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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 quality of propositions.

The structure of a syllogism.

The Form of Propositions.

The matter 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 Exclusive premises.

Fallacy of illicit major.

Fallacy of illicit minor.

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 consequent.

Affirming the antecedent.

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 the populace.

Appeal to pity.

Abusive personal attack.

A mixed hypothetical syllogism's constituent propositions are:

Mixture of hypothetical and categoric.

All hypothetical.

All disjunctive.

All categorical.

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

First order enthymeme.

Third order enthymeme.

Second order enthymeme.

Immediate inference.

A Sorites is considered Gocleanian because it is:

Figure 1.

Figure 4.

Figure 3.

Figure 2.

The complex dilemma of the affirming mode is:

A complex Destructive.

A complex constructive dilemma.

A Destructive Dilemma.

A complex Dilemma.

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

r ≡ w.

w ≡ r.

w ⊃ r.

r ⊃ w.

Compound propositions are made up of:

Molecular propositions linked by connectives.

Atomic and molecular propositions.

Atomic propositions linked by truth functions.

Truth-functional connectives.

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 braces.

Grouped with connectives.

Grouped with parentheses.

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:

Bound variables.

Bound constants.

Bound quantifiers.

Free variables.

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

Myths teaches immortality.

Myths elevates man intellectually.

Myths prescribe social hierarchy.

Provides norms of religious worship.

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

Thales. Anaximenes, Anaximander.

Anaximander, Anaximenes, Thales.

Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes.

Anaximenes, Anaximander, Thales.

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

Nihilism.

Skepticism.

Agnosticism.

Relativism.

Which of the following describes the Socratic Method?

Irony.

Elenchus.

The Maieutics.

The Dialectics.

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

That material entities have full existence.

That only forms have full existence.

That being is material.

That material entities have not existence.

To Aristotle, the Entelechy signifies:

The ultimate cause of all changes in universe.

The midway between potency and actuality.

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

Distinctive end to achieve a function.

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

Faith and reason are complementary.

Reason is superior to faith.

The truth is in Religion rather than philosophy.

Faith is superior to reason.

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

Sensitive knowledge.

Demonstrative knowledge.

Demonstrative perception.

Intuitive perception.

Descartes's first rule of method is:

Evidence.

Enumeration.

Analysis.

Synthesis.

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

Efficient cause-Final cause.

Substance-Accident.

Matter-Form.

Potentiality and Actuality.

The basic principles of Scholastic thought are:

Faith, Reason, God's existence.

Argument, Faith, Sacred Scriptures.

Reasoned argument, Authority, Harmony of Faith and Reason.

Reasoned discourse, Harmony, Faith.

The Cartesian rules of method are based on:

Deduction and enumeration.

Evidence and Intuition.

Intuition and Deduction.

Analysis and synthesis.

The description of primitive mental logic was made by:

Levy- Bruhl.

Kant.

Heidegger.

Hegel.

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

Placid Tempels.

Kwame Nkrumah.

Odera Oruka.

Paulin Hountondji.

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

The folk sage.

The philosophy sage.

The cultural sage.

The Ethnic sage.

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

'Tribalism'.

'Negritude'.

'Ujama'a.

'Ubuntu'.

Which of the following pairs were proponents of PanAfricanism?

Hountondji and Marcus Garvey.

William Du Bois and Nkrumah.

Wiredu and Du Bois.

Marcus Garvey and Marcien Town.

Which Cameroonian philosopher was an ardent critique of ethno philosophy?

Juléat Basil Fouda.

Eboussi Boulaga.

Njoh Mouelle.

Marcien Towa.

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

African Ontology.

African Cosmogony.

African Cosmology:

African Metaphysics.

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

Un Reasonable.

Not Based on universal principles.

Unscientific.

More psychological than real.

Which of the following is FALSE of African epistemology?

Normative epistemology.

Indigenous epistemology.

Social epistemology.

Specific 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:

Dualistic vs. Pluralist.

Relational vs. Individualistic.

Communitarian vs authoritarian.

Hierarchical vs. relational.

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

It has led to nationalist ideological thinking.

It has promoted African indigenous thought.

It has rejected Eurocentrism.

It has led to conceptual decolonization.

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.

From fear and under force.

Under force and with fear.

Which of these is weak as an argument against violence?

Violence leads to the destruction of the fabric of society.

The slippery.

Violence safeguards the sanctity of life principle.

Violence checks off tyrannical systems.

'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:

Private interest and excellence.

Freedom for all and the wealthy few.

Excellence and wealthy few.

Wealthy few and private interests.

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

Natural law in rational beings.

Human law in inert entities.

Positive law.

External law in natural entities.

'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 Atheism.

Theism and Agnosticism.

Deism and Theism.

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:

God's goodness.

Natural disasters.

Man's misuse of his freewill.

God's abandonment of the Universe.

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

Karma.

Immortality.

Metempsychosis.

Transfiration.

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

Traditionation.

Animism.

Pantheism.

Agnosticism.

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

The law enhances human freedom.

The law promulgates human freedom.

Man is free in the presence of the law.

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.

Analytical.

Critical.

Sceptical.

One of the fundamental values of philosophy is that:

It liberates the body from pains.

It liberates the mind from prejudices.

It permits us to have informed religious beliefs.

It creates the spirit of subversion in the individual.