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GCE A-Level 2020.
Given the proposition: 'All humans are rational' as True, what can be inferred of E, I and O respectively?
False, False, Doubtful.
False, True, False.
True, False, False.
Doubtful, True, False.
Which modes of Education are inapplicable to all categorical propositions?
Contraposition and Obversion.
Inversion and Contraposition.
Inversion and Obversion.
Contraposition and Conversion.
The Special Rules Of the First and Second Figures are respectively:
The Major premise must be universal; one of the premises must be negative.
The Major premise must be universal; the Minor premise must be affirmative.
One of the premises must be negative; the conclusion must be particular.
The Minor Premise must be affirmative; the Major premise must be negative.
Determine the Fallacy most clearly committed in an AEO-3 argument:
Exclusive Premises.
Illicit process of the Minor.
Illicit process of the Major.
The Undistributed Middle.
Using: 'If the teacher comes to school then we will have a test' as the major premise; construct a valid modus ponens argument. Identify the second prosyllogism:
The teacher did not come to school, therefore we will have a test.
The teacher did not come to school. Therefore we will have a test.
The teacher comes to school therefore we will have a test.
The teacher comes to school, therefore we will not have a test.
The part of a polysyllogism which furnishes the Conclusion for the next syllogism is called:
Prosyllogism.
Episyllogism.
Sorites.
Enthymeme.
Which of the following is an acceptable valid Modus Tollendo Ponens argument?
Either we die or we live. We will not live. Therefore, we will die.
Either we live or we die. We will live. Therefore, we will not die.
Either we live or we die. We will not live. Therefore, we will not die.
Either we die or we live. We will die. Therefore we will live.
Refuting the Dilemma by producing another Dilemma with a Conclusion which appears to contradict the original Conclusion; and rejecting the Disjunctive Minor, Premise are respectively
Escaping between the Horns and Rebuttal.
Grasping the Horns and Escaping between the Horns.
Rebuttal and Grasping the Horns.
Rebuttal and Escaping between the Horns.
The arguments: 'Although I am late, I will not hurry since our teacher is also late'; and 'Many people are rushing to the Synagogue Church of all Nations, to attend it,' respectively commit the Fallacies of:
Tu Quoque and Ad Misericordiam.
Ad Populum and Tu Quoque.
Tu Quoque and Ad Populum.
Ad Misericordiam Ad Populum.
'Places are dark in the forest because there is no light, and we are in the dark about it.' Identify the Fallacy most clearly committed above.
Amphiboly.
Accent.
Equivocation.
Composition.
Which of the following is an unacceptable definition of Informal fallacy?
Pseudo-reasoning in discourse.
Reasoning with more than one meaning.
Deceptive argument in reasoning.
Violating the rules of reasoning.
The statement (p ⊃ ~ q) · (p · q) is determined by the Truth Table as:
Contradiction.
Tautology.
Contingent.
Logical Equivalence.
The following rules of Inference, **NINO** are considered respectively as:
Conjunction and Absorption.
Addition and Simplification.
Simplification and Addition.
Absorption and Conjunction.
Identify the propositional function which best expresses the statement: 'Not all students are friendly,' (Sx: x is student; Fx: x is friendly).
(x)(Sx ⊃ Fx).
(x)(Sx ⊃ ~ Fx).
(∃x)(Sx · ~ Fx).
(∃x)(Sx · Fx).
Which of these is an adequate significance of the Paradoxes of Zeno?
Impossibility of change.
The senses are not deceptive.
Appearance produces only opinions.
Being is becoming.
Which of these statements is False about Gorgias' dictum 'Nothing exists?'
Non-being is real and being is not.
Being is incomprehensible.
The truth cannot be communicated.
The truth is unattainable.
Bringing ideas to clear consciousness; and delivering knowledge by questioning according to Socrates, are respectively:
Introspection and Maièutics.
Midwifery and Dialectics.
Maièutics and Introspection.
Irony and Dialectics.
Which of the following is False about the Platonic Forms?
The mind grasps visible things.
Forms have an independent existence.
They are the embodiment of all things.
They are the essential archetypes of things.
To Aristotle, 'that which is not asserted of a subject, but of which everything else is asserted', is known as:
Substance.
Form.
Matter.
Accident.
To Aquinas, 'words used by God and man will imply that God and man are totally alike'; and that 'God and man are neither totally alike or unlike', are respectively:
Analogical and Equivocal.
Univocal and Equivocal.
Equivocal and Analogical.
Analogical and Univocal.
What, according to Locke, are the two forms of Experience?
Sensation and Intuition.
Reflection and Intuition.
Intuition and Demonstration.
Reflection and Sensation.
To say that the Cartesian Doubt attacks all sources of knowledge which can lead to error, and that it rejects all knowledge which is not absolutely indubitable, respectively mean that it is:
Methodic and Hyperbolic.
Radical and Methodic.
Sceptical and Radical.
Radical and Hyperbolic.
Kant's theory of the possibility and limits of human knowledge is proposed in:
Transcendental Aesthetics.
