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GCE A-Level 2022
What is the converse of 'All beautiful housewives are university lecturers'?
Some housewives are university lecturers.
No university lecturers are beautiful housewives.
All university lecturers are beautiful housewives.
Some university lecturers are beautiful. Housewives.
The 'Opposition' in which the propositions differ in quantity and quality is:
Contrariety.
Sub-Contrariety.
Contradiction.
Subalternation.
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 Simple Constructive Dilemma.
A Complex Destructive Dilemma.
A Simple Destructive Dilemma.
A Complex 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.
The sun did not shine.
Neither did the rain fall nor did the sun 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 denies the consequent and conclusion of the antecedent.
The minor premise affirms the consequent and conclusion the antecedent.
When a term in an argument is liable to more than one interpretation, it commits the Fallacy of:
Equivocation.
Amphiboly.
Ambiguity.
Accent.
A student who justifies his late coming on the basis that the teacher is always late also commits the Fallacy of:
Ad Populum.
Tu Quoque.
Ignoratio Elenchi.
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 Tollens.
Invalid Modus Tollens.
Invalid Modus Ponens.
Valid Modus Ponens.
Using quantification symbols of propositional functions the statement « none but thieves tell lies » can best be translated as:
(x) (Lx ⊃ ¬Tx).
(x) (Lx ⊃ Tx).
(x) (Tx ⊃ Lx).
(x) (Tx ⊃ ¬Lx).
The quest for reasoned explanation for natural phenomena ushered the beginning of:
Mythology.
Religion.
Science.
Philosophy.
What is the distinct role that myths play for a people?
Source of common entertainment.
Help bind cultures together.
A Provides answers to fundamental questions about their existence.
Gives guidance on how to live.
The major concern of the early Greek thinkers was on:
The basic nature of things.
The immutable root from which comes.
The basic substance out of which the universe is made up of.
The origin of the universe.
The first philosopher to explicitly formulate the question of being is:
Parmenides.
Anaxagoras.
Aristotle.
Heraclitus.
Pythagoras' assertion that: knowledge is neither universal nor objective', can best be qualified as:
Subjectivism.
Relativism.
Scepticism.
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 making the soul perfect and good.
It is aimed at realising one's functions.
The main characteristics of Plato's Forms are:
Material, Mutable, Eternal.
Material, Immutable, Eternal.
Immaterial, Mutable, Eternal.
Immaterial, Immutable, 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:
Opposed to each other.
Complementing each other.
Synonymous to each other.
Distinct from one another.
The major objective ofDescartes in methodic doubt was:
To doubt all his previous knowledge.
Faith Supplements reason.
To arrive at true and certain knowledge.
Helping man to understand God.
The two forms of experience according to John Locke are:
Reason and revelation.
Intuition and deduction.
Sensation and reflection.
Matter and Form.
The Empiricists claim that knowledge is only attainable through:
DogmA.
Reason.
Experience.
Faith.
By describing the African mind as being 'pre- logical' Levy Bruhl meant:
Africans are not thinking beings.
The Africans are attached to their cultures.
The African mind does not respect the Laws of thought.
Africans cannot philosophise.
Which of the following justifies Hegel's thesis on History and the Africans?
Africans cannot philosophise.
Africans are irrational.
The Africans are ahistorical.
The Africans are not free people.
An outstanding Cameroonian proponent of Ethnophilosophy is :
Basile Fouda.
Marcien Towa.
Njoh Mouelle.
Eboussi BoulagA.
An outstanding Cameroonian proponent of Professional Philosophy is:
Basile FoudA.
Njoh Mouelle.
Marcien Towa.
Meinrad HebgA.
The book 'Bantu Philosophy' was written by:
Paulin Hountondji.
Odera Oruka.
Kwasi Wiredu.
Placide Tempels.
Who among these are the major p Ethnophilosophy? proponents of:
Placid Tempels and Basile Tempels.
Towa and Boussi Boulega.
Nkrumah and Odera Oruka.
Hountondji and HebgA.
Which amongst these is the most suitable objective of the nationalistic ideological school of African Philosophy?
Militate for the liberation of the Africans.
Promote African unity.
Enhance African personality.
Seek solutions for the development of the African.
The concept 'Sage Philosophy' was coined by:
Kwame Gyekye.
Odera Oruka.
Placide Tempels.
Paulin Hountondji.
The study of reality existing in everything and in every Being in the African universe best describes:
African Ethics.
African Epistemology.
African Metaphysics.
African Religion.
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.
Religious, Metaphysical, Moral and Laws of nature.
Metaphysical, Laws of nature, Moral and Religious.
Laws of nature, Moral, Religious and Metaphysical.
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.
Rationality.
Witchcraft.
The main distinction between African indigenous democracy and Western Liberal democracy is:
Monopartism and multipartism.
Rule by consensus and majority rule.
Communitarian and representational.
Hereditary rule and elitist rule.
The view that people are always motivated by self-interest and cannot be expected to act otherwise is known as ?
Accidental egoism.
Psychological egoism.
Freudian egoism.
Ethical egoism.
According to the pro-life argument, the moral permissibility of an act is based on:
Individual freedom.
Sanctity of Life.
Human freedom.
Societal Laws.
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 Miscarriage, Homicide and Drowning.
Abortion and Homicide, Miscarriage and Drowning.
Miscarriage and drowning, Abortion and Homicide.
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?
Higher good.
Double effect.
Personalism.
Utilitarianism.
When J.J. Rousseau declares that << Man is born free, but everywhere is in chains » he means that:
The other is a limitation to man's freedom.
Society is a hindrance to man's growth.
The inalienable rights are limited.
The alienable rights are limited.
In 'The Republic', Plato posits that the culminating virtue found in the state is:
Temperance.
Wisdom.
Justice.
Courage.
Which amongst the system of government is ruled by a select few?
Aristocracy.
Timocracy.
Plutocracy.
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.
Atheism.
Agnosticism.
Theism.
Aquinas' knowledge of God by Analogy is represented aptly in the following sequence:
Univocal, Equivocal and Analogical.
Equivocal, Univocal and Analogical.
Analogical, Univocal and Equivocal.
Univocal, Analogical and Equivocal.
A situation in which innocent children are killed by unidentified men can best be described as:
Moral Evil.
Physical Evil.
Natural Evil.
Metaphysical Evil.
The Sartrean assertion that « Existence precedes essence» can best be interpreted as:
Human destiny is predetermined.
There is no defined human nature.
Human destiny is determined.
There is a defined human nature.
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 objective while Religion is subjective.
Philosophy deliberates on reason while Religion harps on revelation.
Philosophy is reason bound while Religion is faith bound.
One of the outstanding usefulness of Philosophy to humanity at large is that:
It sharpens the human thinking capacity.
It enhances the human world view.
It distorts the spirit of creativity.
It liberates the human mind from cultural precepts.
