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(1) ‘Treating equals equally and unequals unequally’ is the view of :
1 Socrates
2 Bentham
3 Aristotle
4 Mill
Answer: Aristotle
(2) Who among the following has said that ‘‘Personality and property go together’’ ?
1 Kant
2 Hegel
3 Ross
4 Rawls
Answer: Hegel

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(3) Who among the following has identified three types of Justice - Distributive, Retributive, Commutative ?
1 Plato
2 Aristotle
3 Hobbes
4 Locke
Answer: Aristotle
(4) ‘Men are not hanged for stealing horse so that horse may not be stolen by others’ can be attributed to :
1 Retributive theory of punishment
2 Reformative theory of punishment
3 Theory of capital punishment
4 Deterrent theory of punishment
Answer: Deterrent theory of punishment
(5) ‘Either freedom of will is a fact or moral judgement a delusion’ is a statement of :
1 Hobbes
2 Martinue
3 Kant
4 Hegel
Answer: Martinue
(6) Mark the incompatible of the following with reference to Kumarila’s epistemology :
1 SvataÉ prÂmÂàya vÂda
2 ViparÍtakhyÂti vÂda
3 ParataÉ prÂmÂàya vada
4 AbhihitÂnvaya vÂda

Answer: ParataÉ prÂmÂàya vada
(7) Which among the following is the distinctive feature of ethical judgements, according to Stevenson ?
1 Statement of Command
2 Approval of the Consequence of an act
3 Statement of Fact
4 Disagreement in Attitude

Answer: Disagreement in Attitude
(8) It has been pointed out that Mill’s arguments for Utilitarianism Suffer from the fallacy of :
1 Illicit major
2 Illicit Minor
3 Undistributed Middle term
4 Figure of Speech

Answer: Figure of Speech
(9) ‘The goodness of an action is determined by its consequence’ is the theory attributed to :
1 Descriptive
2 Deontological
3 Prescriptive
4 Teleological

Answer: Teleological
(10) According to Kant, Moral Laws are :
1 Apriori based on reason
2 Apriori not based on reason
3 Aposteriori not based on reason
4 Aposteriori based on reason

Answer: Apriori based on reason
(11) 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. Code :
1 Fallacy of Exclusive terms
2 Fallacy of Illicit minor
3 Existential fallacy
4 Fallacy of undistributed middle

Answer: Existential fallacy
(12) Which combination of fallacies occur if the rule ‘‘Any term distributed in the conclusion must be distributed in the premises’’ is not followed :
1 Undistributed middle and Illicit major
2 Undistributed middle and fallacy of Exclusive premises
3 Illicit major and Illicit minor
4 Fallacy of exclusive premises and Illicit major

Answer: Illicit major and Illicit minor
(13) To obvert a proposition in an immediate inference
1 Only quality of the proposition is to be changed
2 Only quantity of the proposition is to be changed.
3 Quality is to be changed and the predicate term is to be replaced with its complement.
4 Quantity is to be changed and the predicate term is to be replaced with its complement.

Answer: Quality is to be changed and the predicate term is to be replaced with its complement.
(14) In the traditional square of opposition, if ‘O’ is true, then :
1 ‘A’ is true; ‘E’ is false; ‘I’ is undetermined
2 ‘A’ is true; ‘E’ and ‘I’ are undetermined
3 ‘A’ is false; ‘E’ and ‘I’ are undetermined.
4 ‘A’ is false; ‘E’ and ‘I’ are true.

Answer: ‘A’ is false; ‘E’ and ‘I’ are undetermined.
(15) What type of kÂraàa the colour of the threads is in respect of the colour of the cloth according to the vaiïeîikas ?
1 SamavÂyi
2 AsamavÂyÍ
3 Nimitta
4 UpÂdÂna

Answer: AsamavÂyÍ

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