Kerala SET 2019 Jul Question Paper _20_

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1. Which is the earliest Samhita in Indian Philosophy?
A) Samaveda B) Atharvaveda
C) Rig veda D) Yajurveda

2. The supreme end of the Bhagavad Gita is ------.
A) Jnana B) Fruitless action
C) Complete Surrender D) Identity with God

3. The locus and the object of Maya is
A) Soul B) God C) Brahman D) Avidya

4. Which one of the following constitute Karmakanda of the Vedas?
A) The mantras and Aranyakas B) Mantras and Brahmanas
C) Brahmanas and Aranyakas D) The Upanisads

5. The tattva-trayas recognised by Ramanucharya are -----.
A) Maya, Avidya and Narayana B) Soul, World and Maya
C) Matter, Soul and God D) Maya, Avidya and Brahman

6. Ultimately reality according to Sankara is -----.
A) God B) Maya
C) Identical with Narayana D) Pure consciousness

7. Aprthaksiddhi relationship is explained by ------.
A) Sankara B) Ramanuja C) Gauthama D) Kapila

8. Perception is not accepted as means of valid knowledge by the ------.
A) Charvaka System B) Advaitha system
C) Nyaya system D) None of the above

9. Tattvopaplavasimha is written by:
A) Madhava B) Vallabha
C) Jayarashi Bhatta D) Nimbarka

10. Consciousness is dependent on matter - this view is given by:
A) Visistadvaita B) Suddhadvaita
C) Neo- vedanta D) Carvaka materialism

11. Which one of the following is related to Pratityasamutpadavada
A) Everything is always changing
B) Sarvamdukha
C) There is no self
D) If the conditions do not operate the effect cannot exist

12. ‘We can know only some aspects of reality and so all our judgements are relative’ this
is what is known as:
A) Anekandavada B) Pratityasamudpadavada
C) Ekandavada D) Syadvada

13. Tripitakas are written in ----- literature.
A) Sanskrit B) Arthamagathi
C) Pali D) All of the above

14. The self according to Buddhism is
A) An aggregate of mind and spirit
B) An aggregate of spirit
C) An aggregate of mind and body
D) An aggregate of matter

15. Who is the founder of Nyaya System?
A) Kanada B) Gautama C) Vardhamana D) Kapila

16. How many categories are accepted by the Nyaya System?
A) 9 B) 16 C) 7 D) 8

17. The system that is based on the Karmakanda of the Vedas is:
A) Samkhya B) Advaita C) Mimamsa D) Dvaita

18. Match the following:
1. Arya Satyas a) Jainism
2. Anekandavada b) Buddhism
3. Vyaptijnana c) Patanjali
4. Astanga Yoga d) Anumana

A) 1-c, 2-d, 3-b, 4-a B) 1-b, 2-a, 3-d, 4-c
C) 1-b, 2-d, 3-a, 4-c D) 1-b, 2-a, 3-c, 4-d

19. The dhvani theory is based on the work of ------.
A) Kumaradasa B) Bhoja
C) Kuntaka D) Anandavardana

20. Who is credited with having originated the Rasa theory?
A) Abhinavagupta B) Bharata
C) Anandavardhana D) Kumaradasa

21. According to Gandhiji which one of the following may be regarded as an Indian
alternative to the western concept of Socialism and Communism?
A) Satyagraha B) Bread labour
C) Sarvodaya D) Trusteeship

22. ------- believes in the religion of man.
A) Dr.Radhakrishnan B) Krishnamurthi
C) Tagore D) Gandhiji

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23. Raja Yoga is the way to the realisation of immortality by-----.
A) Good work and unselfishness
B) Non-attachment
C) Love
D) Controlling the mind and the body.

24. Who said that ‘religion is a necessity of life.’?
A) Aurobindo B) Kierkagaard
C) Swami Vivekananda D) SreeNarayana Guru

25. The expressions that have been frequently used for the Absolute by Tagore is ----.
1. The universal man 2. The supreme person
3. The supreme spirit 4. The infinite personality

A) 1 and 2 B) 1, 2 and 3
C) 1 only D) All of the above

26. According to Sri. Aurobindo the link between higher sphere and the lower sphere is:
A) Mind B) Supermind C) Psyche D) Life

27. Who among the following is considered to be the father of the Indian Renaissance
movement?
A) Raja Ram Mohan Roy B) Swami Vivekananda
C) Gandhiji D) Kelappan

28. “Bhakti’ gives birth to jnana as a mother gives birth to a child” This was expressed by:
A) SreeNarayanaguru B) Vivekananda
C) Ramana Maharshi D) Gandhiji

29. Whose Philosophy is known as Purna-advaita?
A) SreeSankara B) Swami Vivekananda
C) Aurobindo D) Ramana Maharshi

30. Creation according to Sri. Aurobindo is a process of ------.
A) Descent and ascent B) Involution and evolution
C) Both A and B D) Mechanical manifestation

31. Evolutionary growth according to Aurobindo is the process and this involves process
of -----.
A) Widening B) Heightening
C) Integration D) All of the above

32. ‘Who am I’ was written by
A) Vivekananda B) Ramana Maharshi
C) Sree Narayana Guru D) Chattambi Swamikal

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33. Examine the following statements:
1. Manu is older than Manoj.
2. Krishna is older than Manu.
3. Manoj is older than Krishna.

