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UGC NET September 2024 Philosophy — Solved Previous Year Questions

100 previous-year questions from UGC NET September 2024 Philosophy (UGC NET) — each with the correct answer and a clear explanation. Use it as an answer key, or practise the full paper below.

Arrange the following in ascending order of certainty in accordance with Locke's view of knowledge: · Ans: C
Who among the following thinkers advocates the view that for philosophy to be a rigorous science it must return to what is given in experience in its generality prior to all theorizing and interpretation? · Ans: B
“I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. The will to a system is a lack of integrity.” This view can be attributed to which of the following thinkers? · Ans: A
Match List - I with List - II. · Ans: D
Which of the following beliefs are challenged by Hume? · Ans: A
Which of the following form the main concerns of Logical Positivists? · Ans: B
Which of the following principles are propounded by Leibniz? · Ans: D
Arrange the following texts in chronological order: · Ans: A
Match List - I with List - II. · Ans: C
Which of the following schools of classical Indian philosophy accepts fruitful activity (arthakriyakaritva) as test of validity of cognition? · Ans: A
The philosophical view of accidentalism (yadrcchavada) is attributed to which of the following schools of Indian philosophy? · Ans: D
Which of the following schools of Classical Indian Philosophy maintains that soul can be as big or as small as the body it occupies? · Ans: A
Which of the following schools of Classical Indian Philosophy does not distinguish between the process of cognition and the result of cognition? · Ans: D
For which of the following schools of Classical Indian Philosophy hearing a word as a sound is perception and knowing its meaning is inference? · Ans: C
Match List - I with List - II. · Ans: B
Which of the following Classical Indian Philosophical texts begins with the aphorism - “now starts the enquiry into dharma.” (athato dharma jijnasa): · Ans: B
Which school of Classical Indian Philosophy maintains that absence is not a positive entity and that positive entities alone belong to reality and can be cognised? · Ans: C
Who among the following thinkers states “The point is that the atom I wish to arrive at is the atom of logical analysis, not the atom of physical analysis”? · Ans: D
“What kind of relation makes a proposition true and what false, cannot be further defined, but must be immediately recognised.” Who among the following thinkers adheres to the above stated view? · Ans: C
“Dharma (is) that from which (results) the accomplishment of exaltation (abhyudaya) and of supreme good (nihsreyasa).” Which schools of Indian philosophy accept the above view? · Ans: D
Match List - I with List - II. · Ans: C
Who among the following philosophers are supporters of subjective idealism? · Ans: A
Match List - I with List - II. · Ans: A
Who among the following leading theorists on multiculturalism has called for “group-differentiated rights”? · Ans: C
Match List - I with List - II. · Ans: D
Who states the following? “Morality, religion, metaphysics and all the rest of ideology as well as the forms of consciousness corresponding to these, thus no longer retain the semblance of independence.” · Ans: B
“The passage from the state of nature to civil state produces a very remarkable change in man”. Whose statement is this? · Ans: B
Which of the following statements are false about the moral systems and philosophers? · Ans: A
Which fallacy is committed in the following syllogism? Some dogs are friendly; No friendly animals bark; Therefore, No dogs bark. · Ans: C
Which one of the following statement forms is tautologous? · Ans: B
By using Truth-tables for testing the validity of arguments, find out which of the following argument forms are valid? · Ans: B
Translate the following into the logical notation of propositional functions and quantifiers. In each case, use the abbreviation suggested. ‘No automobile that is over ten years old will be repaired if it is severely damaged.’ (Ax: x is… · Ans: A
Match List - I with List - II. · Ans: C
Find the truth-value of the following statements, given P and Q are true; and R is false: [P ⊃ (∼Q ⊃ R)] ∨ ∼P · Ans: A
Match List - I with List - II. · Ans: C
Who among the following consider Jiva as an ‘amsa’ or part of Brahman? · Ans: A
Match List - I with List - II. · Ans: A
Which one among the following correctly describes ‘Alayavijnana’ (store-house of consciousness), according to Lankavatara Sutra? · Ans: B
Which one of the following is not a correct description of ‘Apurva’, according to the Purva-Mimamsa school? · Ans: D
Match List - I with List - II. · Ans: B
The term ‘trayi’ in Kamandakiya Nitisara stands for: · Ans: A
Who is the author of the text Nyayabindu? · Ans: C
Arrange the elements of the causal wheel of Dependent Origination in sequential order. · Ans: A
Which among the following are true of kinds of Sciences Aristotle categorizes in Metaphysics? · Ans: D
Which among the following is in accordance with Plato's conception of ‘virtue’ and ‘knowledge’ in the Meno? · Ans: D
“Cold” means only “not hot”, and “dark” means only “not light”. “The One” is to be conceived as material and extended. Whose metaphysical proposal would subscribe to this? · Ans: A
Which among the following philosophers of the Milesian school held that all things come from a single primal substance? · Ans: A
Arrange the following classical Indian thinkers in chronological order. · Ans: B
Which of the following are among the three laws of thought? · Ans: C
Whose statement is this: “…. could I say to myself that everyone make a false promise when he is in difficulty from which he otherwise cannot escape?” · Ans: B
