UNIUYO GST 200 Level Philosophy Past Questions & Answers – First Semester Exams (Updated 2025)

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UNIUYO GST 200 Level Philosophy Past Questions and Answers for First Semester Exams. Covers all 40 multiple-choice questions.

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UNIUYO GST 200 Level Philosophy Past Questions

Philosophers view philosophy in the following perspective except?
(a) Emotions (b) Personal views (c) Conclusions (d) Prescriptions
Answer: (a) Emotions
Philosophy comes from two Greek words which are ………………….
(a) Sophie and Phina (b) Sophai and Philien (c) Sophia and Philein (d) Suffer and Philien
Answer: (c) Sophia and Philein
Who defines philosophy as the “irresistible desire to search for the foundational or universal nature of things”?
(a) Plato (b) Aristotle (c) Christian (d) Udoidem
Answer: (b) Aristotle
“Philosophy is a human enterprise to be inquired into rather than a mere term to be defined” — who receives credit for the quoted statement?
(a) Christian Grey (b) Stoics (c) Jeremy Bentham (d) Herman Randall
Answer: (d) Herman Randall
According to Harold Titus, philosophy can be understood through one of the following ways?
(a) The study of Plato and Aristotle (b) Understanding fallacious reasoning (c) Reflected thinking and seasoned enquiry (d) Dogmatic arguments in what you believe in
Answer: (c) Reflected thinking and seasoned enquiry
According to Russell, philosophy is something intermediate to …………… and ………………?
(a) Science and technology (b) Science and engineering (c) Science and math (d) Science and theology
Answer: (d) Science and theology
Ethics and ……………. are the branches of Axiology?
(a) Metaphysics (b) Logic (c) Aesthetics (d) Epistemology
Answer: (c) Aesthetics
While logic is concerned with reasoning, epistemology is concerned with …………..?
(a) Reliability of claims to knowledge (b) Morality (c) Understanding of the supernatural (d) Love
Answer: (a) Reliability of claims to knowledge
Philosophy and science could have been brought forth in?
(a) 585 B.C (b) 586 B.C (c) 587 B.C (d) 588 B.C
Answer: (a) 585 B.C
Thales, Anaximenes and Anaximander were ………….?
(a) Stoics (b) Milesian philosophers (c) Ethical thinkers (d) Scientists
Answer: (b) Milesian philosophers
According to Pythagoras, all things consist of ……….?
(a) Radius (b) Circumference (c) Numbers (d) Algebra
Answer: (c) Numbers
In philosophy, idealism is traceable to ……..?
(a) Aristotle (b) Plato (c) Randall (d) Christian
Answer: (b) Plato
“Fides procidit intellectum” means ……….?
(a) Faith must exist before one can understand (b) Faith proceeds intelligence (c) Intelligence proceeds faith (d) Fidelity proceeds intelligence
Answer: (a) Faith must exist before one can understand
“Credo ut intelligam” can be interpreted as …………?
(a) Every creation is intelligent (b) I believe in order to understand (c) Credibility is intelligence (d) Cradle to intelligence
Answer: (b) I believe in order to understand
……………. was the foremost realist?
(a) Plato (b) Aristotle (c) Harold (d) Randall
Answer: (b) Aristotle
Who emphasized the cash value of an idea?
(a) John Dewey (b) Jeremy Bentham (c) Plato (d) Aristotle
Answer: (a) John Dewey
The primary aim of education for the existentialist is to enable ……..?
(a) Man exist happily (b) Man live an authentic life (c) Preserve humanity (d) A moral free society
Answer: (b) Man live an authentic life
Who is regarded as the father of political science?
(a) Aristotle (b) Plato (c) Karl Marx (d) Thomas Hobbes
Answer: (a) Aristotle
According to John Locke, …………. is the basis of government?
(a) Law (b) Force (c) Rights (d) The Bible
Answer: (c) Rights
Karl Marx explained the historical process in ……….?
(a) Marxian terms (b) Proletariat terms (c) Economic terms (d) Bourgeois terms
Answer: (c) Economic terms

