» D. none of the above
262.

The Greek word ‘dialektos’ means:

A. conversation
B. argument
C. discussion
D. none of the above
Answer» B. argument
263.

The first to introduce the method of dialectics is:

A. socrates
B. plato
C. sophists
D. marx
Answer» D. marx
264.

Who used dialectics as an instrument for winning disputes?

A. sophist
B. plato
C. socrates
D. hegel
Answer» B. plato
265.

Kant’s claim to have devised a new technique of philosophical inquiry which is

A. direct
B. explicit
C. implicit
D. short
Answer» D. short
266.

For Kant the terms ‘a priori’ and --------------------have one and the same meaning.

A. empirical
B. rational
C. non-empirical
D. inductive
Answer» D. inductive
267.

Space and time, and the categories of understanding are treated as the-------------------- of knowledge by Kant

A. presuppositions
B. fundamentals
C. principles
D. impressions
Answer» B. fundamentals
268.

Many scholars observe ----------------------------------is a result of the application of Kant’s critical method.

A. antagonism
B. agnosticism
C. scepticism
D. solipsism
Answer» C. scepticism
269.

Some thinkers observe that Kant’s ‘Transcendental method’ lacks intellectual dynamism and it holds only

A. psychological dynamism
B. conceptual dynamism
C. theoretical dynamism
D. intuitive dynamism
Answer» B. conceptual dynamism
270.

Kant’s method guided the reason to

A. realisation
B. knowledge
C. truth
D. self contemplation
Answer» E.
271.

With the help of his Transcendental method Kant distinguished between the ‘matter’ and the -----------------------------------------------------------forms of knowledge.

A. empirical
B. rational
C. a priori
D. inductive
Answer» D. inductive
272.

According to Kant scepticism cannot be a ---------------------------method of philosophy.

A. transcendental
B. rational
C. inductive
D. intuitive
Answer» C. inductive
273.

Kant writes metaphorically--- ----------------------is a resting place for reason.

A. intuitionalism
B. empiricism
C. scepticism
D. solipsism
Answer» D. solipsism
274.

Kant called his critical method by the name of ---------------------------method also

A. transcendental
B. mathematical
C. inductive
D. intuitive
Answer» B. mathematical
275.

Bacon accepted the ------------- method of natural sciences.

A. transcendental
B. mathematical
C. inductive
D. intuitive
Answer» D. intuitive
276.

Hobbs and Descartes professed----------------------------------------method

A. transcendental
B. mathematical
C. geometrical
D. intuitive
Answer» C. geometrical
277.

Kant believed that Hume’s -------------------------------undermined the sciences.

A. intuitionalism
B. empiricism
C. scepticism
D. solipsism
Answer» D. solipsism
278.

Kant observed that, contradictory dogmatic philosophies inevitably lead to

A. intuitionalism
B. empiricism
C. scepticism
D. solipsism
Answer» D. solipsism
279.

Berkeley argues that all knowledge derived from

A. impressions.
B. ideas
C. theorems
D. laws
Answer» C. theorems
280.

Hume says that all knowledge derived from

A. propositions
B. axioms
C. theorems
D. impressions
Answer» E.
281.

The thing which will resist the doubt will constitute an ------------------------------- certainty.

A. self-evident
B. indubitable
C. theoretical
D. geometrical
Answer» C. theoretical
282.

Logical doubt of Descartes depends on

A. mind
B. intellect
C. will
D. consciousness
Answer» D. consciousness
283.

The doubt of Descartes should not be confused with ---------------------------------.

A. intuitionalism
B. empiricism
C. scepticism
D. solipsism
Answer» D. solipsism
284.

Who wrote ‘The Rules for the Direction of Mind’?

A. spinoza,
B. leibnitz
C. russell
D. descartes
Answer» E.
285.

Who gave primacy to intuition?

A. hume
B. locke
C. russell
D. descartes
Answer» E.
286.

Mathematics is a body of certain and-------------------------------- truths.

A. self-evident
B. mathematical
C. theoretical
D. geometrical
Answer» B. mathematical
287.

In the mathematical method we deduce other principles and propositions from --------

A. enumeration
B. complex deduction
C. association
D. axioms
Answer» E.
288.

The method which employs a long series of definitions, postulates, axioms, theorems and problems.

A. mathematical method
B. synthetic method
C. enumeration
D. intuitive method
Answer» C. enumeration
289.

To attain certainty and clarity in philosophy many philosophers recommended

A. mathematical method
B. synthetic method
C. enumeration
D. intuitive method
Answer» B. synthetic method
290.

According to Kant dogmatism has two forms viz. rationalism and --------------.

A. intuitionalism
B. empiricism
C. scepticism
D. solipsism
Answer» C. scepticism
291.

Descartes says that when deduction is ’complex and involved’ it may be termed -------

A. enumeration
B. complex deduction
C. association
D. complex intuition
Answer» B. complex deduction
292.

“---------------------------------” constitutes a definite and self-evident starting point for the Cartesian philosophy.

A. a priori
B. self-evident principles
C. cogito ergo sum
D. ergo cogito
Answer» D. ergo cogito
293.

The term ‘a priori’ means

A. empirical
B. a posteriori
C. after experience
D. before experience
Answer» E.
294.

Immanuel Kant’s method is known as

A. transcendental
B. mathematical
C. geometrical
D. intuitive
Answer» B. mathematical
295.

Descartes himself refuted ------------- as a philosophical method.

A. induction
B. deduction
C. syllogism
D. intuition
Answer» D. intuition
296.

Descartes considered -----------and -----------as the two criteria of true knowledge.

A. purity and clearness
B. clearness and distinctiveness
C. clearness and truthfulness
D. distinctiveness and purity
Answer» C. clearness and truthfulness
297.

What is the name of book in which Descartes stated his four rules of method?

A. discourse on the method
B. the method
C. ethics
D. on ideas
Answer» B. the method
298.

Spinoza’s method is known as

A. axiomatic
B. mathematical
C. theoretical
D. geometrical
Answer» E.
299.

--------------considered as the starting points of mathematical method.

A. propositions
B. axioms
C. theorems
D. laws
Answer» C. theorems
300.

“A philosophical system claims uniformity of method, but a truly philosophical spirit will rather aim at flexibility”. This statement is by

A. descartes
B. socrates
C. collingwood
D. wittgenstein
Answer» D. wittgenstein