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COMMON P.G. ENTRANCE TEST–2022 (CPET-2022)
Subject Code : 36 Test Booklet No.:
Entrance Subject : Philosophy Hall Ticket No.:
TEST BOOKLET
Time Allowed : 90 Minutes Full Marks : 70
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1. Which one of the following is not compatible with Carvaka?
(A) Relativism
(B) Materialism
(C) Sense-Perceptualism
(D) Idealism
(A) There is no permanent self
(C) There is no origination of some elements
(B) Dristi-sristi vada
(C) Anekantavada
(D) Ksanabhanga vada
(A) Mediate
(B) Immediate
(C) Rational
(D) Moral
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(A) Five
(B) Six
(C) Seven
(D) Eight
(C) Essential cause
(C) Arambhavada
(D) None of the above
(A) Prakrti-parinamavada
(B) Brahma-parinamavada
(C) Vivartavada
(D) Arambhavada
(A) Isvara
(B) Brahman
(C) Supreme Soul
(D) None of the above
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(A) Consequentialism
(B) Relativism
(C) Universalism
(D) Empiricism
(A) Conditional command
(B) Unconditional command
(C) Relevant command
(D) None of the above
(A) to take revenge from the crime done
(B) to prevent future act of crime
(C) to reform the criminal
(A) to take revenge from the crime done
(B) to prevent future act of crime
(C) to reform the criminal
15. Which one of the following evaluates action on the basis of pleasure/happiness?
(A) Hedonist
(B) Rationalist
(C) Rigorist
(D) Perfectionist
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(D) None of the above
(A) Empirical
(B) Rational
(C) Factual
(D) None of these
18. Who accepts the quantitative altruism as a moral standard?
(A) J.S. Mill
(B) J. Bentham
(C) H. Sidgwick
(D) None of the above
(A) J.S. Mill
(B) J. Bentham
(C) H. Sidgwick
(D) None of these
(A) Appreciative judgments
(B) Descriptive judgements
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(D) None of the above
(A) Plato
(B) Descartes
(C) Spinoza
(D) Locke
(A) Right understanding
(B) Mental images
(C) Accurate things
(D) False appearances
(D) Inte ractioni sm
(A) Occasionalism
(B) Parallelism
(D) None of the above
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(A) Non-creative
(B) Indivisible
(C) Divisible
(D) Productive
(A) Reason
(B) Intuition
(C) Induction
(D) Custom
(A) Existence is one of the basic qualities of perception
(B) Existence is an inference from the fact of perception
(C) Existence is different from perception
(D) Existence consists in perception
(A) is self-evident and certain
(B) is gained through comparison
(C) We have in experience
(D) can be proved
(A) To criticise rationalism
(B) To criticise Locke
(C) To refute matter
(D) To refute idealism
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31. Which of the following theories posits a relationship between thought and things
(A) Ideas
(B) Concepts
(C) Names
(D) Forms
(A) two realistic view
(B) two idealist view
(C) one realistic view
(D) one idealistic view
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37. Who advocates that universals are not independent of the particulars?
(A) Aristotle
(B) Plato
(C) Locke
(D) Hume
(A) Parmenides
(C) Plato
(D) Aristotle
(A) Heraclitus
(C) Hegel
(D) Socrates
(A) Dialectic
(B) Concept
(C) Notion
(D) Doctrine
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(A) One
(B) Two
(C) Three
(D) Four
(C) Dialectic Method
(D) None of the above
43. What is fundamental dictum of Descartes?
(A) Monads
(B) Cogito Ergo Sum
(C) Nothingness
(D) Matter
(A) Involution
(B) Enlargement
(C) God
(D) Human being
(D) All of these
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(A) Freedom
(B) Justice
(C) Peace
(D) All of these
(A) Compromise
(B) Acceptance
(C) Perfect-liberation
(D) Bliss
(A) Gandhi
(B) Tagore
(C) Vivekananda
(D) Radhakrishnan
(A) End
(B) Means
(C) Acceptance
(D) Negation
(B) Present
(C) Medium Situations
(D) Large Situations
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51. Which of the following is not acceptable to Ambedkar?
(A) Krishnamurti
(B) Gandhi
(C) Radhkrishnan
(D) Ambedkar
(A) Aldo Leopold
(B) Arne Naess
(C) Peter Singer
(D) None of the above
(A) Intrinsic value
(B) Extrinsic value
(C) Both (a) and (b)
(D) None of the above
(A) Peter Singer
(B) Aldo Leopold
(C) Val Plumwood
(D) Arne Naess
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56.
(A) Anthropocentrism
(B) Egalitarianism
(C) Biocentrism
(D) None of the above
57.
(B) Passive euthanasia
(D) None of the above
58. Which of the following is the form of material implication?
(A) P & Q Q&P
(B) ~~P P
(C) P Q P Q
(D) None of the above
is called as
(A) Decision procedures
(D) Method of induction
60. If at least one propositional variable and its negation occurs in the disjunction then
(A) A contradiction
(B) Indeterminate
(D) Invalid
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61. P Q is false when
(A) Both P and Q are false
(B) P is true and Q is false
(C) Q is false and P is true
(A) Bound variable
(B) Constant
(C) Free variable
(A) The class that has no members
(B) The class that has at least one member
(D) None of the above
(A) The entities which are either the member of class A or class B
(B) The entities which are there in both class A and B
(C) The entities which are there in class A but not in class B
(D) None of the above
(A) fx
(B) ( x) fx
(C) (x) fx
(D) P Q
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(A) Executives
(C) Legislature
(D) Political Parties
(A) Social needs are being taken care of
(B) Cultural needs are being taken care of
(C) Basic needs are being taken care of
(A) Socialism
(B) Feminism
(C) Neo-liberalism
(B) Children right
(C) Commercial rights
(D) Death right
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