Empedocles maintained that all things are made up of some elements, these are
1. Air
2. Water
3. Earth
4. Fire
A. 1 and 4
B. Only 1
C. Only 4
D. All of these
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What kind of process is where air is changed into water and water into Earth?
A. Straight
B. Downward
C. Upward
D. Linear
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Which of the following statements expresses Anaximens's view?
A. Quality can explain the quantity
B. Quantity can explain the quality
C. Quantities and qualities are unknown
D. Quantity counts, quality controls
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The purpose of Socratic Method is to
A. Establish his mastery over the situation
B. Evolve such universal judgements that work as common ground beneath the clash of opinions
C. Evolve such universal judgements that rejects all clash of opinions
D. Reject the importance of all particular judgements
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What is for Anaximander, the features of matter?
1. Formless
2. Indefinite
3. Absolute
4. Non-perishable
A. 1 and 4
B. All 1, 2, 3 and 4
C. 2 and 3
D. 1, 2 and 3
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Consider the following in the light of Pythagoras
1. Pythagoras believed in the idea of eternal recurrence.
2. Pythagoras hold that soul is immortal.
3. Pythagoras believes in re-birth.
A. 1 is true
B. 2 is true
C. 1 and 2 are true
D. 1 and 3 are true
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Who says that "Knowledge is perception"?
A. Protagoras
B. Democritus
C. Plato
D. Parmenides
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According to Anaximenes the world is
A. Vapours, liquid and solid
B. Sound and colour
C. Rough and smooth
D. All of the above
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For Pluralist school
A. there are one substance
B. there is no substance
C. there is more than one subtance
D. the matter as unconscious substance
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What are the opposite processes in Anaximene's philosophy?
1. Rarefaction
2. Condensation
3. Growing hot
4. Growing cold
A. 1 and 3
B. 2 and 4
C. 1, 2 and 4
D. 1, 2, 3 and 4
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Distinction between the appearance and reality, sense and thought is given by
A. Thales
B. Pythagoras
C. Parmenides
D. Anaximenes
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What is the term used by Anaxagoras for the intelligent thing that holds maximum power?
A. Arche
B. Nous
C. Apeiron
D. Eidos
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What is that Matter for Heraclitus on which rest of things depend?
A. Fire
B. Water
C. Air
D. Earth
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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) in the light of Thales. Select the correct answer:
Assertion (A) Magnet has a soul.
Reason (R) Magnet possesses a power to move other things.
A. Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A
B. Both A and R are true, but R is not the correct explanation of A
C. A is true, but R is false
D. A is false, but R is true
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Does for Democritus, atoms are divisible?
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By which procedure, air first becomes clouds?
A. Condensation
B. Rarefaction
C. Examination
D. Conflict
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Who among the following believed that the ultimate principle of universe is matter, along with Thales?
A. Anaximenes
B. Democritus
C. Anaximander
D. Pythagoras
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Socrates says that
1. virtue is knowledge through concepts.
2. vice is ignorance.
3. virtue can be taught.
4. virtue is one.
Select the correct answer:
A. 1, 2 and 3
B. 2, 3 and 4
C. 1, 3 and 4
D. All of these
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"You can hot known what is not, nor can you express it. What can be thought of and what can be - they are the same".
A. Parmenides
B. Anaxagoras
C. Pythagoras
D. Sophists
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The philosophy where their are many things that exist but the claim is on single eternal reality only. This theory is called as
A. Idealsim
B. Patheism
C. Nominalism
D. Monism
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