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FEDERAL PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION
COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION FOR RECRUITMENT TO POSTS
IN BPS – 17 UNDER THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, 2005.

PHILOSOPHY, PAPER - I

TIME ALLOWED: THREE HOURS MAXIMUM MARKS:100

NOTE: Attempt all questions. Give details in relevance to the marks assigned to the Question. Question No. 8 is objective.

1. Logic is the Science of valid thought. How can we determine validity?

2. Bring out the difference between truth and validity?
OR
hat is conclusion indicator and premises indicators?

3. Al Farabi divides logic into low many kinds/categories?

4. Write short notes on Inductive Leap?
OR
What do you mean by ARGUMENTS IN CONTEXT?

5. Discuss the EMOTELY NEUTRAL LANGUAGE?

6. What is the form of discourse and its multiple functions?
OR
Critically discuss fallacies of Relevance.

7. Bring out the difference between:
(a) Ad IGNORANTIAN, and
(b) Ad VERECUNDIAN


COMPULSORY QUESTION

8. PART – I: Write True and False in the Answer Book. Do not reproduce the question:
(1) Logic is Normative Science.
(2) If Premises are true conclusion must be true
(3) Premises are not in declarative form
(4) A proposition by itself is not an argument
(5) Deduction is based on induction.

PART – II: Which of the following are Propositions? Which are not right or wrong.
(6) Come a long
(7) I a man.
(8) Every student studies hard
(9) Truth is better than falsehood
(10) I wish I could go to London

PART – III: Do as directed.
(11) Evaluate the square of opposition in the light of Modern logic.

(12) How do you demarcate a line of difference between:
(a) QUALITY
(b) QUANTITY
(c) DISTRIBUTION

(13) Is immediate inference based on:
(a) CONVERSION
(b) OBVERSION

(14) Draw a diagram for categorical proposition.

(15) What you prefer Deduction or Induction argue with your own examples.

PART – IV: Write only the correct answer in the Answer Book. Do not reproduce the questions.
(16) __________ of a syllogism uniquely determines its form:
(a) Proposition
(b) Conclusion
(c) Mood
(d) Figure
(e) Something else

(17) Kitab-al-Abr is written by:
(a) SINA
(b) FARABI
(c) Khaldun
(d) Rushd
(e) None of these

(18) C is the symbol of _____________ in logic.
(a) Implication
(b) Disjunction
(c) Conjection
(d) None of these

(19) Conclusions is drawn from __________ in Deduction.
(a) Propositions
(b) Premises
(c) Simple enumeration
(d) Something else

(20) Logic is based on __________.
(a) Language
(b) Argument
(c) Validity
(d) Some other
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FEDERAL PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION
COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION FOR RECRUITMENT TO POSTS
IN BPS – 17 UNDER THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, 2005.

PHILOSOPHY, PAPER - II

TIME ALLOWED: THREE HOURS MAXIMUM MARKS:100

NOTE: Attempt all questions. The length of the answers should be in line with the Marks assigned to question.

1. PART – A: Name the authors of the following great Philosophical work:
  1. Al-Thamanat Al-Mardiya
  2. Al-Qift’s
  3. Talkhis-kitab al-Maqulat
  4. Hujat al Haq
  5. Kitab al Abre
PART – B: Fill in the blanks with any of the words/names, etc.
(6) Idealism is started from ___________.
(a) Thales
(b) Phytagoras
(C) Permendis/Plato
(d) Some other

(7) The first Man who is called the founder of Pragmatism is ______________.
(a) Aristotle
(b) W. James
(c) Protagoras
(d) Some other

(8) The varieties of Religious experience written by:
(a) Iqbal
(b) Russell
(c) W. James
(d) Some other

(9) Principle of Verification is used in ________________
(a) Logical Positivism
(b) Realism
(c) Pragmatism
(d) Some other

(10) SENSE-DATA originated by _________.
(a) B. Russell
(b) Withgeinstim
(c) G. E. Moore
(d) Some other

PART-C: Define any two of the following in one or two lines.
(a) Intellect
(b) Anthropomorphism
(c) Beatific vision
(d) Real is rational and rational is real

PART-D: Name the philosophers who said the following:
  1. Destiny is time prior to the disclosure of its possibilities.
  2. Association is necessary for Man
  3. Philosophy is “No Man’s land”.
  4. The interpretation of the world is enough. Please change it.
  5. The Universe is based on Spirit.
2. Discuss Ibn-Sina’s Theory of Knowledge.

3. Critically evaluate al-Farabi’s Theory of intellect.
OR
Write short notes on al-Farabi’s Theory of Emanation.

4. Bring out briefly the difference between Mutazilism and Asharism.
OR
Is Sufism allowed in Islam?

5. Critically examine al-Ghazali’s attack on the “ETERNITY OF THE WORLD”.

6. “Is religion possible” Iqbal proved it. How?

7. Discuss Shah Wali’s Metaphysics.

8. Write a short note on Sir Sayyed’s Collective Intellects.
OR
Briefly discuss Ali-Shariati’s views of Islam.
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