Odisha CPET 2020 Question Paper Philosophy

COMMON P. G. ENTRANCE TEST – 2020

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DEPT. OF HIGHER EDUCATION, GOVT. OF ODISHA
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Subject Code 36 Subject PHILOSOPHY

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1. What is the function of philosophy ?

(A) It is to produce synergy.

(B) It is to produce clarity in thinking.

(C) It is to advise what to do and what not to do.

(D) It is to discover truths about the world.

2. Who says that mind in the beginning is a ‘tabula rasa’, a ‘dark chamber’, or an
‘empty cabinet’ ?

(A) Locke

(B) Berkeley

(C) Hume

(D) Russell

3. Match the following :

a. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding 1. Hegel

b. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding 2. Hume

c. Cartesian Meditations 3. Locke

d. The Phenomenology of the Mind 4. Husserl

Codes:

a b c d

(A) 3 2 1 4

(B) 2 1 4 3

(C) 3 4 1 2

(D) 2 3 4 1

4. Realism is the doctrine that :

(A) Whatever I perceive exists

(B) Whatever I conceive exists

(C) Objects exist independent of our perception

(D) Objects exist independent of our introspection
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5. Who, of the following, are idealists ?

(A) Plato, Aristotle and Bradley

(B) Berkeley, Bradley and Bergson

(C) Berkeley, Kant and Russell

(D) Plato, Berkeley and Bradley

6. Who has made the distinction between simple ideas and complex ideas ?

(A) Locke (B) Berkeley

(C) Hume (D) Kant

7. Which position Berkeley is led ultimately to by saying that esse est percipi ?

(A) Idea-ism (B) Scepticism

(C) Agnosticism (D) Solipsism

8. Who is the author of The Philosophy of Logical Atomism ?

(A) A. J. Ayer (B) B. Spinoza

(C) B. Russell (D) G. Frege

9. Who considers that ‘an unexamined life is not worth living’ ?

(A) Plato (B) Aristotle

(C) Socrates (D) Thales

10. Who holds that ‘man is the measure of all things’ ?

(A) Plato (B) Protagoras

(C) Zeno (D) Aristotle

11. Who said, “percepts without concepts are blind, concepts without percepts are
empty” ?

(A) Rousseau

(B) Hume

(C) Kant

(D) Hobbes
XL – 14/13 (4) ( Continued )

12. According to Ryle, what infects Descartes’ mind-body dualism ?
(A) Contradiction
(B) Ambiguity
(C) Category mistake
(D) Pictorial thinking

13. Which of the following is not a purusartha ?
(A) Jnana
(B) Artha
(C) Kama
(D) Moks.a

14. According to whom, nirguna Brahman is the ultimate reality ?
(A) Samkara
(B) Ramanuja
(C) Madhva
(D) Nimbarka

15. According to Ramanuja, what is liberation as nearness to Isvara, called ?
(A) Samipya
(B) Salokya
(C) Sajujya
(D) Sanidhya

16. According to whom is consciousness an epiphenomenon ?
(A) Carvaka
(B) Buddhism
(C) Samkhya
(D) Jainism
–mkhya ?
17. Which of the following is responsible for evolution in Sa
(A) Sattva
(B) Rajas
(C) Tamas
(D) None of these

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18. What is the theory “The effect is a real modification of the cause” called ?
(A) Vivartavada
(B) Parinamavada
(C) Satkaryavada
(D) Asatkaryavada

19. Which school believes that both the particulars and the universals are separately
real ?
(A) Nyaya – Vaisesika
(B) Sankhya – Yoga
(C) Buddhism – Jainism
(D) None of these

20. In which way the Buddhist pratityasamutpada can be defined ?
(A) There is no permanent self
(B) Whatever is, is momentary
(C) There is no origination of some elements
(D) Whatever originates, originates on some conditions

21. Who of the following are regarded as pluralists ?
(A) Jainaites
(B) Buddhists
(C) Vaisesikaites
(D) All of these

22. Who advocated the concept of anuvrata ?
(A) Lokayatikas
(B) Mahayana Buddhists
(C) Hinayana Buddhists
(D) Jainaites

23. Vaishesika believes in how many categories ?
(A) Five
(B) Six
(C) Seven
(D) Eight
XL – 14/13 (6) ( Continued )

24. Match items under List-I with items under List-II and mark the right option :
List - I List - II
a. The Madhyamika school 1. Representationism
b. The Yogacaya school 2. Direct realism
c. The Sautranika school 3. Subjective idealism
d. The Vaibhasika school 4. Nihilism
Code:
a b c d
(A) 2 1 4 3
(B) 3 4 2 1
(C) 4 3 1 2
(D) 1 2 4 3

