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UGC NET July 2018 Philosophy — Solved Previous Year Questions

100 previous-year questions from UGC NET July 2018 Philosophy (UGC NET) — each with the correct answer and a clear explanation. Use it as an answer key, or practise the full paper below.

  1. Vrtti, according to Nyaya, is a relation between: · Ans: C
  2. According to Nyaya, the objects of the visual sense-organ are also the objects of the tactual sense-organ except: · Ans: C
  3. Which type of hetvabhasa is committed by the following anumana? 'Mrnmayah parvatah vahniman' (the clay mountain has fire). Select the correct code: · Ans: C
  4. By what type of sannikarsa do we perceive patabhava (absence of a cloth) in a ghata (pot), according to the Nyaya? · Ans: D
  5. Which type of karana is Isvara (God) with respect to the world in philosophy? · Ans: D
  6. Which among the following is not compatible with the Vaisesikas? · Ans: D
  7. Given below are one Assertion (A) and a Reason (R). Consider them in the context of Carvaka philosophy and select the correct code: · Ans: B
  8. The view that the Atma (self) is vibhu (all-pervading) is upheld by: · Ans: D
  9. When the laksana of a word excludes the sakyartha completely, then in Nyaya-epistemology that laksana is called: · Ans: A
  10. Given below an Assertion (A) and a Reason (R). Consider them and select the correct code: · Ans: A
  11. Match Set I (Definition of Pratyaksa) with Set II (Thinker) and select the correct code: · Ans: A
  12. Akasa, according to the Vaisesikas, is: · Ans: D
  13. The liberated state, according to the Nyaya school, is devoid of: · Ans: D
  14. Atma, according to the Naiyayikas, can be: · Ans: D
  15. What type of karana is the colour of the threads in respect of the colour of the cloth, according to the Vaisesikas? · Ans: B
  16. Which type of hetvabhasa is committed by the following anumana? 'Vahni anusna, dravyatvat' (fire is not-hot, because it is a substance). Select the correct code: · Ans: B
  17. Match List I (School) with List II (Doctrine) and choose the correct code: · Ans: A
  18. Which one of the following propositions is not compatible with the Prabhakara school of Purva-mimamsa? · Ans: A
  19. Which one of the following is incompatible with Dvaita Vedanta? · Ans: B
  20. Write the correct sequence according to the Upanisads: · Ans: C
  21. Mark the incompatible of the following with reference to Kumarila's epistemology: · Ans: C
  22. Anvitabhidhanavada is supported by the following pair of philosophers: · Ans: A
  23. Among the following, what is acceptable to Samkara? · Ans: B
  24. The direct knowledge of the thoughts of others, according to Jaina Philosophy, is: · Ans: C
  25. What are the trinity principles espoused by Dr. Ambedkar? · Ans: D
  26. Which hetvabhasa is committed by the following anumana? 'Sabdah anityah caksusatvat' (sound is non-eternal because it is visible). Select the correct code: · Ans: A
  27. Given below are statements about a Karmayogin. Select the correct code given below: · Ans: C
  28. The basis of division of the four varnas according to the Gita is: · Ans: C
  29. Match List I with List II and choose the correct answer regarding khyativada (theories of error): · Ans: B
  30. Match List I (schools) with List II (theories of validity) and choose the correct answer: · Ans: C
  31. 'Treating equals equally and unequals unequally' is the view of: · Ans: C
  32. Who among the following has said that 'Personality and property go together'? · Ans: B
  33. Who among the following has identified three types of Justice: Distributive, Retributive and Commutative? · Ans: B
  34. 'Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen' can be attributed to: · Ans: D
  35. 'Either freedom of will is a fact or moral judgement is a delusion' is a statement of: · Ans: B
  36. Match List I (statements) with List II (schools of feminism) and choose the correct answer: · Ans: A
  37. Which of the following is the distinctive feature of ethical judgements, according to Stevenson? · Ans: D
  38. It has been pointed out that Mill's argument for the desirability of happiness suffers from the fallacy of: · Ans: D
  39. 'The goodness of an action is determined by its consequence' is the theory attributed to: · Ans: D
  40. According to Kant, moral laws are: · Ans: D
  41. Consider the syllogism below and identify the fallacy involved in it. 'All pets are domestic animals. No lions are domestic animals. Therefore, some lions are not pets.' · Ans: C
  42. Which combination of fallacies occurs if the rule 'Any term distributed in the conclusion must be distributed in the premises' is not followed? · Ans: C
  43. To obvert a proposition in an immediate inference: · Ans: C
  44. In the traditional square of opposition, if 'O' is true, then: · Ans: A
  45. Match List I (Figures) with List II (Moods) and choose the correct answer. List I: (i) First figure (ii) Second figure (iii) Third figure (iv) Fourth figure. List II: (a) Fresison (b) Ferio (c) Festino (d) Ferison. · Ans: A
  46. In which one of the following cases can an argument be invalid? · Ans: B
  47. Consider the following propositions and choose the correct answer: 'Some judges are lawyers' and 'Some judges are not lawyers'. · Ans: A
  48. If two propositions can both be true, but cannot both be false together, their relation is: · Ans: C
  49. Which one of the following rules of inference is employed in the argument: [N ⊃ (O · P)] · [Q ⊃ (O · R)], N ∨ Q, therefore (O · P) ∨ (O · R)? · Ans: C
  50. Which one of the following forms represents 'Modus Tollens'? · Ans: A
