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SUB-TOPIC INFO – Philosophy (Section II: Epistemology)
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Theories of Truth
(Epistemology)
CUET PG – Philosophy (Practice Questions)
1. Which assumption underlies the oath taken by witnesses in a court of law?
A. Truth is always relative
B. Truth has a shared meaning
C. Truth is legally defined
D. Truth depends on authority
Answer: B
2. Philosophers generally analyze truth primarily in relation to what?
A. Emotions
B. Language
C. Propositions and beliefs
D. Moral values
Answer: C
3. According to Voltaire, which claim about truth is correct?
A. Truth has a final definition
B. Truth is unknowable
C. Truth can be humanly defined but revised
D. Truth is purely subjective
Answer: C
4. Why is defining truth philosophically difficult?
A. It is culturally relative
B. It is a basic concept used in all inquiry
C. It is purely empirical
D. It changes historically
Answer: B
5. Which concept is most directly connected to truth in witness testimony?
A. Desire
B. Belief
C. Power
D. Consensus
Answer: B
6. Knowledge requires which essential condition?
A. Utility
B. Consensus
C. Truth
D. Authority
Answer: C
7. Believing a false proposition to be true results in what?
A. Skepticism
B. Error-free belief
C. False knowledge
D. Rational doubt
Answer: C
8. If certainty is impossible, what follows according to strict epistemology?
A. Knowledge becomes probabilistic
B. Truth becomes meaningless
C. Knowledge becomes impossible
D. Belief replaces truth
Answer: C
9. Which position denies that any belief is more justified than its negation?
A. Realism
B. Pragmatism
C. Skepticism
D. Coherentism
Answer: C
10. Skepticism primarily arises from concern about what?
A. Language ambiguity
B. Moral disagreement
C. Correspondence with reality
D. Scientific method
Answer: C