25. Unlike Naiyayikas, both Pravakara and Kumarila admit ——————- as an
independent means of valid knowledge.
(A) Arthapatti
(B) Anupalabdhi
(C) Sabda
(D) All of these

26. Which of the Vedic literature discusses the Varna system ?
(A) Rigveda
(B) Samaveda
(C) Yajurveda
(D) Atharvaveda

27. Which of the following are included in the list of ten principal Upanisads ?
(A) Isha, Kena, Katha
(B) Mundaka, Mandukya
(C) Chhandogya and Brihadaranyaka
(D) All of these

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28. What does ‘Isa’ mean ?
(A) Personal God (B) Ruler
(C) Creator (D) Destroyer

29. What does the Sun symbolise ?
(A) Observer of actions (B) Virtue
(C) Destroyer of vice (D) Knowledge

30. Who advocated that democracy is a perverted form of government ?
(A) Aristotle (B) Bentham
(C) Churchill (D) Democritus

31. What is the Sarvodaya movement based on ?
(A) Truth
(B) Non-violence
(C) Self-denial
(D) All of these

32. Who has written An Idealist View of Life ?
(A) Tagore
(B) Radhakrishnan
(C) J. Krishnamurti
(D) K. C. Bhattacharya

33. Which of the following are the three catchwords for Ambedkar ?
(A) Caste, Varna and Karma
(B) Karma, Destiny and Rebirth
(C) Educate, Organise and Agitate
(D) None of these

34. Which of the following explains political disorder elaborately ?
(A) Plato’s The Republic
(B) Machiavelli’s The Prince
(C) Aristotle’s The Politics
(D) None of these

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35. Gandhi’s ideas of human freedom and civil disobedience are borrowed from
——————— and ——————— respectively.
(A) The Upanisads and Sri Aurobindo
(B) The Vedas and Tolstoy
(C) The Bhagavadgita and H.D. Thoreau
(D) The Bhagavadgita and Sri Aurobindo

36. Who holds that a special duty of a human being is strictly determined by his particular
station in life ?
(A) Kant (B) Bradley
(C) Manu (D) Kautilya

37. Which is the absolute value for ethics ?
(A) Truth (B) Beauty
(C) Goodness (D) Morality

38. Which doctrine advocates ‘greatest happiness of the greatest number’ ?
(A) Psychological Hedonism
(B) Egoistic Hedonism
(C) Altruistic Hedonism
(D) None of these

39. Which of the following statements are true ?
(i) Mill holds that quality as well as quantity of pleasure should be taken into
account.
(ii) Mill holds that quality of pleasure should be taken into account.
(iii) Bentham holds quantity of pleasure should be taken into account.
(iv) Bentham holds that quality as well as quantity of pleasure should be taken
into account.
(A) (i) and (iii)
(B) (ii) and (iii)
(C) (ii) and (iv)
(D) None of these

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40. Eudemonistic utilitarianism is advocated by :

(A) Mill (B) Bentham

(C) Plato (D) Kant

41. Which of the following does The Old Testament present ?

(A) Retributive theory (B) Reformative theory

(C) Both (A) and (B) (D) None of these

42. Which one of the following statements is correct ?

(A) Reason is the chief element of ethics

(B) Knowledge is the chief element of ethics

(C) Both (A) and (B)

(D) None of these

43. ———————- is the founder of Milesian school of philosophy ?

(A) Parmenides (B) Empedocles

(C) Thales (D) Pythagoras

44. Who is the advocate of deontology ?

(A) Socrates (B) Butler

(C) Broad (D) None of them

45. Who of the following are non-consequentialists ?

(A) Mill and Bentham (B) Bentham and Kant

(C) Kant and Plato (D) Plato and Mill

46. Who made a distinction between deep ecology and shallow ecology ?

(A) Aldo Leopold (B) Arne Naess

(C) Tom Regan (D) Peter Singer

47. For whom universalisability is a logical feature of moral judgements ?

(A) Plato (B) Plotinus

(C) Ayer (D) Hare
XL – 14/13 ( 10 ) ( Continued )

48. Whose philosophy projects the idea of ‘super mind’ ?

(A) Dr. S. Radhakrishnan

(B) Dr. T. M. P. Mahadevan

(C) Sri Aurobindo

(D) Dr. K. C. Bhattacharya

49. Who propounds that ‘Religion is not meant for empty belly’ ?

(A) Radhakrishnan (B) Tagore

(C) Vivekananda (D) Krishnamurti

50. “The mind creates the ideas of causality and necessity; we do not observe them.”
This statement can be attributed to which of the following modern western
philosophers ?

