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Classical Western Epistemology and Metaphysics
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Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R). Considering (A) and (R), select the correct option.
Assertion (A) Kant's ethics of categorical imperative is formal and regoristic.
Reason (R) It disparages the role of sensibility.

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Who accepts that the existence of an object depends upon its experience?

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Which among the following refers as 'aprior'?

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"Empiricists are like ants; they collect and put to use; but rationalists like spiders, spin threads out of themselves." was said by

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All the following propositions except one are compatible with Leibniz's Philosophy

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What Descartes tried to define with respect to this definition?
"An existent thing which requires nothing but itself in order to exist".

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Match the following:
List-I List-II
a. Identity of indiscernibles 1. Descartes
b. Interactionism 2. Spinoza
c. Parallelism 3. Berkley
d. Esse est percipi 4. Leibniz

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Does the knowledge acquired through sensitive knowledge experience is certain?

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Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer:
List-I List-II
a. Leibnitz 1. World is bundle of monads
b. Wittgenstein 2. World is bundle of atoms
c. Hume 3. World is bundle of impressions
d. Berkeley 4. World is bundle of perceptions

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Given below are an Assertion (A) and a Reason (R). Consider them and select the correct option:
Assertion (A) According to Locke knowledge depends on the mental power to perceive or apprehend ideas and not in the more receptivity of ideas.
Reason (R) Knowledge is rational for it consists in seeing the agreement or disagreement between ideas:

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Locke says intuitive knowledge is that which

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Who among the following has said that "Personality and property go together"?

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According to Leibniz, . . . . . . . . is performed by God.

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God is regarded as . . . . . . . . and efficient causes, according to Leibniz.

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In Hegel, the anti-thesis of being and non-being is overcome by

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Causality', according to Kant, is

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A category is regarded as

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Match the following:
List-I List-II
a. Spinoza 1. Representationalism
b. Descartes 2. Parallelism
c. Locke 3. Scepticism
d. Hume 4. Interactionism

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According to Locke, in the what is mind of human being in the beginning?

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Hume ethical concept are based on what?

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