Top 350+ Solved Modern Western Philosophy MCQ Questions Answer
Q. Which one of the following according to Locke justifies the distinction between primary andsecondary qualities?
a. God has created primary qualities
b. Secondary qualities are given in experience
c. Primary qualities and secondary qualities are logically different
d. Primary qualities are objective while secondary qualities are subjective
Q. John Locke has divided the qualities of things into ……… and ……..
a. A priori, a posteriori
b. Empirical, intuitive
c. Primary, secondary
d. All of these
Q. As an empiricist, Locke claims that all our knowledge is derived either through sensation or …….
a. Perception
b. Reflection
c. Thinking
d. None of these
Q. Which one of the following is true of Locke’s view of substance?
a. Substance is the sum of qualities
b. Substance is the substratum of qualities
c. Substance is the sum of ideas.
d. Substance is the logical construction of sense data
Q. Which one of the following arguments is advance by Locke for the rejection of innate ideas?
a. If there were innate ideas, then all human beings would be identical
b. If there were innate ideas then we should find them expressed in infants and untutored savages.
c. If there were innate ideas then there must be a God who generates them
d. If there were innate ideas than human beings should be eternal.
Q. Which one of the following is the correct definition of secondary qualities, according to Locke?
a. Secondary qualities are nothing in the objects themselves but powers to produce sensations in us by their primary qualities.
b. Secondary qualities are those which are imposed on the external objects by human mind.
c. Secondary qualities are those that vary according to variations in conditions of perception
d. Secondary qualities are those whose ideas are not exact resemblances of qualities of objects.
Q. Which among the following is NOT Locke’ view of ideas
a. The mind is active in the reception of simple ideas
b. The mind becomes active, when we get complex ideas
c. Simple ideas are directly known as the contents of actual experience
d. All ideas originate with and from experience
Q. Empiricism is the epistemological theory that the only source of knowledge about the externalworld is
a. Reason
b. intuition
c. logic
d. sense experience
Q. The philosophical position of Berkeley is known as:
a. Subjective Idealism
b. Innate Ideas
c. Realism
d. Absolute Idealism
Q. Berkeley asserts that existing and perceiving are
a. One and the same thing
b. Both nonexistent
c. Two distinct things
d. Imaginary