If the first two statements are True, then the third statement is -----.
A) True B) False
C) Can be true or false D) Uncertain

34. The ultimate reality according to Radhakrishnan has to be-------.
A) Personal God B) Principles of the universe
C) Saguna Brahman D) Spiritual

35. In Gandhiji’s Philosophy means and end are------.
A) End is high
B) Means are important
C) Means and end are convertable terms
D) End justifies the means.

36. The most important contribution of M.N Roy to Philosophy is ______
A) Rationalism B) Radical Humanism
C) Universalism D) Idealism

37. Assertion (A) : There are six orthodox systems in Indian Philosophy.
Reason (R) : All orthodox systems of Indian Philosophy are atheistic.

A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
B) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is not the correct explanation of (A)
C) (A) is true, but (R) is false
D) (A) is false, but (R) is true

38. ‘Waiting for a Visa’ is the autobiography of -----.
A) J.Krishmurti B) M.N. Roy
C) Tagore D) Ambedkar

39. Assertion (A) : All propositions are sentences.
Reason (R) : All sentences are propositions.

A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
B) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is not the correct explanation of (A)
C) (A) is false, but (R) is true
D) (A) is true, but (R) is false

40. Who wrote ‘Daiva Dasakam’
A) Sree Narayanaguru B) Chattambi Swamikal
C) Sankaracharya D) Thiruvalluvar

41. According to Plato ideas are------.
A) Absolute B) Eternal
C) Timeless D) All of the above

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42. Pre- established harmony was put forward by ------.
A) Locke B) Leibniz C) Descartes D) Spinoza

43. Who said that “It was Hume’s Essays which awaked me from dogmatic slumber”-
A) Berkely B) Immanuel Kant
C) Hegel D) Leibniz .

44. Which Philosopher’s theory is known as Pluralistic metaphysical idealism?
A) Descrtes B) Spinoza
C) Leibniz D) Immanuel Kant.

45. Idealism of ------ is a synthesis of Rationalism and Empiricism.
A) Immanuel Kant B) Kocke
C) Hegal D) Plato

46. The ‘Science of Logic’ is written by------.
A) Kant B) Hegel C) Marx D) Locke

47. Descartes Philosophical method is ------.
A) Cartesian method
B) Method of doubt
C) The implementation of mathematical method into the field of philosophy
D) All of the above

48. ‘Every determination is negation’ is the famous maxim of ------.
A) Leibniz B) Spinoza C) Descartes D) Kant

49. Berkely’s system is popularly known as -----.
A) Objective idealism B) Subjective idealism
C) Agnosticism D) Materialism

50. Who said that ‘the real is rational and rational is real’?
A) Descartes B) Spinoza C) Kant D) Hegel

51. The father of modern empiricism
A) Berkeley B) Hume C) Locke D) John Dewey

52. ------- refutes the theory of innate ideas.
A) Leibniz B) Descartes C) Spinoza D) Locke

53. Spinoza was known as a ------.
A) Atheist B) Pantheist C) Pluralist D) Dualist

54. According to Locke all our knowledge is attained through ------.
A) Intuition B) Reason
C) Experience D) Divine power

55. “The law of causality indicates mere possibility, no certainity or invariability” this
view was expressed by -----.
A) Locke B) Berkely C) Hume D) Kant

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56. According to ------philosophy passes from facts to God, theology from God to facts.
A) Descartes B) Hume
C) St. Thomas Aquinas D) J.Krishnamurti

57. Who was the author of the book ‘An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding’?
A) Berkeley B) Locke C) Hume D) Hegel

58. Observe the following statements and state whether they are true or false based on the
options given below:
1. Gilbert Ryle used the expression Ghost in the Machine.
2. Either – Or is the book written by Karl Jaspers.
3. Man is the measure of all things is a famous statement of Socrates.
4. Jacques Derrida was a French Philosopher.