  51. Consider the following statements in the light of Plato's metaphysics and select the correct code: · Ans: D
  52. Which one of the following opined that 'Philosophy is based on precepts of reason, theology on truths of revelation held on faith, and philosophy serves as a handmaiden for theology'? · Ans: C
  53. Given below are Assertion (A) and Reason (R). Consider them in the light of Plato's Theory of Forms and select the correct code. · Ans: C
  54. Which one of the following statements appropriately represents the position of Nietzsche? · Ans: C
  55. Match List I (works) with List II (thinkers) and mark the correct code: · Ans: B
  56. Idealism is refuted by which of the following philosophers? Select the correct code: · Ans: C
  57. Which one of the following Logical positivists replaced 'Verification' with 'Confirmation' on the basis that although universal laws cannot be verified, they can be confirmed? · Ans: A
  58. 'Reality which is Absolute is a coherent thought system with logical connectivity' is the view that can be ascribed to: · Ans: A
  59. Which one of the following statements represents the philosophical position of Anaximander correctly? · Ans: A
  60. The theory of metempsychosis, or the transmigration of the soul, is ascribed to which one of the following Pre-Socratic philosophers? · Ans: A
  61. The purpose of Husserl's phenomenological reduction is to: · Ans: A
  62. Match List I (thinkers) with List II (works) and choose the correct code: · Ans: A
  63. Given below are Assertion (A) and Reason (R). Consider them and select the correct code: · Ans: A
  64. 'Matter is the permanent possibility of sensation.' This famous statement is from: · Ans: B
  65. All the following propositions except one are compatible with Leibniz's philosophy. Mark the incompatible one: · Ans: C
  66. Descartes's advocacy of interactionism and Spinoza's parallelism undermine: · Ans: A
  67. Mark the proposition incompatible with Hume's philosophy: · Ans: C
  68. Match List I with List II and choose the correct code: · Ans: A
  69. Consider (a), (b), (c) and (d), and then select the correct answer with reference to Descartes: · Ans: C
  70. Match List I with List II and choose the correct answer with the help of the code given below: · Ans: A
  71. Given below are an Assertion (A) and a Reason (R). Consider them and select the correct code with reference to Locke: · Ans: A
  72. Given below are Assertion (A) and Reason (R). Consider them and select the correct code: · Ans: C
  73. Given below are Assertion (A) and Reason (R). Consider them and select the correct code with reference to Berkeley: · Ans: A
  74. Match List I (doctrines) with List II (philosophers) and choose the correct answer with the help of the code given below: · Ans: A
  75. Select the correct option. The standard of scientific knowledge for Kant is: · Ans: C
  76. Rta in the Vedic tradition was identified with: · Ans: D
  77. Select the correct sequence of the states of the Upanisadic self: · Ans: B
  78. By what sannikarsa do we perceive the relation between a flower and its red colour, according to the Nyaya? · Ans: D
  79. Which one of the following statements is not acceptable to the Carvaka? · Ans: B
  80. What type of abhava of specific qualities is admitted by the Vaisesikas in the liberated self? · Ans: B
  81. What is the cause of the knowledge of nearness and farness (in space) according to the Vaisesikas? · Ans: C
  82. By which pramana does the Nyaya school prove the existence of Isvara (God)? · Ans: B
  83. Consider the following Assertion (A) and Reason (R) and select the correct code from the Vaisesika standpoint: · Ans: C
  84. Which one of the following is not a means of vyaptigraha (apprehension of invariable concomitance)? · Ans: C
  85. Which type of hetvabhasa is committed by the following anumana? 'This animal must be a cow because it possesses horseness.' Select the correct code: · Ans: C
  86. Which one among the following is not a nityadravya (eternal substance) according to the Vaisesikas? · Ans: B
  87. Match List I (stages of samadhi) with List II (descriptions) and choose the correct answer from the code given below: · Ans: A
  88. Given below are Assertion (A) and Reason (R). Consider them in the context of Buddhism and select the correct code: · Ans: D
  89. Given below are Assertion (A) and Reason (R). Consider them in the context of Buddhism and select the correct code: · Ans: D
  90. All the following propositions except one are compatible with the Prabhakara school of Purva-mimamsa. Mark the incompatible one: · Ans: C
  91. Given below are Assertion (A) and Reason (R). Consider them and select the correct code: · Ans: D
  92. Mark the proposition incompatible with the view of Visistadvaita Vedanta: · Ans: B
  93. Match List I (Vedantins) with List II (concepts) and choose the correct code: · Ans: A
  94. Anupalabdhi is an independent pramana according to: · Ans: C
  95. Which one of the following is not acceptable to Jain philosophy? · Ans: C
  96. Ambedkar's theory of relation is essentially: · Ans: C
  97. Which of the following is true regarding K.C. Bhattacharya's two branches of the Philosophy of the object? · Ans: C
  98. Given below are the four principles of existence: (a) The Super-Cosmic theory, (b) The Cosmic or the Terrestrial, (c) The Supraterrestrial or the other-worldly, and (d) The integral or the synthetic. Which one of the following philosophers has… · Ans: D
  99. The Gandhian view of trusteeship was not designed to: · Ans: D
  100. Which one of the following thinker-work pairs is correctly matched? · Ans: B

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