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FIRST QUARTER EXAMINITION IN PHILOSOPHY

Directions: Read each item carefully. Encircle the letter of the correct answer. No erasures allowed!!!

1. The study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence,
knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language.
a. Philo c. Sophia
b. love of wisdom d. Science
2. Philosophy started with _________.
a. asking c. answering
b. wondering d. searching
3. What do you mean by point of view?
a. the things you see c. personal opinion
b. the view of something d. personal interest
4. Every individual in this world is _________.
a. the same c. divest
b. identical d. diverse
5. A=A, B=B, A≠B, is an example of what highest principle?
a. Principle of Identify c. Principle of Non-Contradiction
b. Principle of Excluded Middle d. Principle of Contradiction
6. All parrots are Bird≠All parrots are not Bird, is an example of what highest principle?
a. Principle of Identify c. Principle of Non-Contradiction
b. Principle of Excluded Middle d. Principle of Contradiction
7. A boy or a man, both boy and man, is an example of what highest principle?
a. Principle of Identify c. Principle of Non-Contradiction
b. Principle of Excluded Middle d. Principle of Contradiction
8. Cat=Cat, Dog≠Cat, is an example of what highest principle?
a. Principle of Identify c. Principle of Non-Contradiction
b. Principle of Excluded Middle d. Principle of Contradiction
9. Sufficient reason is a _______.
a. priori proof c. logic
b. inductive d. deductive
10. What does it mean to WONDER?
a. To be curious of something.
b. To think beyond what your senses can sense.
c. All realize that there is something strange behind the things that we ordinarily perceive.
d. All of the above
11. To philosophize is to wonder about life about the following, EXCEPT.
a. love and loneliness c. birth and death
b. truth and beauty d. water and fire
12. The branch of philosophy dealing with the nature of beauty, art, taste, and the creation and
appreciation of beauty.
a. Metaphysics c. Logic
b. Aesthetics d. Epistemology
e. Ethics
13. The branch of philosophy concerned with the nature and scope (including limitations) of knowledge.
a. Metaphysics c. Logic
b. Aesthetics d. Epistemology
e. Ethics
14. Concerned with explaining the fundamental nature of being and the world.
a. Metaphysics c. Logic
b. Aesthetics d. Epistemology
e. Ethics
15. Is the study of reasoning.
a. Metaphysics c. Logic
b. Aesthetics d. Epistemology
e. Ethics
16. Also known as moral philosophy, is a branch of philosophy which seeks to address questions about
Morality.
a. Metaphysics c. Logic
b. Aesthetics d. Epistemology
e. Ethics
17. Cosmology and ________ are the two traditional branches of metaphysics.
a. Astronomy c. Ontology
b. Biology d. Osmology
18. ________ was the great exponent of empiricism.
a. David Hume c. William Edward Burghardt Du Bois
b. Hans-Georg Gadamer d. John Locke
19. Ideas are not innate in the human mind. At birth the mind is a _______.
a. Blank slate c. Empty slate
b. clean paper d. All of the above
20. ________ was the first philosopher to devise a logical method.
a. Socrates c. Plato
b. Aristotle d. Ptolome
21. What is the value of doing philosophy?
a. It broadens your world. c. It trains your mind.
b. It challenges you. d. All of the above
22. The following are example of negative habit of Filipino, EXCEPT.
a. mańana habit c. Filipino time
b. hospitality d. crab mentality
23. The following are example of contraceptive, EXCEPT.
a. condom c. pills
b. IUD d. seeds
24. All of the statement are opinion, EXCEPT.
a. Daisies are the prettiest of all flowers.
b. Flies are annoying when they are inside your house.
c. It is harder to divide than multiply numbers.
d. Jumping rope is a form of exercise.
25. All of the statement are fact, EXCEPT.
a. Fridays come before Saturdays in the calendar.
b. Flowers bloom in the spring and summer months.
c. Angela is a girl.
d. Saturday is the best day of the week.
26. The state or actual state of a matter; the state or character of being true.
a. Fact c. Reality
b. Truth d. Existence
27. All of the statement are Truth, EXCEPT.
a. The building is 500 feet high.
b. Mary is afraid of going up there.
c. Jesse is 23 years old.
d. John is in Paris.
