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Modern Western Philosophy: Rationalism - Descartes
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Modern Western Philosophy: Rationalism - Descartes
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1. The concept of innate ideas is put forward by:
2. In order to escape …………………, Descartes has introduced the idea of God
3. Descartes reasons that the very fact that he is thinking shows that ……
4. Which one of the following statements is entitled by Descartes’ cogito ergo sum?
5. Descartes advocates …………..by admitting mind and matter as two substances
6. Descartes method is
7. …………. Admits innumerable monads or spiritual atoms
8. For Descartes, cogito ergo sum is
9. Which among is NOT correct regarding monads
10. Descartes recognizes mind and matter as ……. substances which are created by God.
11. A monad is explained as:
12. Leibnitz philosophy is
13. Which one of the following types of substances is NOT admitted by Descartes?
14. Which of the following do Cartesian dualists reject?
15. What is true of Spinoza’s parallelism?
16. The view that one may consider God both as Naturanaturans and Natruanaturata is maintained by:
17. Which one of the following statements is NOT supported by Descartes?
18. There can only one substance which is causasui (cause of itself) and this single substance must be identified with the universe as a whole. This unique all inclusive totality is therefore God or Nature - Whose statement is this?
19. The position of psycho physical parallelism is advocated by
20. Spinoza equates substance with ------- and --------
21. Descartes claims God as the …………..substance, and mind and matter as ……… substance.
22. According to which theory mind and body are opposed to each other and consequently cannot interact upon each other; but still there is a correspondence between the two; and this correspondence is brought about by God?
23. By ‘mode’ Spinoza means that which
24. By ………….. Spinoza understands that which is in itself and which is conceived by means of itself.
25. The attribute of mind is ……. and the attribute of matter is ….