UNIPORT GES 102 Past Questions and Answers and Practice Questions for Uniport GES 102 (Introduction to Logic and Philosophy) Exams – This article comprises of past questions and possible questions that would prepare you towards this forth coming examination. These questions are gotten from all the topics covered in the GES 102 Textbooks.

How is Uniport GES Exam

GES examination is a computer based examination in the University of Port Harcourt. After writing the exam, the score will pop up immediately displaying your score over 50 and over 70. The remaining 30 marks will come from your GES Work Book which you’ve submitted.

How to Pass very well in any GES Examination

To do extremely well in GES examination, you must be prepared. You got to cover the textbook, answer the workbook questions again and practice past questions and answers to enable you get an idea on how the questions will look like and how you can tackle it. Also, it will guide to learn how to manage the little time that will be allocated to you during the exam. Most importantly, it will help you to access yourself and correct yourself for a better score.

How many marks do they give in GES workbook

Though the mark fluctuates sometimes, but last session, 25 marks were given to every student that submitted his or her GES workbook. So, whatever you score on the exam day will be added to the 25 marks given you your real score.

Past Questions and Answers and Practice questions for Uniport GES 102

These questions are not guaranteed that it must come out on your exam day, you can still read your textbook, past questions, then practice with this one to enable you see miscellaneous questions you would see on the exam day.

GES 102 Introduction to Logic & Philosophy

1. The etymological definition of philosophy emphasizes its nature as__________

• Abstract

(b) Critical

(c) Theoretical

(d) An activity

(e) Logical

2. Existentialism stresses the priority of _________

(a) The ideal over the actual

(b) Form over matter

(c) The one over many

(d) Existence over essence

(e) Essence over existence

3. Socrates died by _________

(a) Shooting himself

(b) Hanging himself

(c) Drinking hemlock

(d) Buring himself

(e) Committing suicide

4. When we reason, we carry out one of the following_________

(a) We manufacture facts

(b) We distill facts

(c) We draw inference

(d) We necessarily apprehend the truth

(e) None of the above

5. Metaphysically, plato’s idealism is opposed to Aristotle’s __________

(a) Actialism

(b) Concretism

(c) Physucalism

(d) Rationalism

(e) Materialism

6. Ethical principles differ from ordinary physical laws in that they are_________

(a) Laws of nature

(b) Laws of conscience

(c) Man-made laws

(d) Divine laws

(e) Societal laws

7. The history of the Ancient period is divided into__________

(a) Pre-socratic & Medieval

(b) Socratic & Milesians

(c) Modern & Contemporary

(d) Socratic & Classical

(e) Pre-socratic & Socratic

8. The fallacy involved in begging the question is called in Latin as_________

(a) Non Sepuitur

(b)Ignoratio Elenchi

(c) petitio Principii

(d) Argumentum Adhominem.

9. The famous existentialist thinker who pronounced God is dead was ___________

(a) Immanuel Kant

(b) Karl Marx

(c) Fredrick Nietzsche

(d) Descartes

(e) Charles Darwin

(f) David Hume.

10. Every proposition in Logic has_______

(a) Answer

(b) Truth value

(c) Solution

(d) Reason

(e) Solution

11. Human right is equivalent to which of these?

(a) Divine right

(b) Natural right

(c) Social right

(d) Legal right

(e) Jurial right.

12. One who studies the nature of the universe, its origin and purpose is called an epistemologist____________

(a) True/False

(b) True

(c) False

(d) None of the above

(e) All of the above

13. Philosophy is defined as logical clarification of thought by__________

(a) Vittganstin

(b) Wittgenstan

(c) Wittgenstein

(d) Gensteinvig

(e) Fittgenstein.

