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