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

UNIPORT GES 102 Past Questions and Answers and Practice Questions for Uniport GES 102 (Introduction to Logic and Philosophy) Exams Part II – 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

56. With the emergence of the Sophists and Socrates, Greek Philosophy shifted from cosmology and ontology to the development of

(a) Man and the world

(b) Society and reality

(c) Man and society

(d) Philosophy and the world

(e) Study of Being

57. The question of “why” and “how” are the major concern of which branches of philosophy?

(a) Metaphysics and Epistemology

(b) Logic and Epistemology

(c) Aesthetics and Metaphysics

(d) Ethics and Metaphysics

(e) Epistemology and Logic

The Philosopher associated with the “tabula rasa” concept was_______________

(a) Rene Descartes

(b) Thales

(c) St. Augustine

(d) John Locke

(e) Thomas Hobbes

58. From the philosophical perspective, morality derives from man’s ______________

(a) Religious nature

(b) Political nature

(c) Economic nature

(d) Social nature

(e) Sexual nature.

59. Conceptualization of human rights in absolute terms is possible only within the sphere of_____________

(a) Politics

(b) Democracy

(c) Philosophy

(d) Law

(e) Science.

60. The contents of human rights was first articulated globally in the year___________

(a) 1947

(b)  1984

(c) 1960

(d) 1919

(e) 1948

61. A misconception of national development equates development with_____________

(a) Statistical growth

(b) Spiritual growth

(c) Structural material growth

(d) Religious growth

(e) Human growth

62. The three famous individuals who stood in complete opposition to the teaching of the Sophists in the Ancient period were________

(a) Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes

(b) Plato, Pythagoras, Zeno

(c) Sophists, Jews, Heraclitus

(d) Socrates, Plato, Aristotle

(e) Plato, Pythagoras, Democritus

63. “Truth is what works”. Logical Positivism is the contemporary philosophical school of thought associated with this expression

(a) True

(b) False

(c) True/ false

(d) None of the above

(e) All of the above

65. Philosophy’s contribution to the concept of national development is mainly on its emphasis on_________

(a)  Population growth

(b) Human/moral development,

(c) Economic development

(d) Political and social development

(e) Infrastructural development

66. _______ are the nonmaterial essences of things in Plato’s philosophy

(a) Particulars

(b) Essence

(c) Ideas

(d) Substances

(e) Predicament

67. ____ is often regarded as the father of modern philosophy

(a) Fredrick Hegel

(b) John Locke

(c) David Hume

(d) Rene Descartes

(e) Francis Minimah

68. The term metaphysics is derived from two Greek words___________

(a) Meta and Logus

(b) Meta and Physika

(c) Meta and Physics

(d) Episteme and Logos

(e) Meta and Logos

69. Whose definition of philosophy as “criticism of criticisms” makes philosophy methodologically relevant to every branch of human endeavor?

(a) Karl Marx

(b) John Dewey

(c) Francis Bacon

(d) Isaac Newton

(e) William James

70. A statement is either true or false which law of thought does this statement express__________

(a) Law of contradiction

(b) Law of identity

(c) Law of excluded middle

(d) All of the above

(e) None of the above

71. A substance for Aristotle is a combination of___________

(a) Matter, form, potentiality & actuality

(b) Matter, form, ideas & potentiality

(c) Body, soul, potentiality & actuality

(d) Substance, matter, potentiality & actuality

(e) Substance, existence, form & matter

72. The description of philosophy as a rational enterprise implies___________

(a) Extreme rationalism

(b) Knowledge of essence

(c) Empirical rationalism

(d) Knowledge of things

(e) Absolute rationalism

73. “The end of a thing is its perfection. Death is the end of life. Therefore, death is the perfection of life”. This is an example of what fallacy?