14. The contemporary philosophical movement that sees the problem of language as the main task of philosophy is________

(a) Literary movement

(b) Meta-linguistic movement

(c) Analytic philosophy

(d) Logical positivism

(e) Pragmatism

15. Another name for the modern period is ____________

(a) Dark age

(b) Classical period

(c) Medieval period

(d) Age of reason

(e) Modern period

16. One of the major characteristics of the medieval period of philosophy was ________

(a) Faith preceeded reason

(b) Reason preceeded faith

(c) Faith alone mattered

(d) Reason alone mattered

(e) Reason was the servant of faith

17    The “unexamined use is not worth living” is associated with_____

(a) Plato

(b) Aristotle

(c) Rene Descartes

(d) Immanuel Kant

(e) Socrates

18        The__________ argue agianst innate ideas

(a) Idealist

(b) Empiricists

(c) Kant

(d) Rationalists

(e) Existentialist

19        In the Ancient period, the problem of permanence and change was a controversy between the following philosophers __________

(a) Parmanides & Craytlus

(b) Heraclitus & Zeno

(c) Parmanides & Socrates

(d) Parmanides & Heraclitus

(e) Pythagoras & Parmanides

20. The ontogological argument for the existence of God is sometimes called __________

(a) Aposteriori argument

(b) Cause to effect argument or Apriori argument

(c) Effect to cause argument or Aposteriori argument

(d) Apriori argument

(e) Cosmological argument

21        P ב P expresses which law of thought?

(a) Concurrence

(b) Identity

(c) Contradiction

(d) Excluded middle

(e) Physical law.

22        Parmenides philosophy is a reaction to philosophy of ___________

(a) Thales

(b) Socrates

(c) Democritus

(d) Zero

(e) Heraclitus

23        For a group of philosophers, atoms constituted all reality__________

(a) Plato and the atomists

(b) Heraditus and the atomists

(c) Socrates and the atomists

(d) Democritus and the atomists

(e) Aristotle and the atomists.

24        The famous Sophists in the ancient period who saw knowledge as relative or subjective were__________

(a) Protagoras, Gorgias and Parmanides

(b) Pythagoras, Plato and Thrasmaychus

(c) Socrates, Plato and Aristotle

(d) Gorgias, Thrasmaychus and Protagoras

(e) Protagoras, Gorgias and Pythagoras

25        The term “cogito ergo sum” is associated with which philosopher?

(a) Rene Descartes

(b) John Locke

(c) Immanuel Kant

(d) Thomas Hobbes

(e) Francis Minimah

26        Thomas Aquinas and Baruch Spinoza belong to which periods in the history of philosophy?

(a) Ancient and medieval

(b) Medieval and contemporary

(c) Ancient and modern

(d) Contemporary and modern

(e) Medieval and modern

27        The dictum “man is the measure of all things” is associated with ____________

(a) Pythagoras

(b) Heraclitus

(c) Protagoras

(d) Plato

(e) Aristotle

28        Another name for Aesthetics as a branch of philosophy is __________

(a) Theory of knowledge

(b) Theory of being

(c) The beautiful in things

(d) The science of reasoning

(e) The science of morality

29        The branch of philosophy that deals with human knowledge is called _________

(a) Ethics

(b) Aesthetics

(c) Epistemology

(d) Logic

(e) Metaphysics

30        ___________philosophy was to show the mathematical basis of reality;

(a) Thales

(b) Pythagoras

(c) Epicurus

(d) Democritus

(e) Socrates

31        One of the major reasons why a man should be moral is because of_________

(a) Natural equality of all

(b) Peace and harmony in the society

(c) Legal punishment

(d) Reality of Hell fire

(e) None of the above

32.  One consequence of pragmatism as a philosophical movement in the contemporary period is ________

(a) It leads to objectivity

(b) It relativizes truth

(c) It produces good man

(d) It helps us to live harmoniously

(e) It helps philosophers to explain the world

33          In a valid argument

(a) Conclusion implies the premises

(b) Conclusion entails the premises

(c) Conclusion necessitates the premises

(d) Premises necessitate the conclusion

(e) Conclusion gives rise to premises

34         Who among the Pre-Socratic philosophers developed the “theory of the Apeiron or the indetrminate boundless”

(a) Anaximander

(b) Anaximenes

(c) Thales

(d) Heraclitus.