“An act is morally right if and only if no alternative to that act has higher agent utility than it has”. This statement is indicative of which of the following ethical theories? · Ans: C
The thesis that evaluative language is used “to guide choices” is the most fundamental to which of the following theories of metaethics? · Ans: C
Match List - I with List - II. · Ans: B
The idea of clearing debts (rnas) such as deva rna, ptr rna, bhuta rna etc, which are correspondingly connected with deva yagna, ptr yagna and bhuta yagna etc., are related to which one of the following Asramas? · Ans: B
“Just as the water collected in the boat is thrown out with the hands. Similarly the soul throws out the water in the form of Karmic matter.” This statement is in consonance with the ethical views of which… · Ans: A
‘Dharma’ according to Sabara: · Ans: C
‘Khudi’ is the root of all existence, human ego is linked with the ultimate ego. By conceiving God as the Supreme ego, Iqbal means: · Ans: C
Which one of the following considers ‘Maya’ as a principle of ‘cosmic error’? · Ans: C
Match List - I with List - II. · Ans: D
Match List - I with List - II. · Ans: C
Which one among the following holds, the view, “Intellect and intuition are complementary to each other.... intuition is beyond reason not against? · Ans: B
Descartes in calling “Cogito, ergo sum” as the first principle of philosophy, claims to achieve which of the following goals? · Ans: A
Which among the following is not in accordance with Hume's conception of perception, in his work An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding? · Ans: D
How does St. Augustine present the problem of evil? · Ans: A
According to whom ‘Mumuksutva’ is an evidence in favour of the state of immortality? · Ans: B
Which of the following statements are supportive of utilitarianism as per Mill? · Ans: B
“This is good” means “I approve of this; do so as well.” This view is held by who among the following thinkers? · Ans: A
The view that “questions about ends are, in other words, questions about what things are desirable” is in consonance with: · Ans: B
Which of the following belong to the seven elements of sovereignty according to Kautilya? · Ans: B
Which among the following are correctly drawn from wittgenstein's Tractatus? · Ans: C
Frege in his paper, ‘Sense and Reference’ gives an account of meaning which implies the following: · Ans: A
Quine, in ‘Two Dogmas of Empiricism’ had two targets of his attack. Which among the following statements mark it correctly? · Ans: A
What among the following is not in accordance with Spinoza's conception of God? · Ans: B
Which among the following statements differentiates Berkeley's idealism from Leibniz's idealism? · Ans: A
Which among the following statements are incorrect of Kant's distinction between a priori/a posteriori and analytic/synthetic? · Ans: C
Locke's epistemological considerations in the Essay Concerning Human Understanding include the following: · Ans: D
The guna's of Prakrti in samkhya karika are: · Ans: C
If ‘O’ proposition is given as false; corresponding A, E and I propositions will be…. · Ans: B
“It is better to get perished while performing svadharma; since paradharma is a cause of fear” - this emphasis on performance of one's own duty is to be found in: · Ans: A
Match List - I with List - II. · Ans: A
According to pragmatic theory of truth: · Ans: C
Which one of the following anupapattis (part of sapta-vidha-anupapattis) by Acarya Ramanuja critiques Sankara's maya-vada on the question of locus of avidya? Is the locus Brahman or Jiva? It can't be Brahman, since there is no place for… · Ans: B
Which among the following are included in the ‘panca-klesas’ as described by Patanjali in his Yogasutras? · Ans: D
The verse from the Isavasyopanisad “tena-tyaktena-bhunjithah” has inspired M.K. Gandhi in the formulation of which one of the following socio-political ideals? · Ans: C
Which one of the following is not a causal condition of karma or action, according to the Gita? · Ans: D
Which among the following philosophers gives a critique of technology as a mode of enframing that reduces the world to a resource for human exploitation? · Ans: C
Which among the following will not support the distinction made between law and morality? · Ans: C
In the concept of mind, how does Gilbert Ryle illustrate the category mistake inherent in Cartesian dualism? · Ans: C
Which Ethical theory is most closely associated with the idea that humans have a moral responsibility to respect the natural world and maintain ecological balance due to an ‘inter connectedness’ with all living beings? · Ans: C
A physician is treating a terminally ill patient who expressed a desire to discontinue life-supporting system. Which ethical principle is most directly in conflict with principle of autonomy in this case? · Ans: C
What are the two characteristics of ‘Prama’ as discussed by K. C. Bhattacharya mainly based on Vedanta Paribhasa? · Ans: B
Is memory or smrti considered as part of ‘Prama’ by K. C. Bhattacharya following Vedanta Paribhasa? · Ans: B
Who is the author of the text Vedanta Paribhasa? · Ans: B
‘Dharavahika-Jnana’ or continuous knowledge is acceptable under the definition of Prama, because: · Ans: A
Vedanta Paribhasa defines Prama as: · Ans: C
Which Book/Text of Kant does this passage belong to? · Ans: B
What kind of problem has been discussed in the passage? · Ans: B
What is being clarified in the passage by the author? · Ans: A
What, according to the author, is a law of the understanding? · Ans: D
The expression - “the causality of this cause” is referred to: · Ans: B

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