(a) Equivocation

(b) Circular reason

(c) Amphiboly

(d) Cartesian fallacy

(e) Begging the question

74. Give the Latin equivalent of “I think, therefore I am”

(a) Esse est percipi

(b) Tabula rasa

(c) Cogito ergo sum

(d) Credo ut intelligence

(e) Rationalis et al

75. The following attributes excepts __________ distinguishes natural rights from all other rights

(a) Inviolability

(b) Immutability

(c) Legality

(d) Inalienability

(e) Morality

76. The role of philosophy in Human Rights discourse is basically _________

(a) To punish those that abuses them

(b) To justify through reason the desirability of them

(c) To study the abuse of it

(d) To console those who suffer the abuse of them

(e) To compensate those who respect them

77. A situation in which premises are affirmed, but the conclusion is negated is called _________

(a) Argument

(b) Inference

(c) Universality

(d) Dilemma

(e) Counter example

78. A proposition can be valid or invalid

(a) True

(b) False

(c) True/False

(d) all of the above

(e) None of the above

79. The major distinguishing characteristics of modern philosophy is its emphasis on________

(a) Scientific method

(b) Understanding man

(c) A Good understanding of God

(d) Love of Humanity

(e) Rational Method of inquiry

80. A proposition in which the meaning of the predicate is not contained in the subject is called___________

(a) Synthetic

(b) Analytic

(c) A posteriori

(d) A priori

(e) Syndicative

81. A justified true belief is equivalent to_________

(a) Fact

(b) Knowledge

(c) Opinion

(d) Faith

(e) Rumor

82. Empiricism as a school of thought in the modern period is consistent with__________

(a) Sense expirence

(b) Innate ideas

(c) Realism

(d) Materialism

(e) Idealism

83. 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

84. Another name for a premise is___________

(a) Logic

(b) Affirmation

(c) Truth

(d) Grounds

(e) Thoughts

85. According to Aristotle, metaphysics before Socrates was erroneous because it concieved reality in terms of ________

(a) Ideal form

(b) Material principles

(c) Substances

(d) The one

(e) Universals

86. Man is entitled to the fundamental human rights by virtue of being___________

(a) A child

(b) A social being

(c) A political animal

(d) A rational being

(e) Religious being

87. The earliest logician was:____________

(a) Thales

(b) Plato

(c) Aristotle

(d) Socrates

(e) Descartes

88. ______ moves from general to particular proposition

(a) Arguments

(b) Inductive argument

(c) Deductive argument

(d) Inference

(e) None of the above

89. Who among the following postulated Air as the primary substance or reality?

(a) Thales

(b) Epicurus

(c) Anaximenes

(d) Democritus

(e) Anaximader

90. Neither John Dewey nor Charles Pierce is the father of pragmatism

(a) True

(b) False

(c) Unknown

(d) all of the above

91. According to________economic rights should constitute the content of human rights.

(a) Liberal

(b) Human right activist

 (c) The universal declaration of rights

(d) Marxist

(e) Sociologists

92. Prior to the philosophical reflections of the Milesians, the classical Greek minds had their source in __________

(a) Polity

(b) Political

(c) Mythology

(d) Society

(e) Oracle

93. __________ defined philosophy as criticism of criticisms

(a) William James

(b) John Locke

(c) Karl Marx

(d) John Dewey

(e) Francis Becon

94. The process of deriving one statement on the basis of others is ____________

(a) Consistency

(b) Logic

(c) Inference

(d) Thinking

(e) Epistemology

95. The cosmological argument for the existence of God is sometimes called____________

(a) Cause to effect argument or Apriori argument

(b) Effect to cause argument or Aposteriori argument

(c) Apriori argument

(d) Ontological argument

(e) Cosmological argument

96. _________ is the form of government mostly accepted within the context of human right philosophy

(a) Liberia socialism

(b) Marxian communism

(c) Totalitarism

(d) Democracy

(e) Platonism

97. The evaluation of validity/soundness of an argument is applicable to ____________

(a) Deduction

(b) Induction

(c) Implication

(d) Conjunction

(e) Argument

98. All the charters on human rights agree that _________is a fundamental human right

(a) Right to free housing

(b) Right to vote and be voted for

(c) Right to life

(d) Right to health and education

(e) Right to speech

99. The principle of Logic that maintains that something cannot be said to be and at the same time said not to be is known as_____

(a) The doctrine of being

(b) The doctrine of being or not-being

(c) The principle of non-contradiction

(d) The principle of being

100. The Ancient dictum “you cannot step twice into the same river” is credited to ________

(a) Aristotle

(b) Plato

(c) Parmenides

(d) Heraclitus

(e) Protagoras

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