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GCE A-Level 2022
What is the converse of 'All beautiful housewives are university lecturers'?
All university lecturers are beautiful housewives.
Some housewives are university lecturers.
Some university lecturers are beautiful. Housewives.
No university lecturers are beautiful housewives.
The 'Opposition' in which the propositions differ in quantity and quality is:
Contrariety.
Subalternation.
Sub-Contrariety.
Contradiction.
Which Fallacy is most clearly committed in this Syllogism? All musicians are dancers. No drummers are musicians. Therefore No drummers are dancers.
Illicit Major.
An Illicit process.
Undistributed Middle.
Illicit Minor.
What precisely determines the First Order Enthymeme of a valid syllogism?
When the major premise is omitted.
When the minor premise is omitted.
When the conclusion is omitted.
When one premise is omitted.
A form of the Dilemma with a negative categorical conclusion is known as:
A Complex Destructive Dilemma.
A Simple Destructive Dilemma.
A Complex Constructive Dilemma.
A Simple Constructive Dilemma.
Given the following as a major premise: 'Either the rain falls or the sun shines', construct a suitable minor premise for a valid Modus Ponendo Tollens,
The rain falls.
Neither did the rain fall nor did the sun shine.
The sun did not shine.
The rain did not fall.
The Fallacy of 'affirming the consequence' in a Modus Ponens argument is committed when:
The minor premise denies the antecedent and conclusion the consequent.
The minor premise affirms the antecedent and conclusion the consequent.
The minor premise affirms the consequent and conclusion the antecedent.
The minor premise denies the consequent and conclusion of the antecedent.
When a term in an argument is liable to more than one interpretation, it commits the Fallacy of:
Amphiboly.
Ambiguity.
Equivocation.
Accent.
A student who justifies his late coming on the basis that the teacher is always late also commits the Fallacy of:
Tu Quoque.
Ignoratio Elenchi.
Ad Populum.
Non Sequitur.
The statement: 'If Paul returns then Agnes will travel' can best be symbolised.
p ∨ q.
P · q.
p ⊃ q.
!p · q.
Identify the form of the following argument; p ⊃ q ¬p ∴ !q
Valid Modus Ponens.
Valid Modus Tollens.
Invalid Modus Ponens.
Invalid Modus Tollens.
Using quantification symbols of propositional functions the statement « none but thieves tell lies » can best be translated as:
(x) (Tx ⊃ Lx).
(x) (Lx ⊃ Tx).
(x) (Lx ⊃ ¬Tx).
(x) (Tx ⊃ ¬Lx).
The quest for reasoned explanation for natural phenomena ushered the beginning of:
Religion.
Mythology.
Philosophy.
Science.
What is the distinct role that myths play for a people?
A Provides answers to fundamental questions about their existence.
Source of common entertainment.
Gives guidance on how to live.
Help bind cultures together.
The major concern of the early Greek thinkers was on:
The origin of the universe.
The basic nature of things.
The immutable root from which comes.
The basic substance out of which the universe is made up of.
The first philosopher to explicitly formulate the question of being is:
Aristotle.
Heraclitus.
Parmenides.
Anaxagoras.
Pythagoras' assertion that: knowledge is neither universal nor objective', can best be qualified as:
Subjectivism.
Scepticism.
Relativism.
Agnosticism.
Socratic Ethics is considered eudemonistic because:
It is aimed at fulfilling its function of attaining one's virtue.
It is aimed at attaining happiness.
It is aimed at realising one's functions.
It is aimed at making the soul perfect and good.
The main characteristics of Plato's Forms are:
Material, Mutable, Eternal.
Material, Immutable, Eternal.
Immaterial, Immutable, Eternal.
Immaterial, Mutable, Eternal.
According to Aristotle, primary substances a made up of two elements, namely:
Form and Accident.
Matter and Form.
Essence and Existence.
Substance and Accident.
St. Thomas Aquinas considers the relationship between Faith and Reason as being:
Distinct from one another.
Opposed to each other.
Synonymous to each other.
Complementing each other.
The major objective ofDescartes in methodic doubt was:
Helping man to understand God.
To arrive at true and certain knowledge.
Faith Supplements reason.
To doubt all his previous knowledge.
The two forms of experience according to John Locke are:
Sensation and reflection.
Matter and Form.
Reason and revelation.
Intuition and deduction.
The Empiricists claim that knowledge is only attainable through:
Faith.
DogmA.
Reason.
Experience.
By describing the African mind as being 'pre- logical' Levy Bruhl meant:
Africans are not thinking beings.
The African mind does not respect the Laws of thought.
Africans cannot philosophise.
The Africans are attached to their cultures.
Which of the following justifies Hegel's thesis on History and the Africans?
