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Classical Western Epistemology and Metaphysics
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Which one of the following is true with reference to Leibniz's doctrine of pre-established harmony?

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Match List I and List II and choose the correct answer:
List-I List-II
a. Berkeley 1. lnteractionism
b. Spinoza 2. Constant conjunction
c. Descartes 3, Parallelism
d. Hume 4. Subjective idealism

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Consider the correct option, with reference to Descartes.
1. All Metal States are reducible to Physical state.
2. All physical states are reducible to Metal states.
3. Mind-Body relation is not similar to that of car and driver.
4. There is no corporeal and non-corporeal distinction with respect to human beings.

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How can empiricist philosophers attain knowledge?

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Locke derives . . . . . . . . of knowledge from experience.

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Berkeley says that
1. matter is not perceived.
2. abstract ideas are rejected.
3. external objects are real.
4. distinction between primary and secondary qualities exist.
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Is it correct to say that; Spinoza accepted mind and body as an attribute for a single substance?

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Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer:
List-I List-II
a. Matter is someting I know not what 1. Berkeley
b. Matter as such does not exist 2. Locke
c. What we can know is only the phenomenon 3. Hegel
d. The real is the rational 4. Kant

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Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer:
List-I List-II
a. Locke 1. Synthetic apriori judgement
b. Berkeley 2. Synthetic a posteriori judgement
c. Hume 3. Knowledge of ideas
d. Kant 4. Knowledge of sensations

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Do Leibniz believe in the freedom of an individual?

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Is it true with respect to Descartes doubting that 'Psychological doubt is regarded as independent of our will'.

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Which among the following are necessary presuppositions of the possibility of objective knowledge according to Kant?
1. Synthetic apriori judgement
2. Space and time
3. Categories of understanding
4. Transcendental unity of apperception
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'Your mind is the unit of substance conceived as thought and your body is a unit of substance conceived as extension." is the standpoint of

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Who among the following has said "Nothing is unconditionally good, save the goodwill".

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Copernicus has effected

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Match the following:
List-I List-II
a. Kant 1. Golden means
b. Hegel 2. Cardinal virtue
c. Plato 3. Categorical imperative
d. Aristole 4. Die to live

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My station and its duties' is stated by

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To be is to be perceived' is the view held by
1. Locke
2. Berkeley
3. Locke and Berkeley
4. Locke, Berkeley and Hume

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Whatever was sensation in Locke's philosophy is impression in whose philosophy?

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Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer:
List-I List-II
a. Hume 1. The idea of causality is not necessarily connected with uniformity
b. Locke 2. God is the real cause of spirits and things
c. Berkeley 3. The relation of the soul to the body is of the nature of the pilot and his machine
d. Descartes 4. Past experience of constant conjunction

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