List of practice Questions

In the Buddhist theory of elements (dharmas), dharmas are the ultimate momentary elements of existence. The number of elements varies in different schools of Buddhism. Of the following alternatives, which pair(s) does/do NOT give us the respective number of dharmas accepted in Sautrāntika and Sarvāstivāda (Vaibhāṣika) schools?
According to the Advaita of Śaṅkara, the individual self (jīva) is:
Consider the following sentence: 'Dhavala is a white cow.' For the Vaiśeṣika, the meaning (artha) of the sentence consists of the following padārthas:
According to the theory advocated by G. Frege in his 'On Sense and Reference', the expression 'the largest prime number' would have \underline{\hspace{2cm}.}
In the Phaedo, Plato's Socrates develops a novel way of understanding the beauty of things. He tells us:
Descartes postulates the evil genius in his Meditations to deny the certainty of which statements?
Husserl's fifth Cartesian Meditation is founded upon the realization that the reduction to my transcendental sphere of ownness:
Soli likes either logic or biology. If Soli likes logic, then he is not a happy person. Neither Soli nor Rupinder likes biology. Which among the following can be concluded from the premises given here?
On the basis of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, we can say the following about virtue:
According to Hume's An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding, the following is/are the principle[s] governing the connection of ideas:
In his Yogasūtra, Patañjali mentions five kinds of afflictions (kleśas). Which one of the following is NOT among the five afflictions?
In Plato's Republic, the virtue of moderation is present:
In Káśmīra Śaivism, Śiva is the only reality, the one without a second. Which among the following is/are the other name[s] for Káśmīra Śaivism?
In 'Democracy', B. R. Ambedkar lays out certain fundamental assumptions about his conception of democracy. They include:
Marx introduces the concept of 'commodity fetishism' in Capital. Which one of the following is a correct description of the concept?
W. V. O. Quine famously writes in 'Two Dogmas of Empiricism':
Comparing the thoughts of Heraclitus and Parmenides, we can say that:
According to Heidegger's Being and Time, the ontological difference is:
According to Swami Vivekananda, 'Universal Religion' would consist in recognising that there are different ways of approaching the religious object. The watch-word for universal religion is \underline{\hspace{2cm}.}
In his 'The Concept of the Absolute and Its Alternative Forms', K. C. Bhattacharyya says, "… consciousness is of three kinds – knowing, feeling and willing…" Which one of the following is the 'absolute' of 'knowing'?
Which one of the following is NOT considered a pramana by the Prabhakara Mimamsaka?
Which one of the following is the manifestation of the Absolute Spirit in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit?
The Carvaka system accepts the following purusharthas:
In Taittiriya Upanishad there is a discussion of five sheaths (pancha–kosa) in which the individual self is encased. Which one is the sheath (kosa) of knowledge and intelligence?
"I told you the truth," I say yet again, "Memory's truth, because memory has its own special kind. It selects, eliminates, alters, exaggerates, minimizes, glorifies, and vilifies also; but in the end it creates its own reality, its heterogeneous but usually coherent versions of events; and no sane human being ever trusts someone else's version more than his own."
What are the different ways in which 'truth' can be understood from the passage?