28. It is to think or express oneself in a philosophical manner.
a. Philosophy c. Philosophize
b. Experiment d. Interview
29. Based on the premise that reality consists of objects and events ("phenomena").
a. Phenomenology c. Existentialism
b. Postmodernism d. Analytic Tradition
30. Reality cannot be known nor described objectively.
a. Phenomenology c. Existentialism
b. Postmodernism d. Analytic Tradition
31. Based in exercising choices and personal freedom.
a. Phenomenology c. Existentialism
b. Postmodernism d. Analytic Tradition
32. Language cannot objectively describe truth.
a. Phenomenology c. Existentialism
b. Postmodernism d. Analytic Tradition
33. Truth is based on person’s consciousness.
a. Phenomenology c. Existentialism
b. Postmodernism d. Analytic Tradition
34. To be human is to be free to choose and responsible for one’s life.
a. Phenomenology c. Existentialism
b. Postmodernism d. Analytic Tradition
35. Truth is not absolute (i.e. cultural).
a. Phenomenology c. Existentialism
b. Postmodernism d. Analytic Tradition
36. If two premises are constructed logically, then the conclusion ___________.
a. must follow not logically.
b. must follow directly
c. must follow logically.
d. None of the above
37. Fallacies are __________.
a. defects in an Argonne.
b. defects in an argument.
c. infect in an Argonne
d. infect in an argument
38. Here our “feeling sorry for someone drives us to a position on an unrelated matter.
a. Appeal to Ignorance d. Argument from Pity
b. Equivocation e. Composition
c. Appeal to Force f. Against the Person
39. This argument uses force, the threat of force, or some other unpleasant backlash to make the audience
accept a conclusion.
a. Appeal to Ignorance d. Argument from Pity
b. Equivocation e. Composition
c. Appeal to Force f. Against the Person
40. Attacking or praising the people who make an argument rather than discussing the argument itself.
a. Appeal to Ignorance d. Argument from Pity
b. Equivocation e. Composition
c. Appeal to Force f. Against the Person
41. It is an inductive error.
a. Appeal to Ignorance d. Argument from Pity
b. Equivocation e. Composition
c. Appeal to Force f. Against the Person
42. This is a logical chain of reasoning of a term or a word several times, but giving the particular word a
different meaning each time.
a. Appeal to Ignorance d. Argument from Pity
b. Equivocation e. Composition
c. Appeal to Force f. Against the Person
43. An appeal to ignorance occurs when one person uses another person’s lack of knowledge on a
particular subject as evidence that their own argument is correct.
a. Appeal to Ignorance d. Argument from Pity
b. Equivocation e. Composition
 c. Appeal to Force f. Against the Person
44. Mr Cruz, I think you should render an overtime service tomorrow. I would like to remind you that last
year, the company fired 10 employees. Is an example of?
a. Appeal to Ignorance d. Argument from Pity
b. Equivocation e. Composition
c. Appeal to Force f. Against the Person
45. “Don’t listen to Eddie’s arguments on education, he’s an idiot.” Is an example of?
a. Appeal to Ignorance d. Argument from Pity
b. Equivocation e. Composition
c. Appeal to Force f. Against the Person
46. The bells ring. He gave her a ring. Sun – Son, is an example of?
a. Appeal to Ignorance d. Argument from Pity
b. Equivocation e. Composition
c. Appeal to Force f. Against the Person
47. We should hire Helen for she barely needs to support her starving children. Is an example of?
a. Appeal to Ignorance d. Argument from Pity
b. Equivocation e. Composition
c. Appeal to Force f. Against the Person
48. “You can’t prove that there aren’t Martians living in caves under the surface of Mars, so it is
reasonable for me to believe there are.” Is an example of?
a. Appeal to Ignorance d. Argument from Pity
b. Equivocation e. Composition
c. Appeal to Force f. Against the Person
49-50. Methods of Philosophy Lead to ________ and ________.
a. wisdom and truth c. reality and faith
b. love and pleasure d. existence and fact