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Default Philosophy Papers 2010

PHILOSOPHY, PAPER-I

FEDERAL PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION
COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION FOR
RECRUITMENT TO POSTS IN BPS-17 UNDER
THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, 2010

PART – I (MCQ)
(COMPULSORY)


Q.1. Select the best option/answer and fill in the appropriate box on the Answer Sheet. (20)

(a) Which of the following are propositions? Choose True or False:

(i) Logic distinguisher correct reasoning from incorrect reasoning:
(a) True
(b) False

(ii) Conclusion can be drawn from two negative premises in categorical syllogism:
(a) True
(b) False

(iii) If a premise of categorical syllogism is negative the conclusion must be negative:
(a) True
(b) False

(iv) Syllogism does not commit the fallacy of Petitio principii:
(a) True
(b) False

(v) To consider what is true of the whole must be true of its parts, is not fallacy:
(a) True
(b) False

(b) Which one of the following is a proposition and which is not:

(vi) Close the door:
(a) Yes
(b) No

(vii) Some students are intelligent:
(a) Yes
(b) No

(viii) What a pleasant evening:
(a) Yes
(b) No

(ix) All men are mortal:
(a) Yes
(b) No

(x) Some books of Logic are not interesting:
(a) Yes
(b) No

(c) Choose the best options:

(xi) Deductive logic was introduced by:
(a) Pythagoras
(b) Plato
(c) Aristotle
(d) None of these

(xii) Inductive Logic was introduced by:
(a) Socrates
(b) Francis Bacon
(c) Russell
(d) None of these

(xiii) Al Radd al Mantiqiyeen was written by:
(a) Al Ghazali
(b) Ibn-e-Taimiyah
(c) Ibn-e-Sina
(d) None of these

(xiv) Inference of induction argument is:
(a) necessary
(b) probable
(c) invalid
(d) None of these

(xv) Logic is a:
(a) Behavioural science
(b) Normative science
(c) Natural science
(d) None of these

(xvi) If in categorical syllogism the middle term is not distributed, it commits the fallacy of:
(a) Existential fallacy
(b) Undistributed Middle
(c) Illicit major
(d) None of these

(xvii) Symbolic logic is different from:
(a) Deductive logic
(b) Inductive logic
(c) Both of these
(d) None of these

(xviii) Hypothesis is important in:
(a) Scientific explanation
(b) Deductive logic
(c) Symbolic logic
(d) None of these

(xix) Dilemma is a rhetoric argument:
(a) Correct
(b) Incorrect
(c) None of these

(xx) Where P is true and q is false, P.q is:
(a) True
(b) False
(c) None of these
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