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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:
Sub-Contrariety.
Contradiction.
Subalternation.
Contrariety.
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 one premise is omitted.
When the minor premise is omitted.
When the major premise is omitted.
A form of the Dilemma with a negative categorical conclusion is known as:
A Simple Constructive Dilemma.
A Complex Constructive Dilemma.
A Simple Destructive Dilemma.
A Complex 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 rain did not fall.
The sun did not shine.
The rain falls.
Neither did the rain fall nor did the sun shine.
The Fallacy of 'affirming the consequence' in a Modus Ponens argument is committed when:
The minor premise affirms the antecedent and conclusion the consequent.
The minor premise denies the consequent and conclusion of the antecedent.
The minor premise denies the antecedent and conclusion the consequent.
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:
Ambiguity.
Accent.
Amphiboly.
Equivocation.
A student who justifies his late coming on the basis that the teacher is always late also commits the Fallacy of:
Ad Populum.
Ignoratio Elenchi.
Tu Quoque.
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
Invalid Modus Tollens.
Valid Modus Tollens.
Valid Modus Ponens.
Invalid Modus Ponens.
Using quantification symbols of propositional functions the statement « none but thieves tell lies » can best be translated as:
(x) (Lx ⊃ Tx).
(x) (Tx ⊃ ¬Lx).
(x) (Lx ⊃ ¬Tx).
(x) (Tx ⊃ Lx).
The quest for reasoned explanation for natural phenomena ushered the beginning of:
Science.
Philosophy.
Mythology.
Religion.
What is the distinct role that myths play for a people?
Source of common entertainment.
A Provides answers to fundamental questions about their existence.
Gives guidance on how to live.
Help bind cultures together.
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:
Aristotle.
Heraclitus.
Parmenides.
Anaxagoras.
Pythagoras' assertion that: knowledge is neither universal nor objective', can best be qualified as:
Agnosticism.
Relativism.
Scepticism.
Subjectivism.
Socratic Ethics is considered eudemonistic because:
It is aimed at attaining happiness.
It is aimed at realising one's functions.
It is aimed at fulfilling its function of attaining one's virtue.
It is aimed at making the soul perfect and good.
The main characteristics of Plato's Forms are:
Immaterial, Mutable, Eternal.
Immaterial, Immutable, Eternal.
Material, Mutable, Eternal.
Material, Immutable, Eternal.
According to Aristotle, primary substances a made up of two elements, namely:
Substance and Accident.
Matter and Form.
Form and Accident.
Essence and Existence.
St. Thomas Aquinas considers the relationship between Faith and Reason as being:
Complementing each other.
Synonymous to each other.
Distinct from one another.
Opposed to each other.
The major objective ofDescartes in methodic doubt was:
To arrive at true and certain knowledge.
To doubt all his previous knowledge.
Faith Supplements reason.
Helping man to understand God.
The two forms of experience according to John Locke are:
Intuition and deduction.
Matter and Form.
Sensation and reflection.
Reason and revelation.
The Empiricists claim that knowledge is only attainable through:
Reason.
Faith.
DogmA.
Experience.
By describing the African mind as being 'pre- logical' Levy Bruhl meant:
The African mind does not respect the Laws of thought.
The Africans are attached to their cultures.
Africans are not thinking beings.
Africans cannot philosophise.
Which of the following justifies Hegel's thesis on History and the Africans?
Africans cannot philosophise.
The Africans are ahistorical.
Africans are irrational.
The Africans are not free people.
An outstanding Cameroonian proponent of Ethnophilosophy is :
Basile Fouda.
Njoh Mouelle.
Eboussi BoulagA.
Marcien Towa.
An outstanding Cameroonian proponent of Professional Philosophy is:
Njoh Mouelle.
Meinrad HebgA.
Basile FoudA.
Marcien Towa.
The book 'Bantu Philosophy' was written by:
Placide Tempels.
Odera Oruka.
Paulin Hountondji.
Kwasi Wiredu.
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?
Enhance African personality.
Militate for the liberation of the Africans.
Seek solutions for the development of the African.
Promote African unity.
The concept 'Sage Philosophy' was coined by:
Kwame Gyekye.
Placide Tempels.
Odera Oruka.
Paulin Hountondji.
The study of reality existing in everything and in every Being in the African universe best describes:
African Metaphysics.
African Ethics.
African Religion.
African Epistemology.
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.
Metaphysical, Laws of nature, Moral and Religious.
Laws of nature, Moral, Religious and Metaphysical.
Religious, Metaphysical, 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.
Hereditary rule and elitist rule.
Monopartism and multipartism.
Rule by consensus and majority 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.
Freudian egoism.
Accidental egoism.
According to the pro-life argument, the moral permissibility of an act is based on:
Human freedom.
Sanctity of Life.
Societal Laws.
Individual 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 Homicide, Miscarriage and Drowning.
Miscarriage and drowning, Abortion and Homicide.
Abortion and Miscarriage, Homicide and Drowning.
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?
Utilitarianism.
Double effect.
Personalism.
Higher good.
When J.J. Rousseau declares that << Man is born free, but everywhere is in chains » he means that:
The alienable rights are limited.
Society is a hindrance to man's growth.
The other is a limitation to man's freedom.
The inalienable rights are limited.
In 'The Republic', Plato posits that the culminating virtue found in the state is:
Wisdom.
Temperance.
Justice.
Courage.
Which amongst the system of government is ruled by a select few?
Aristocracy.
Timocracy.
Tyranny.
Plutocracy.
Nietzsche's description of the state as monsters' best validates:
The misuse of power by the state:
The use of war by the state.
The use of violence by the state.
The use 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:
Atheism.
Agnosticism.
Theism.
Deism.
Aquinas' knowledge of God by Analogy is represented aptly in the following sequence:
Equivocal, Univocal and Analogical.
Univocal, Analogical and Equivocal.
Analogical, Univocal and Equivocal.
Univocal, Equivocal and Analogical.
A situation in which innocent children are killed by unidentified men can best be described as:
Physical Evil.
Natural Evil.
Moral Evil.
Metaphysical Evil.
The Sartrean assertion that « Existence precedes essence» can best be interpreted as:
Human destiny is determined.
Human destiny is predetermined.
There is a defined human nature.
There is no defined human nature.
Philosophy and Religion both seek the truth but from different angles precisely in that:
Philosophy is objective while Religion is subjective.
Philosophy is reason bound while Religion is faith bound.
Philosophy deliberates on reason while Religion harps on revelation.
Philosophy is sometimes dogmatic while Religion is never dogmatic.
One of the outstanding usefulness of Philosophy to humanity at large is that:
It enhances the human world view.
It sharpens the human thinking capacity.
It liberates the human mind from cultural precepts.
It distorts the spirit of creativity.
