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SUB-TOPIC INFO – Philosophy (Section I: Metaphysics)
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Appearance and Reality
(Metaphysics)
CUET PG – Philosophy (Practice Questions)
1. The philosophical problem of appearance and reality primarily concerns the relationship between:
A. Language and logic
B. Ethics and politics
C. How things seem and how they are
D. Mind and body
Answer: C
2. Plato located true reality in:
A. Sensory objects
B. Mental images
C. The Forms
D. Linguistic conventions
Answer: C
3. In Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, the shadows represent:
A. Forms
B. Scientific truths
C. Appearances mistaken for reality
D. Moral values
Answer: C
4. The Form of the Good in Plato symbolizes:
A. Ethical relativism
B. Ultimate intelligibility and reality
C. Political authority
D. Sensory pleasure
Answer: B
5. Aristotle rejected Plato’s theory of Forms mainly because:
A. Forms deny change
B. Forms are unknowable
C. Forms are separated from sensible things
D. Forms eliminate substance
Answer: C
6. For Aristotle, the underlying reality of a thing is its:
A. Accident
B. Sensation
C. Substance
D. Appearance
Answer: C
7. Accidents in Aristotle’s metaphysics are properties that:
A. Define essence
B. Cannot change
C. Change without altering substance
D. Are illusory
Answer: C
8. Pyrrhonian skepticism recommends suspension of judgment because:
A. Reason is supreme
B. Senses are infallible
C. Perceptions conflict
D. Forms are eternal
Answer: C
9. The Pyrrhonian term for suspension of judgment is:
A. Logos
B. Episteme
C. Epoché
D. Doxa
Answer: C
10. Descartes’ methodic doubt was designed to:
A. Destroy all knowledge
B. Establish indubitable foundations
C. Defend skepticism
D. Support empiricism
Answer: B