A) All statements are true
B) Statements 1 & 2 are true and 3 & 4 are false
C) Statements 1, 2 & 3 are true and 4 is false
D) Statements 1 & 4 are true and 2 & 3 are false

59. The four idols prescribed by Bacon are idols of tribe, cave, market place and -----.
A) College B) Village C) Theater D) Church

60. Match the Following
1. Locke a Mystery and Problem
2. Heideggar b Scepticism
3. Marcel c Tabula rasa
4. Hume d Dasein

A) 1-c, 2-b, 3- d, 4-a B) 1-c, 2-d, 3- a, 4- b
C) 1-b, 2-d, 3-c, 4-a D) 1-c, 2-a, 3-d, 4-b

61. Who put forward the famous dictum “existence precedes essence?”
A) Kierkegaard B) Sartre C) Marcel D) Nietzsche

62. Existentialism has become an influential movement in the -------.
A) 19th century B) 20th century C) 21st century D) 18th century

63. Who is considered as the father of Existentialism?
A) Sartre B) Heidegger
C) Kierkegaard D) Karl Jaspers

64. The centre of existentialist philosophy is:
A) Soul and God B) Objectivity
C) Super human being D) Concrete man

65. Who believed that an unexamined life is useless?
A) Kierkegaard B) Sartre C) Socrates D) Nietzsche

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66. Kierkegaard did not believe in------.
A) Subjectivity B) Individual self realisation
C) Collective Self-realisation D) God

67. Who is the author of the book ‘Being and Nothingness’?
A) Nietzsche B) Heidegger C) Sartre D) Marcel

68. Find out the fallacy in the following argument.
All birds are animals.
No reptiles are birds.
No reptiles are animals.

A) Illicit Major B) Illicit Minor
C) Undistributed Middle D) Ambiguous Major

69. Point out the feature that is not applicable to Kierkegaard’s conception of aesthetic man:
A) Search for pleasure.
B) Recognizes dignity of man
C) Attracted towards external circumstances
D) Behaves according to his impulses and emotions

70. According to Kierkegaard the best model for ethical life is -----.
A) Socrates B) Kant C) Moore D) J.S. Mill

71. “To be men, to continue to remain men” was the motto of ------.
A) Marcel B) Kierkegaard C) Neitzsche D) Sartre

72. Existential Dialectic is presented by
A) Hegel B) Kierkegaard C) Kant D) Marx

73. ‘The Philosophy of Arithematic’ was written by -----.
A) Brentano B) Husserl C) Sartre D) Kierkegaurd

74. Who said that ‘God is dead?”
A) Nietzsche B) Sartre C) Heidegger D) Marcel

75. Who said that “man is only the sum total of his actions besides his actual daily life he
is nothing”.
A) Sartre B) Marcel C) Kierkegaard D) Nietzsche

76. Read the following sentences and state whether they are true or false
1. According to Heidegger the being that truly exists is the being of man
2. Hume expressed that causality is a probability
3. Marcel believes that the essence of man is to be in a situation
4. Existentialists reacted against the dehumanizing tendencies of the traditional
philosophy

A) Statement 1, 2 and 4 are true and 3 is false
B) Statements 1 and 2 are true and 3 and 4 are false
C) Statements 1 and 4 are true and 2 and 3 are false
D) All the four statements are true

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77. According to Karl Popper the Hallmark of scientific theories is their systematic ----.
A) verifiability B) falsifiability
C) conventionality D) paradigm shift

78. Which among the following is not a work of Karl Popper?
A) The Logic of Scientific Discovery
B) The Structure of Scientific Revolution
C) Conjectures and Refutations
D) Objective Knowledge: An Evolutionary Approach

79. The term incommensurable means:
A) to have no methodological rules
B) to have methodological rules
C) to have common measure
D) to have no common measure

80. According to Popper, which is the central problem of the Philosophy of Science?
A) demarcation B) scientific method
C) pseudoscience D) mystery

81. Who wrote ‘Against Method’?
A) Karl Popper B) Bertrand Russel
C) Paul Karl Feyerabend D) Wittgensein

82. Variables are symbols whose meaning is not -----.
A) Varies B) Constant
C) Both A and B D) None of the above

83. A horse shoe symbol is used to signify ------.
A) Material equivalence B) Strong disjunction
C) Material implication D) Conjunction

84. A curl or tilde is used to symbolize
A) Conjunction B) Disjunction
C) Material equivalence D) Negation

85. In case ‘p’ is true and ‘q’ is true p.q is -----.
A) True B) False
C) Neither true nor false D) True and false

86. A material implication is false only if the antecedent is ------and the consequent is ----.
A) False, true B) True, false C) False, false D) True, true

87. A statement form that has only true substitution instances is said to be------.
A) Contingent B) Contradiction
C) Tautology D) Compound statement

88. P ≡ ~~ P is proved to be ----.
A) Contingent B) Tautology
C) Contradiction D) None of the above

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89. Universal propositions having the same subject and predicate terms but differ only in
quality are ------.
A) Contrary B) Sub contrary
C) Subaltern D) Contradictory

90. The process by which a conclusion is inferred from multiple observations is called----.
A) Deduction B) Induction C) Conversion D) Obversion

