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It' i's revision time, take Philosophy - GCE A-Level 2024

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GCE A-Level 2024

Given: 'Some students are cheats' as True, Determine the truth values of 'E' and 'O' propositions using the traditional square of opposition.

False and True.

Douthful and Doubtful.

False and Douthful.

True and False.

The mood of a syllogism is determined by:

The matter of propositions.

The structure of a syllogism.

The quality of propositions.

The Form of Propositions.

Identify the fallacy committed: All prophets are seers. No preachers are prophets. Therefore no preachers are seers

Fallacy of undistributed middle term.

Fallacy of illicit major.

Fallacy of illicit minor.

Fallacy of Exclusive premises.

If Kinyuy succeeds in the G.C.E Examinations, then she worked hard. Kinyuy worked hard. Therefore, she was successful in the G.C.E Examination, commits the fallacy of:

Denying the consequent.

Denying the antecedent.

Affirming the antecedent.

Affirming the consequent.

Which fallacy is committed in the argument: The teacher pleaded that since the student just lost his father he should not be dismissed for his crime.

Appeal to force.

Appeal to pity.

Abusive personal attack.

Appeal to the populace.

A mixed hypothetical syllogism's constituent propositions are:

All disjunctive.

All hypothetical.

Mixture of hypothetical and categoric.

All categorical.

Identify the order of enthymeme: Socrates is mortal given that he is a man.

First order enthymeme.

Immediate inference.

Second order enthymeme.

Third order enthymeme.

A Sorites is considered Gocleanian because it is:

Figure 3.

Figure 4.

Figure 1.

Figure 2.

The complex dilemma of the affirming mode is:

A complex Dilemma.

A Destructive Dilemma.

A complex constructive dilemma.

A complex Destructive.

Symbolize the statement: it will be wet (w) only if it rains ®, using the variables in parenthesis:

w ≡ r.

r ≡ w.

w ⊃ r.

r ⊃ w.

Compound propositions are made up of:

Molecular propositions linked by connectives.

Atomic and molecular propositions.

Truth-functional connectives.

Atomic propositions linked by truth functions.

The statement: 'If Matupe is a politician and a lawyer then he is a worker' can be best symbolized as:

(p ∨ q) ⊃ r.

(p ⊃ q) · r.

(p · q) ⊃ r.

p · (q ⊃ r).

In forming WFEs the smallest compounds are:

Grouped with parentheses.

Grouped with braces.

Grouped with connectives.

Grouped with brackets.

The proposition 'Only women are traders'. given (Wx: x is woman); (Tx: x is a trader) is symbolised in predicate logic as:

(∃x) (Wx · Tx).

(∃x) (Tx · Wx).

(x) (Tx ⊃ Wx).

(x) (Wx ⊃ Tx).

In predicate logic symbolisations, parentheses around propositional functions indicate:

Free variables.

Bound variables.

Bound quantifiers.

Bound constants.

Which of these can we consider as a social function of myth?

Myths prescribe social hierarchy.

Provides norms of religious worship.

Myths teaches immortality.

Myths elevates man intellectually.

Moist; the Unbounded and Air respectively represents the 'basic substance' according to:

Anaximenes, Anaximander, Thales.

Anaximander, Anaximenes, Thales.

Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes.

Thales. Anaximenes, Anaximander.

Which philosophical concept does Gorgias' Dictum 'Nothing Exists…' clearly illustrate?

Agnosticism.

Skepticism.

Nihilism.

Relativism.

Which of the following describes the Socratic Method?

The Maieutics.

Irony.

Elenchus.

The Dialectics.

What is the metaphysical teaching in Plato's Cave analogy?

That being is material.

That material entities have full existence.

That only forms have full existence.

That material entities have not existence.

To Aristotle, the Entelechy signifies:

. The self-contained act of a thing.com.

Distinctive end to achieve a function.

The midway between potency and actuality.

The ultimate cause of all changes in universe.

By affirming that 'Reason can only discover. Truth when Philosophy is illuminated by Religious faith'. Aquinas meant that:

The truth is in Religion rather than philosophy.

Faith is superior to reason.

Reason is superior to faith.

Faith and reason are complementary.

To Locke, the mode of perception that does not give certainty but only some degree of knowledge is:

Demonstrative perception.

Sensitive knowledge.

Intuitive perception.

Demonstrative knowledge.

Descartes's first rule of method is:

Synthesis.

Evidence.

Enumeration.

Analysis.

In Aristotle, the intrinsic causes of being and becoming are:

Potentiality and Actuality.

Matter-Form.

Efficient cause-Final cause.

Substance-Accident.

The basic principles of Scholastic thought are:

Reasoned discourse, Harmony, Faith.