The Africans are ahistorical.
The Africans are not free people.
Africans are irrational.
Africans cannot philosophise.
An outstanding Cameroonian proponent of Ethnophilosophy is :
Njoh Mouelle.
Eboussi BoulagA.
Basile Fouda.
Marcien Towa.
An outstanding Cameroonian proponent of Professional Philosophy is:
Marcien Towa.
Meinrad HebgA.
Basile FoudA.
Njoh Mouelle.
The book 'Bantu Philosophy' was written by:
Kwasi Wiredu.
Odera Oruka.
Paulin Hountondji.
Placide Tempels.
Who among these are the major p Ethnophilosophy? proponents of:
Hountondji and HebgA.
Placid Tempels and Basile Tempels.
Nkrumah and Odera Oruka.
Towa and Boussi Boulega.
Which amongst these is the most suitable objective of the nationalistic ideological school of African Philosophy?
Seek solutions for the development of the African.
Promote African unity.
Militate for the liberation of the Africans.
Enhance African personality.
The concept 'Sage Philosophy' was coined by:
Paulin Hountondji.
Kwame Gyekye.
Placide Tempels.
Odera Oruka.
The study of reality existing in everything and in every Being in the African universe best describes:
African Religion.
African Epistemology.
African Metaphysics.
African Ethics.
Which among the following is the most appropriate 'Order of Being' in the African universe in the ascending order?
Metaphysical, Religious, Moral and Laws of nature.
Metaphysical, Laws of nature, Moral and Religious.
Laws of nature, Moral, Religious and Metaphysical.
Religious, Metaphysical, Moral and Laws of nature.
The supernatural forces which defy any scientific explanation which can be, manipulated by man for both good and evil purposes can be qualified as:
Mysticism.
Epistemology.
Witchcraft.
Rationality.
The main distinction between African indigenous democracy and Western Liberal democracy is:
Hereditary rule and elitist rule.
Monopartism and multipartism.
Communitarian and representational.
Rule by consensus and majority rule.
The view that people are always motivated by self-interest and cannot be expected to act otherwise is known as ?
Ethical egoism.
Accidental egoism.
Freudian egoism.
Psychological egoism.
According to the pro-life argument, the moral permissibility of an act is based on:
Societal Laws.
Human freedom.
Individual freedom.
Sanctity of Life.
Which of the following pairs are both acts for which man can be held fully responsible on the one hand and not fully responsible on the other hand?
Abortion and Homicide, Miscarriage and Drowning.
Miscarriage and drowning, Abortion and Homicide.
Abortion and Miscarriage, Homicide and Drowning.
Homicide and Miscarriage, Abortion and Drowning.
Which moral principle adequately describes a lady who indulges herself into prostitution in order to alleviate poverty in her family?
Utilitarianism.
Personalism.
Double effect.
Higher good.
When J.J. Rousseau declares that << Man is born free, but everywhere is in chains » he means that:
Society is a hindrance to man's growth.
The inalienable rights are limited.
The alienable rights are limited.
The other is a limitation to man's freedom.
In 'The Republic', Plato posits that the culminating virtue found in the state is:
Courage.
Temperance.
Wisdom.
Justice.
Which amongst the system of government is ruled by a select few?
Aristocracy.
Plutocracy.
Timocracy.
Tyranny.
Nietzsche's description of the state as monsters' best validates:
The use of power by the state.
The use of violence by the state.
The use of war by the state.
The misuse of power by the state:
The conception of God as the creator of the universe but who is far removed from it is best described as:
Deism.
Agnosticism.
Atheism.
Theism.
Aquinas' knowledge of God by Analogy is represented aptly in the following sequence:
Univocal, Analogical and Equivocal.
Equivocal, Univocal and Analogical.
Univocal, Equivocal and Analogical.
Analogical, Univocal and Equivocal.
A situation in which innocent children are killed by unidentified men can best be described as:
Natural Evil.
Metaphysical Evil.
Physical Evil.
Moral Evil.
The Sartrean assertion that « Existence precedes essence» can best be interpreted as:
Human destiny is determined.
There is a defined human nature.
There is no defined human nature.
Human destiny is predetermined.
Philosophy and Religion both seek the truth but from different angles precisely in that:
Philosophy is sometimes dogmatic while Religion is never dogmatic.
Philosophy is reason bound while Religion is faith bound.
Philosophy is objective while Religion is subjective.
Philosophy deliberates on reason while Religion harps on revelation.
One of the outstanding usefulness of Philosophy to humanity at large is that:
It sharpens the human thinking capacity.
It liberates the human mind from cultural precepts.
It distorts the spirit of creativity.
It enhances the human world view.
