Top 350+ Solved Modern Western Philosophy MCQ Questions Answer
Q. According to Descartes, the very idea of a perfect being implies His existence. This is the_______ proof of the existence of God.
a. Ontological
b. Cosmological
c. Causal
d. All these
Q. ___________ recognize sense perception as the source and standard of knowledge.
a. Rationalists
b. Empiricists
c. Idealists
d. Intuitionists
Q. ____________ is the author of Essay Concerning Human Understanding.
a. Spinoza
b. Descartes
c. Hegel
d. Locke
Q. Sensation and reflection are the primary sources of all ideas. This is the postulate of _________.
a. Rationalism
b. Idealism
c. Empiricism
d. None of these
Q. According to Locke, we understand the internal states of mind by __________.
a. Sensation
b. Intuition
c. Reflection
d. All these
Q. For ______________, knowledge is a posteriori.
a. Rationalists
b. Idealists
c. Intuitionists
d. Empiricists
Q. For ______________, true knowledge is a priori.
a. Empiricists
b. Idealists
c. Intuitionists
d. Rationalists
Q. According to Locke, qualities are divided into __________.
a. a priori and a posteriori
b. physical and mental
c. primary and secondary
d. empirical and spiritual
Q. ____________ is the dictum of Subjective Idealism.
a. Cogito ergo sum
b. esse est percipi
c. both (a) and (b)
d. neither (a) nor (b)
Q. The term Tabula rasa implies the rejection of _____________.
a. sense experience
b. empiricism
c. innate ideas
d. primary qualities
Q. Mentalism is another term for _____________.
a. Subjective Idealism
b. Rationalism
c. Absolute Idealism
d. None of these
Q. Ideas do not exist without a perceiving mind. This is the argument of __________.
a. Locke
b. Spinoza
c. Berkeley
d. Marx
Q. _________ rejected the existence of a material substance apart from the perceiver’s idea.
a. Berkeley
b. Locke
c. Spinoza
d. None of these
Q. Hume divided all perceptions into ____________.
a. primary and secondary
b. impressions and ideas
c. matter and mind
d. innate and acquired