Knowledge: Types, Nature and Problems

One of the following philosophers is the author of The Problems of Philosophy?
(a) Jeremy Bentham (b) Bertrand Russell (c) Thomas Hobbes (d) John Locke
Answer: (b) Bertrand Russell
Epistemology asserts that knowledge is ……….?
(a) A true belief (b) A justified belief (c) A justified true belief (d) A dogmatic belief
Answer: (c) A justified true belief
Gorgias was a ……….?
(a) Moralist (b) Realist (c) Sophist (d) Idealist
Answer: (c) Sophist
“If knowledge is possible, it must be able to be thoroughly grounded. But knowledge is not able to be thoroughly grounded; therefore knowledge is impossible” — the quoted argument is the position of ……….?
(a) Ethics (b) Metaphysics (c) Locus (d) Skepticism
Answer: (d) Skepticism
According to Karl Popper, the following procedures lead to knowledge:
(a) Observation → Problem → Testing → Theory → Problem
(b) Problem → Testing → Experimentation → Theory → Problem
(c) Problem → Observation → Experimentation → Theory → Problem
(d) Testing → Experimentation → Theory → Problem
Answer: (c) Problem → Observation → Experimentation → Theory → Problem
Mills defines induction as ……………?
(a) Seeking of wisdom (b) Dogmatic expression (c) Generalization of knowledge (d) Introduction of a theory
Answer: (c) Generalization of knowledge
………………… such as Descartes, Spinoza and Leibniz were of the opinion that reason or intellect is the primary source for the acquisition of ideas.
(a) Idealists (b) Rationalists (c) Naturalists (d) Scientists
Answer: (b) Rationalists
The following philosophers were notable classical empiricists except ……..?
(a) Immanuel Kant (b) David Hume (c) George Berkeley (d) John Locke
Answer: (a) Immanuel Kant
One of the following philosophers opined that both the intellect and senses were necessary for the acquisition of knowledge?
(a) Immanuel Kant (b) David Hume (c) George Berkeley (d) John Locke
Answer: (a) Immanuel Kant
……………….. is credited with highlighting the problem of belief as a condition of knowledge?
(a) Edmund Gettier (b) Colin Radford (c) Charles Popper (d) Tih Spinoza
Answer: (a) Edmund Gettier
One of the following scholars rejects the notion of justification but rather sees science or knowledge generally in terms of context of discovery?
(a) Gettier (b) Radford (c) Popper (d) Spinoza
Answer: (c) Popper
One of the following scholars believes that truth should be seen as an ideal on which only approximations can be made?
(a) Edmund Gettier (b) Colin Radford (c) Karl Popper (d) Spinoza
Answer: (c) Karl Popper
………… means that we should suspend our judgment rather than affirm or deny any knowledge claim?
(a) Skepticism (b) Rationalism (c) Realism (d) Idealism
Answer: (a) Skepticism
Inductivists believe that during knowledge enquiry …………….. comes before ……………?
(a) Collection of data, observation (b) Observation, collection of data (c) Theory, formulation of hypothesis (d) Theory, experimentation
Answer: (b) Observation, collection of data
Any society that fails to identify the problem of knowledge will find itself at …………..?
(a) Abyss of frustration (b) At the mercy of vagaries of nature (c) A road of no return (d) A kingdom of no ruler
Answer: (b) At the mercy of vagaries of nature
Human senses are …………………?
(a) Infallible and strong (b) Perfect and dominant (c) Optimistic and hopeful (d) Fallible and prone to error
Answer: (d) Fallible and prone to error
……………… believes that there is no knowledge beyond doubt?
(a) Rationalism (b) Empiricism (c) Axiology (d) Skepticism
Answer: (d) Skepticism
According to Mautner, people can know different things but cannot know ……………….?
(a) Similar things (b) Variable things (c) Incompatible things (d) Synonymous things
Answer: (c) Incompatible things
Modern philosophers believe that ……………….. and ……………….. are both necessary in the acquisition of knowledge.
(a) Inductive and deductive reasoning (b) Positive and negative reasoning (c) Optimistic and pessimistic reasoning (d) Legal and illegal reasoning
Answer: (a) Inductive and deductive reasoning
Bertrand Russell believed that definite knowledge belongs to …………………. and not philosophy?
(a) Religion (b) Angels (c) Science (d) Metaphysics
Answer: (c) Science