(A) Mill (B) Hume

(C) Descartes (D) Locke

51. The proposition “I jumped ten thousand feet into the air” is :

(A) Technically possible (B) Empirically possible

(C) Logically possible (D) None of these

52. The sentence “It cannot be both a table and not a table” is expressing :

(A) Law of causation

(B) Law of identity

(C) Law of excluded middle

(D) Law of non-contradiction

53. What is the position of the middle term in the fourth figure ?

(A) Subject term of both the premises

(B) Predicate term of both the premises

(C) Subject term of the major premise and Predicate term of the minor premise

(D) Predicate term of the major premise and Subject term of the minor premise
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54. If “All youngsters are cricket lovers” is true, then what can be inferred about truth or
falsity of the following ?

1. No youngsters are cricket lovers.

2. Some youngsters are cricket lovers.

3. Some youngsters are not cricket lovers.

4. No youngsters are non-cricket lovers.

Select the correct answer using the code given below :

(A) 1 is false, 2 is true, 3 is false, 4 is true

(B) 1 is true, 2 is true, 3 is false, 4 is true

(C) 1 is false, 2 is false, 3 is true, 4 is false

(D) 1 is false, 2 is true, 3 is true, 4 is true

55. If in a syllogism major premise is particular and minor premise is negative, then the
conclusion is —————.

(A) Particular (B) Universal

(C) Negative (D) No conclusion follows

56. “p & q” is equivalent to which of the following ?

(A) ~p ⊃ ~q (B) ~p ∨ q

(C) p & q (D) ~(~p ∨ ~q)

57. What is the status of the following argument ?

No M is P.

Some S is M.

∴ Some S is not P.

(A) Valid (B) Invalid

(C) True (D) False

58. In the formula “Fx ⊃ Gx”, ‘x’ is :

(A) Quantifier (B) Constant

(C) Proposition (D) Variable
XL – 14/13 ( 12 ) ( Continued )

59. Who, among the following, is the first man to make a map of the Earth ?
(A) Thales (B) Anaximander
(C) Heraclitus (D) Anaximenes

60. “Being is real” is the view of who of the following ——————.
(A) Heraclitus (B) Plato
(C) Parmenides (D) Zeno

61. Which theory is propounded by Descartes regarding the relationship between mind
and body ?
(A) Pre-established harmony
(B) Psycho-physical parallelism
(C) Interactionism
(D) None of these

62. Which philosopher made Descartes logically consistent ?
(A) Leibnitz (B) Spinoza
(C) Kant (D) Hegel

63. Which one of the following begins his metaphysics with the concept of representation
and ends with the harmony of the universe ?
(A) Spinoza (B) Leibnitz
(C) Locke (D) Plato

64. Sri Aurobindo is known as a –—————— .
(A) Advaitin (B) Dvaitin
(C) Purnavadin (D) Visistadvaitin

65. The Bhagavadgita advocates ——————.
(A) Renunciation of action
(B) Only self-surrender
(C) Renunciation in action
(D) None of these
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66. Which one of the following does not fit in with the rest ?
(A) Hedonism
(B) Emotivism
(C) Eudaemonism
(D) Utilitarianism

67. Which one of the following statements was put forward by Wittgenstein ?
(A) To be is to be perceived.
(B) I think, therefore I am.
(C) I am, therefore I think.
(D) Whereof one cannot speak, one must pass over in silence.

68. Who is the author of the paper “The Refutation of Idealism” ?
(A) Russell
(B) G. E. Moore
(C) Hume
(D) Locke

69. Who advanced the first cause argument in support of the belief in the existence of
God ?
(A) Thomas Aquinas
(B) Saint Anselm
(C) Rene Descartes
(D) Saint Augustine

70. Who first propounded the ontological argument for the existence of God ?
(A) St. Augustine
(B) St. Anselm
(C) Thomas Aquinas
(D) Rene Descartes

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