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