Argument, Faith, Sacred Scriptures.

Faith, Reason, God's existence.

Reasoned argument, Authority, Harmony of Faith and Reason.

The Cartesian rules of method are based on:

Intuition and Deduction.

Deduction and enumeration.

Analysis and synthesis.

Evidence and Intuition.

The description of primitive mental logic was made by:

Levy- Bruhl.

Kant.

Hegel.

Heidegger.

Who amongst the following is considered the most ardent defender of Ethno-philosophy?

Odera Oruka.

Kwame Nkrumah.

Placid Tempels.

Paulin Hountondji.

Which of Oruka's sages represents his notion of African wisdom?

The Ethnic sage.

The folk sage.

The cultural sage.

The philosophy sage.

The phrase 'A person is a person through other persons' best describes:

'Negritude'.

'Tribalism'.

'Ubuntu'.

'Ujama'a.

Which of the following pairs were proponents of PanAfricanism?

Hountondji and Marcus Garvey.

Marcus Garvey and Marcien Town.

Wiredu and Du Bois.

William Du Bois and Nkrumah.

Which Cameroonian philosopher was an ardent critique of ethno philosophy?

Juléat Basil Fouda.

Njoh Mouelle.

Marcien Towa.

Eboussi Boulaga.

'The African way of perceiving and interpreting and making meaning out of interactions among being in general' is known as:

African Metaphysics.

African Cosmology:

African Cosmogony.

African Ontology.

The critiques of witchcraft in Africa generally focus their argument on the fact that it is:

Unscientific.

Not Based on universal principles.

Un Reasonable.

More psychological than real.

Which of the following is FALSE of African epistemology?

Indigenous epistemology.

Specific Epistemology.

Social epistemology.

Normative epistemology.

One of the major distinguishing elements of African indigenous democracy is:

Absence of political parties.

The existence of checks and balances.

Consensus.

Charisma.

One of the main distinctions between African and Western conceptions of personhood is:

Communitarian vs authoritarian.

Relational vs. Individualistic.

Dualistic vs. Pluralist.

Hierarchical vs. relational.

Which of the following below best describes the relevance of African Philosophy.

It has rejected Eurocentrism.

It has led to conceptual decolonization.

It has promoted African indigenous thought.

It has led to nationalist ideological thinking.

Which Principle is illustrated by the dictum: 'Do unto others what you would have them do unto you' ?

The principle of Direct and Indirect voluntariness.

The Principle of double effect.

The Divine Right Principle.

The Golden Rule.

At gun point one readily surrenders his car keys to bandits, one's responsibility is lessened because one acts:

With fear and under force.

Under force and from fear.

Under force and with fear.

From fear and under force.

Which of these is weak as an argument against violence?

The slippery.

Violence safeguards the sanctity of life principle.

Violence checks off tyrannical systems.

Violence leads to the destruction of the fabric of society.

'Man is born free but everywhere he is in chains' was uttered by:

Locke.

Rousseau.

Hobbes.

Plato.

The characteristics of Democracy and Oligarchy respectively are:

Wealthy few and private interests.

Private interest and excellence.

Freedom for all and the wealthy few.

Excellence and wealthy few.

That moral laws are based on human nature adequately refers to:

Human law in inert entities.

External law in natural entities.

Positive law.

Natural law in rational beings.

'God, if he exists, cares less about humanity' and 'Should God exist, one has not the proper power to know' respectively, which expresses which attitudes?

Theism and Agnosticism.

Deism and Theism.

Theism and Atheism.

Deism and Agnosticism.

The innate ideas argument and the finality arguments for the existence of God are respectively described as:

Teleological and Ontological arguments.

Ontological and Teleological arguments.

Cosmological and Teleological arguments.

Cosmological and Ontological arguments.

The cause of physical evil can best be attributed to:

Natural disasters.

God's goodness.

God's abandonment of the Universe.

Man's misuse of his freewill.

Which doctrine holds that after the body dies, the soul separates from the body and enters into a new one?

Metempsychosis.

Transfiration.

Immortality.

Karma.

The view by Spinoza that 'God is nature and nature is God' can best be decribed as:

Traditionation.

Pantheism.

Agnosticism.

Animism.

The view that the law is a hindrance to human freedom means:

Man is free in the presence of the law.

The law enhances human freedom.

The law promulgates human freedom.

The law is an obstacle to human freedom.

To say that 'philosophy makes an inquiry into ALL fundamental issues and questions' will most correctly mean philosophy is?

Rational.

Sceptical.

Critical.

Analytical.

One of the fundamental values of philosophy is that:

It liberates the mind from prejudices.

It permits us to have informed religious beliefs.

It creates the spirit of subversion in the individual.

It liberates the body from pains.