Transcendental Idealism.
Transcendental Dialectic.
Transcendental Analytic.
The Marxist view of Dialectical Materialism clearly signifies that:
Nature is regarded as a coherent whole.
It is a radical rejection of religion.
It is the collapse of capitalism.
The primacy of nature on thought.
To Peirce, the method of Fixing Belief by building real assumptions independent of opinions about them is called:
Metaphysics.
Authority.
Science.
Tenacity.
According to Kierkegaard, the assertion 'Truth is Subjective' implies that Truth is:
Individual and inward.
Individual passive.
Passive and inward.
Passive and abstract.
Why does Sartre consider Existentialism as a humanism?
Existence is contingency.
Man creates himself.
Man is condemned to be free.
Existence makes human life possible.
Who asserted that 'Ethno-Philosophy is neither Philosophy nor Ethnology'?
Paulin Hountondji.
Kwasi Wiredu.
Njoh Mouelle E.
Marcien Towa.
Which of the following is clearly an explanation Of Causation in African Metaphysics?
The explanation of myths and legends.
The explanation of human predicaments.
Effects are traceable to a source.
The existence of vital forces and nature of the universe.
Identify the main characteristic of Pan- Africanism below is:
Assertion of being of the African personality.
Efforts to encourage development of the African continent.
Search for a new personality for the Africans.
Collective consciousness to attain unity.
Which of the following can be considered as a strength of Tribalism?
Can enhance cultural friction.
Gives rise to ethnic antagonism.
Affects peace and stability.
Imposes a root to the individual.
A False view of Nkrumah's Consciencism is:
An intellectual revolution of the Africans.
Aimed at the realisation of infrastructural development.
The reawakening of self-consciousness of the Africans.
The education of the masses for positive action.
Descartes' main preoccupation in the First Meditation is to demonstrate that:
The body is an extended thing.
The body and the soul are distinct.
The senses are deceptive and unreliable.
God exists and the soul is immortal.
What is the main significance of the Evil Demon Argument in Descartes' 'Meditation on First Philosophy?'
The senses are deceptive.
Certitude is the basis of Truth.
The mind is the basis of Truth.
Doubt is the basis of Truth.
What according to Descartes, is the real source of error?
The act of the human will.
The wrong choice of man.
The misuse of free will.
The human intellect.
According to Descartes, the idea of God:
Is innate.
Exists independently of experience.
Is produced by something external to the mind.
Is simply an invention of the mind.
Which of these is false about Descartes' view of the senses?
All knowledge of the senses should be discarded.
Senses are basically deceptive.
Knowledge of the senses are apriori.
Senses come from experience.
To the empiricists and rationalists, the primary and reliable source of knowledge are respectively:
Senses and Evidence.
Experience and Reason.
Reason and Experience.
Thought and Intuition.
The Scientific Method of Inquiry can be best considered credible because it is:
Rectificative in its approach.
Spatio-temporarily determined.
Limited to the efficiency of the instrument used.
Based on assumptions.
Language, artefact and music are considered as cultures which are respectively:
Material, Spiritual, Material.
Spiritual, Material, Spiritual.
Material, Material, Spiritual.
Spiritual, Spiritual, Material.
The Theory that the universe originated from the explosion of a single dense mass of matter and evolved subsequently into diverse forms is called:
Big Bang Theory.
Evolutionism.
Creationism.
Emanationism.
When an armed robber breaks into a house to steal, it is adequately considered as:
Voluntary in cause.
A human act.
An act of a man.
Voluntary in itself.
An act once made and still influences the act being done now, but not present in the person's consciousness at the moment of performing it, is one of:
Interpretative intention.
Actual intention.
Habitual intention.
Virtual intention.
A lacy with ectopic pregnancy who opts for abortion; and a student who aborts because of injuries sustained from a fatal motor accident, can best be considered respectively as:
Direct and Indirect abortion.
Therapeutic and Direct abortion.
Direct and Involuntary abortion.
Indirect and Therapeutic abortion.
Identify two philosophers below who think that the State hinders human liberty;
Hegel and Marx.
Marx and Althusser,.
Althusser and Rousseau.
Hobbes and Locke.
Which of the following is an adequate strength of Democracy as a form of government?
There is fear of the majority.
There is the dominance of the will of the majority.
There is the protection of minority rights.
The leaders execute the voted laws.
What type of Justice has to do with the fair meting out of punishment to citizens for wrong doings?
Commutative justice.
Contributive justice.
Distributive justice.
Social justice.
Which of the following can be considered as the most adequate definition of Religion?
The relationship between the human self and the Divine.
Man's worshipping the absolute Spiritual forces.
The belief in the existence of a supreme Divine entity.
Man's absolute dependence on a supernatural entity.
St. Anselm's view that 'God is a Being than which none greater can be conceived', is basically:
Moral.
Teleological.
Cosmological.
Ontological.
A child born with disabilities can partly be described as a consequence of
Physical evil.
Metaphysical evil.
Moral evil.
Natural evil.