(e) Protagora

35        The rightness or wrongness of an action can be determined by the quantity of happiness or pain the action produces is asociated with:

(a) Kantianism

(b) Utilitarianism

(c) Situationism

(d) Formalism

(e) Intuitionism

36.  According to Kant, objective scientific knowledge is achievable if we continue ourselves to the realm of ___________

(a) Noumena

(b) Phenomena

(c) Ideal

(d) Abstract.

(e) Reason

37. The problem that was foremost in the minds of the Milesian philosophers was_____________

(a) The problem of parmanence and change

(b) The problem of appearance and reality

(c) The origin of the world

(d) The characteristics of the world

(e) Moral questions about man and society

38. Which of the following philosophers is the immediate successor of Socrates?

(a) Thales

(b) Anaximander

(c) Sophists

(d) Aristotle

(e) Plato

39. Philosophy is believed to have started in the city of___________

(a) Crete

(b) Alexandra

(c) Crote

(d) Miletus

(e) Rome

40. Scepticism is a philosophical position that denies the posibility of knowledge_____________

(a) True

(b) True / False

(c)  False

(d) None of the above

(e) All of the above

41. The pursuit of phylosophy is the pursuit _______________

(a) Of the love of wisdom

(b) Of knowledge

(c) Of science of wisdom

(d) Of the wise

(e) Of the lover of wisdom.

42. One who studies the nature of the universe, its origins and purpose is called_____________

(a) Epistemologist

(b) Thinker

(c) Metaphysician

(d) Logician

(e) Ethicist

43. The German Philosopher who attempted a synthesis between rationalism and empiricism was_____________

(a) David Hume,

(b) Ludwig witgenstein

(c) Immanuel Kant

(d) Thomas Hobbes

(e) Rene Descartes

44. The philosophical movement that tried to make philosophy scientific in the early 20^th Century was___________

(a) Rationalism

(b) Empiricism

(c) Vienna circle

(d) Idealism

(e) Logical position

45. If an argument is sound, then______________

(a) It cannot be valid

(b) All its statements most be false

(c) Mike is a tree cannot be part of it

(d) Its conclusion most logically ential the premisses

(e) The argument most be sound

46. Which school of thought holds perceptual experience as the primary source of all true knowledge?

(a) Empiricism

(b) Empiricism

(c) Materialism

(d) Pragmatism

(e) Idealism

Using the index of concepts, time or thought system in question 47- 55 choose the odd one among these options.

47. (a) Soren Kierkegaard

(b) Martin Heidegger

(c)  Jean Paul Sartre

(d) Frederick Nietzsche

(e) None of the above

48. (a) Speculative

(b) Critical

(c) Experimental

(d) Analytical

(e) Logical

49. (a) Existentialism

(b) Logical positivism

(c) Rationalism

(d) Analytic philosophy

(e) Pragmatism

50. (a) Why something instead of nothing?

(b) Is there any difference between morally right or wrong actions?

(c) Does God exist?

(d) Is reality essentially spiritual or material?

(e) What is the relationship between mind and matter?

51. (a) Anaximander

(b) Democritus

(c) Anaxmenes

(d) Pythagoras

(e) Socrates

52. (a) Rene Descartes

(b) Baruch Spinoza

(c) Isaac Newton

(d) Gottfried Leibniz

53. (a) Rudolf Carnap

(b) A.J. Ayer

(c) Moritz Schlick

(d) John Locke

(e) Otto Neurath

54. (a) Bertrand Russell

(b) Soren Kierkegaard

(c) Moritz Schlick

(d) George Berkeley

(e) Charles Sanders Pierce

55. (a) Francis Minimah

(b) John Locke

(c) Socrates

(d) Ludwig Wittgenstein

(e) St. Augustine

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UNIPORT GES 102 Past Questions and Answers & Practice Questions for Introduction to Logic and Philosophy Exam