91. ‘A’ and ‘O’ Propositions are
A) Contrary B) Contradictory
C) Sub Contrary D) Sub alternation

92 The term of the syllogism, which does not occur in the conclusion, but appear in both
premises, is called the ------.
A) Major term B) Minor term C) Middle term D) Conclusion

93. If two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation have only one
circumstance in common, the circumstance in which alone all the instances agree is the
cause or effect of the given phenomenon- this method is ------.
A) Method of difference B) Method of residues
C) Method of agreement D) Method of concomitant variation

94. The Meta ethical theory which entails that no one has any moral knowledge or
moral knowledge is impossible.
A) Prescriptivism B) Universalisability
C) Moral Skepticism D) Instumentalism

95. Who is considered as the chief exponent of Emotivism?
A) Russell B) Ayer C) Hare D) Carnap

96. ‘Language Truth and Logic’ was written by -----.
A) Ayer B) Stevenson C) Carnap D) Russell

97. An ethical frame work that grants ‘moral standing’ solely to human beings is known
as-----.
A) Technocentrism B) Antropocentrism
C) Deep ecology D) Shallow ecology

98. “The Ecology of Wisdom” was written by
A) Carson B) Arne Naess
C) Carolynmerchant D) Hare

99. Who initiated the Chipko Movement?
A) Sunderlal Bahuguna B) Chandi Prasad bhatt
C) Gaura Devi D) Medha Patkar

100. Who got ‘the Right livelihood’ award in 1991?
A) Sundarlal Bahuguna B) Ganara Devi
C) Medha Patkar D) Chandi Prasad bhatt

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101. The process of testing and validating an information technology system to determine
its weakness and asses its vulnerabilities is known as -----.
A) Cyber ethics B) Ethical hacking
C) Coding D) Media ethics.

102. Who argues that “mind is a philosophical illusion hailing chiefly from Descartes and
sustained by logical error and category mistake which have become habitual”
A) Churchland B) Frege C) Wittgenstein D) Ryle

103. A meaningful Proposition pictured a state of affairs or atomic fact. This is known as:
A) Sense datum theory B) Picture theory
C) Theory of description D) Verification theory

104. The principal exponent of logical atomism is -----.
A) Popper B) Wittegenstein
C) Russell D) Derrida

105. The theory of sense and reference was outlined by -----.
A) Wittgenstein B) Russell C) Frege D) Sassure

106. Structuralism is widely regarded to have its origin in the work of the linguistic
theorist------.
A) Ferdinand de Saussure B) Faucault
C) Levi Strauss D) Jaques Lacan

107. The concrete manifestation of a language is known as ------.
A) Langue B) Parole
C) Signifier D) Pre – existing structure

108. ‘Prison Notebooks’ was written by -----.
A) Nehru B) Ambedkar
C) Antonio Gramsci D) Deleuze

109. Who developed a form of semiotic analysis known as deconstruction?
A) Saussure B) Lyotard C) Derrida D) Deleuze

110. Ideological state apparatus is a term developed by Althusser to denote, institutions
such as:
A) Family, media B) Education, law
C) Churches, trade union D) All of the above

111. The flower of rose sold in the market has -----value
A) Instrumental value B) Intrinsic value
C) Permanent value D) Social value

112. Immanuel Kant claims that a good will is -----.
A) An unconditional good
B) Conditional good
C) It is rational will which is dependent on other conditions
D) Particular moral law.

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113. The happiness and general human well-being of any individual is possible only when
all the potentialities of that individual are actualised. This ethical point of view is ----.
A) Existential psychology B) Extra mental
C) Eudaemonism D) Extrojection

114. The morality of an action should be based on whether that action itself is right or
wrong under a series of rules, rather than based on consequences of action. This
normative ethical theory is -----.
A) Teleological approach B) Deontological ethics
C) Ethical Hedonism D) Intuitionism

115. Who among the following was an advocate of prescriptivism?
A) J.L Austin B) Elizabeth Anscombe
C) R.M.Hare D) Shaftesbury

116. The function of moral judgement is not to report emotion but to express it, this view
is known as ------.
A) Hedonism B) Naturalism
C) Eudemonism D) Emotivism

117. The quantitative aspect of Utilitarianism was stressed by -----.
A) Mill B) A J. Ayer C) Bentham D) Compte

118. The theory known as instrumentalism was developed by -----.
A) Compte B) John Dewey
C) Bentham D) A. J. Ayer

119. ‘Good’ is not a natural property of anything’ this view is given by -----.
A) A J. Ayer B) Complete C) G.E. Moore D) J.S. Mill

120. Who said that “the postulate of God is a need or requirement of our consciousness?”
A) Stevenson B) R. M. Hare
C) David Ross D) Kant

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