Top 350+ Solved Modern Western Philosophy MCQ Questions Answer
Q. Berkeley insists that heat and cold are …..
a. Illusions
b. physical object
c. Only things existing apart from our minds
d. Only sensations existing in our minds
Q. What did George Berkeley mean about such things as tables and chairs when he denied theexistence of matter?
a. There are no unperceived tables and chairs.
b. There are no tables and chairs
c. Tables and chairs are really just swarms of particles in motion
d. Everything, including tables and chairs, is an illusion.
Q. What was Berkeley’s explanation for the fact that things like rocks and trees seem to continueto exist even when humans don’t perceive them?
a. They are material objects, so naturally they can exist unperceived.
b. Appearances are deceiving. In fact such things do cease to be when we no longer perceive them
c. Being partly mental, they continue to exist because they can perceive themselves.
d. God always perceives them.
Q. Berkeley rejects Locke’s distinction between primary and secondary qualities because
a. All qualities are subjective
b. Only secondary qualities are subjective
c. Qualities are created by God
d. Qualities inhere in substances
Q. As all beings are particular things, so all ideas are particular ideas, is said by
a. Locke
b. Berkeley
c. Descartes
d. Kant
Q. Which one of the following vies truly explains the status of matter in the light of Berkeley’sthesis ‘esseestpercipii’?
a. Whatever is known is only substance or concrete things
b. Whatever is known is only ideas
c. We experience in perception only objects with qualities.
d. Apart from ideas, matter exists.
Q. Berkeley suggests, as all beings are particular, so all ideas are
a. Universal ideas
b. Particular ideas
c. Empirical ideas
d. None of these
Q. Berkeley ……..the assumption of general ideas in the mind and the belief in the existence of amaterial world outside it
a. Accepts
b. rejects
c. transforms
d. none of these
Q. Which among the following is NOT true for Berkeley?
a. Matter is not perceived.
b. The existence of matter is not based on inference
c. The existence of matter serves no useful purpose.
d. External objects are real and exist outside our min
Q. Which one of the following theses is the most fundamental to Berkeley’s world views?
a. All qualities are ideas and so any object consisting of qualitie4s is an ide
b. Qualities of an object do not inhere in a material substratum
c. Secondary qualities are the powers to produce sensations in us by their primary qualities.
d. Primary qualities are produced by our minds.
Q. Which one of the following is the view of Berkeley?
a. The nature of body consists not in weight, hardness, colour and the like, but in extension alone
b. Bodies are mere appearances of our outer sense, and not things-in-themselves.
c. Body is only a system of floating ideas without any substance to support them.
d. Body is composed of centres of force that are in a constant process of development.
Q. Which one of the following statements is not implied by Berkeley’s view that ‘to be is to beperceived’?
a. Ideas can exist only as long as they are being perceived.
b. Qualities cannot exist independently of the perceiving mind.
c. Objects cannot exist when they are not perceived by any mind.
d. Objects cannot exist when they are not perceived by human beings.
Q. Which one among the following does NOT figure in Berkeley’s rejection of abstract ideas?
a. There is no such thing in any mind as an abstract idea
b. Knowledge of external worlds is possible without the abstract idea ‘Matter’.
c. Acceptance of abstract ideas leads to atheism and materialism
d. A particular idea can be made to represent all other particular ideas of the same sort.