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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.
True, False, False.
Doubtful, True, False.
False, True, False.
Which modes of Education are inapplicable to all categorical propositions?
Inversion and Obversion.
Inversion and Contraposition.
Contraposition and Conversion.
Contraposition and Obversion.
The Special Rules Of the First and Second Figures are respectively:
The Minor Premise must be affirmative; the Major premise must be negative.
One of the premises must be negative; the conclusion must be particular.
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.
Determine the Fallacy most clearly committed in an AEO-3 argument:
Illicit process of the Major.
Exclusive Premises.
Illicit process of the Minor.
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 not have a test.
The teacher comes to school therefore we will have a test.
The part of a polysyllogism which furnishes the Conclusion for the next syllogism is called:
Sorites.
Episyllogism.
Enthymeme.
Prosyllogism.
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 not live. Therefore, we will not die.
Either we live or we die. We will 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
Rebuttal and Escaping between the Horns.
Escaping between the Horns and Rebuttal.
Rebuttal and Grasping the Horns.
Grasping the Horns 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 Populum.
Ad Populum and Tu Quoque.
Tu Quoque and Ad Misericordiam.
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.
Equivocation.
Composition.
Amphiboly.
Accent.
Which of the following is an unacceptable definition of Informal fallacy?
Deceptive argument in reasoning.
Reasoning with more than one meaning.
Pseudo-reasoning in discourse.
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:
Simplification and Addition.
Absorption and Conjunction.
Conjunction and Absorption.
Addition and Simplification.
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.
Being is becoming.
The senses are not deceptive.
Appearance produces only opinions.
Which of these statements is False about Gorgias' dictum 'Nothing exists?'
Being is incomprehensible.
The truth is unattainable.
Non-being is real and being is not.
The truth cannot be communicated.
Bringing ideas to clear consciousness; and delivering knowledge by questioning according to Socrates, are respectively:
Irony and Dialectics.
Midwifery and Dialectics.
Introspection and Maièutics.
Maièutics and Introspection.
Which of the following is False about the Platonic Forms?
The mind grasps visible things.
They are the embodiment of all things.
They are the essential archetypes of things.
Forms have an independent existence.
To Aristotle, 'that which is not asserted of a subject, but of which everything else is asserted', is known as:
Matter.
Accident.
Form.
Substance.
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:
Univocal and Equivocal.
Equivocal and Analogical.
Analogical and Univocal.
Analogical and Equivocal.
What, according to Locke, are the two forms of Experience?
Sensation and Intuition.
Reflection and Intuition.
Reflection and Sensation.
Intuition and Demonstration.
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.
Radical and Hyperbolic.
Sceptical and Radical.
Kant's theory of the possibility and limits of human knowledge is proposed in:
Transcendental Dialectic.
Transcendental Idealism.
Transcendental Analytic.
Transcendental Aesthetics.
The Marxist view of Dialectical Materialism clearly signifies that:
The primacy of nature on thought.
Nature is regarded as a coherent whole.
It is the collapse of capitalism.
It is a radical rejection of religion.
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:
Passive and inward.
Passive and abstract.
Individual and inward.
Individual passive.
Why does Sartre consider Existentialism as a humanism?
Existence makes human life possible.
Man is condemned to be free.
Man creates himself.
Existence is contingency.
Who asserted that 'Ethno-Philosophy is neither Philosophy nor Ethnology'?
Kwasi Wiredu.
Paulin Hountondji.
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.
The existence of vital forces and nature of the universe.
Effects are traceable to a source.
Identify the main characteristic of Pan- Africanism below is:
Assertion of being of the African personality.
Search for a new personality for the Africans.
Collective consciousness to attain unity.
Efforts to encourage development of the African continent.
Which of the following can be considered as a strength of Tribalism?
Imposes a root to the individual.
Affects peace and stability.
Can enhance cultural friction.
Gives rise to ethnic antagonism.
A False view of Nkrumah's Consciencism is:
The reawakening of self-consciousness of the Africans.
The education of the masses for positive action.
Aimed at the realisation of infrastructural development.
An intellectual revolution of the Africans.
Descartes' main preoccupation in the First Meditation is to demonstrate that:
The body and the soul are distinct.
The body is an extended thing.
God exists and the soul is immortal.
The senses are deceptive and unreliable.
What is the main significance of the Evil Demon Argument in Descartes' 'Meditation on First Philosophy?'
The senses are deceptive.
The mind is the basis of Truth.
Doubt is the basis of Truth.
Certitude is the basis of Truth.
What according to Descartes, is the real source of error?
The human intellect.
The wrong choice of man.
The misuse of free will.
The act of the human will.
According to Descartes, the idea of God:
Is simply an invention of the mind.
Is innate.
Exists independently of experience.
Is produced by something external to the mind.
Which of these is false about Descartes' view of the senses?
Knowledge of the senses are apriori.
All knowledge of the senses should be discarded.
Senses are basically deceptive.
Senses come from experience.
To the empiricists and rationalists, the primary and reliable source of knowledge are respectively:
Senses and Evidence.
Reason and Experience.
Experience and Reason.
Thought and Intuition.
The Scientific Method of Inquiry can be best considered credible because it is:
Limited to the efficiency of the instrument used.
Spatio-temporarily determined.
Rectificative in its approach.
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.
Emanationism.
Evolutionism.
Creationism.
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:
Habitual intention.
Interpretative intention.
Actual 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:
Indirect and Therapeutic abortion.
Direct and Involuntary abortion.
Therapeutic and Direct abortion.
Direct and Indirect abortion.
Identify two philosophers below who think that the State hinders human liberty;
Hobbes and Locke.
Marx and Althusser,.
Hegel and Marx.
Althusser and Rousseau.
Which of the following is an adequate strength of Democracy as a form of government?
There is the dominance of the will of the majority.
The leaders execute the voted laws.
There is fear of the majority.
There is the protection of minority rights.
What type of Justice has to do with the fair meting out of punishment to citizens for wrong doings?
Contributive justice.
Distributive justice.
Social justice.
Commutative justice.
Which of the following can be considered as the most adequate definition of Religion?
Man's worshipping the absolute Spiritual forces.
The relationship between the human self and the Divine.
Man's absolute dependence on a supernatural entity.
The belief in the existence of a supreme Divine entity.
St. Anselm's view that 'God is a Being than which none greater can be conceived', is basically:
Ontological.
Cosmological.
Teleological.
Moral.
A child born with disabilities can partly be described as a consequence of
Natural evil.
Metaphysical evil.
Physical evil.
Moral evil.