GST203: TMA2 question and answer
Question 1 : ___ is not a source of knowledge
A. reason
B. faith
C. intuition
D. gossip
Answer to question 1 is D. gossip
Question 2 : ___ branch of philosophy is regrded as theory of knowledge
A. physicalism
B. metaphysics
C. epistemology
D. logic
Answer to question 2 is C. epistemology
Question 3 : ___ and ___ qualify a statement as logical
A. truth and observability
B. contradiction and inferability
C. deniability ad assertability
D. conditionality and proportionality
Answer to question 3 is answer the question yourself
Question 4 : ___ is the logical process exhibited in this statement: All lecturers are homosexuals
A. judgement
B. simple apprehension
C. reasoning
D. intuition
Answer to question 4 is A. judgement
Question 5 : __ is not among the three divisions of formal logic
A. logic of propositions
B. logic of terms
C. logic of assumptions
D. logic of relations
Answer to question 2 is C. logic of assumptions
Question 6 : In logic, another name for statement is ___
A. truth
B. proposition
C. conceptual analysis
D. fact of matter
Answer to question 6 is B. proposition
Question 7 : Deny the following statement: “I am a thief”__
A. It is my father that was once a thief
B. There is no single thief in my family
C. It is you that is a thief
D. No, I am not a thief
Answer to question 7 is D. No, I am not a thief
Question 8 : The saying that unexamined life is not worth living is attributable to ___
A. Aristotle
B. Kukah
C. Manford
D. Socrates
Answer to question 8 is D. Socrates
Question 9 : Another name for ethics is called ____
A. moral philosophy
B. empiricism
C. characater
D. materialism
Answer to question 9 is A. moral philosophy
Question 10 : In standard argument conclusion is infered from__
A. debate
B. formality
C. premises
D. symbolism
Answer to question 10 is C. premises
Question 11 : ___ is regrded as the study of first principles
A. politics
B. metaphysics
C. metalogical deontic logics
D. ethics
Answer to question 11 is B. metaphysics.
Question 12 : Aristotle named his book that deals with nature ___
A. Physics
B. De Anima
C. versmeneutic
D. Oncology
Answer to question 12 is A. physics
Question 13 : Arguments are either deductive or ___
A. imperative
B. argumentative
C. inductive
D. doxastic
Answer to question 13 is C. Inductive
Question 14 : _____ is the concern of ethics
A. what ought to be
B. what is
C. what was
D. what will be
Answer to question 14 is A. what ought to be
Question 15 : Deductive argument move from __ to ___
A. particular to general
B. general to particular
C. from horizontal to perpedincular
D. up to down
Answer to question 15 is B. general to particular
Question 16 : An argument that rests on probability is called ___
A. deductive argument
B. inductive argument
C. empirical argument
D. rational argument
Answer to question 16 is D. rational argument
Question 17 : In logic, when the mind forms the concept of anything we say that ___ has taken place
A. simple apprehension
B. intuition
C. judgement
D. reasoning
Answer to question 17 is D. reasoning
Question 18 : ___ is not a branch of ethics
A. normative ethics
B. causative ethics
C. descriptive ethics
D. meta ethics
Answer to question 18 is D. meta ethics
Question 19 : Man’s ability to think is regarded as ___
A. sensibility
B. reason
C. productivity
D. ethics
Answer to question 19 is B. reason
Question 20 : Draw the conclusion of this argument: All lecturers will go to heaven; Dr Uthman is a lecturer; therefore__
A. Dr Uthman will go to heaven
B. I have seen a lecturer involved in evil
C. Dr Uthman is an exception
D. False, bad lecturers will not go to heaven
Answer to question 20 is A. Dr Uthman will go to heaven
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