Department Of Education

Region IV-A (CALABARZON)

Division of Cavite

NAIC NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

Halang, Naic, Cavite

1st QUARTER EXAMINATION

2nd SEMESTER SY 2018-2019
INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY

NAME: _________________________ DATE : ____________________

SECTION: ______________________ SCORE: ____________________

I. MULTIPLE CHOICE
Direction: Choose the letter of the correct answer. Write it on the spaces provided before
each number.

1. It is considered as whatever is it is; and whatever is not is not; everything is what

it is. Everything is its own being , and not being is not being.
A. Principle of Excluded Middle C. Principle of Sufficient Reason
B. Principle of Identity D. Principle of Non Contradiction
2. It is impossible for a thing to be and not to be at the same time, and at the same
respect.
A. Principle of Excluded Middle C. Principle of Sufficient Reason
B. Principle of Identity D. Principle of Non Contradiction

3. A thing is either is or is not; everything must be either be or not be or between

being and not being, there is no middle ground possibility.
A. Principle of Excluded Middle C. Principle of Sufficient Reason
B. Principle of Identity D. Principle of Non Contradiction

4. Nothing exists without a sufficient reason for its being and existence.
A. Principle of Excluded Middle C. Principle of Sufficient Reason
B. Principle of Identity D. Principle of Non Contradiction

5. Defined as the science by natural light of reason studies the first causes or
highest principles of all things.
A. Philo C. Philosophy
B. Holistic Perspective D. Partial Perspective

6. A genuine sympathy and an understanding of all the most diverse points of view.
A. Philo C. Philosophy
B. Holistic Perspective D. Partial Perspective

7. A narrow provincialism of mind, limited to the ideas and outlook of a single party
or single age

A. Philo C. Philosophy
B. Holistic Perspective D. Partial Perspective

8. It is an extension of a fundamental and a necessary drive in every human being

to know what is real.
A. Ethics B. Epistemology C. Logic D. Metaphysics
9. It is the science of the beautiful in its various manifestations.
A. Aesthetics B. Ethics C. Logic D. Metaphysics
10. It is not interested on what we know regarding certain subjects. Its concern,
rather, is the truth or validity of our arguments regarding such objects.
A. Aesthetics B. Ethics C. Logic D. Metaphysics

11. Deals with nature, sources, limitations and validity of knowledge.

A. Ethics B. Epistemology C. Logic D. Metaphysics

12. A branch of philosophy that explore the nature of moral virtue and evaluate
human actions.

A. Ethics B. Epistemology C. Logic D. Metaphysics

13. It is defined as the conviction that to some significant degree, philosophical

problems , puzzles and errors are rooted in language and can be solved or
avoided by a sound understanding of language and careful attention to its
workings.
A. Analytic Tradition B. Fallacy C. Post Modernism D. Existentialism
14. As the name for rather diffuse family of ideas or trends that tends to respect,
aims or supersedes modernity.
A. Analytic Tradition B. Fallacy C. Post Modernism D. Existentialism

15. One’s search for truth might be based on one’s attitude or outlook.

A. Analytic Tradition B. Fallacy C. Post Modernism D. Existentialism

16. This focuses on careful inspection of phenomena or appearances, defined as any

object of conscious experience.

A. Analytic Tradition B. Fallacy C. Phenomenology D. Existentialism

17. It is to think or express oneself in philosophical manner. It considers or discusses
matter from a philosophical standpoint.
A. Fallacy B. Philosophizing C. Phenomenology D. Existentialism
18. It is considered as the defect in an argument other than it’s having false
premises.

A. Fallacy B. Philosophizing C. Phenomenology D. Existentialism

19. A specific kind of appeal to emotion in which someone tries to win support for
an argument or idea by exploiting his or her opponents feelings of pity.

A. Appeal to Pity B. Appeal to ignorance C. Equivocation D. Composition

20. Whatever has not been proved false must be true and vice versa

A. Appeal to Pity B. Appeal to ignorance C. Equivocation D. Composition

21. This is a logical chain of reasoning of a term or a word several times but giving
the particular word a different meaning each time.

A. Appeal to Pity B. Appeal to ignorance C. Equivocation D. Composition

22. This infers that something is true of the whole from the fact that it is true of
some part of the whole.

A. Appeal to Pity B. Appeal to ignorance C. Equivocation D. Composition

23. One reasons logically that something true of a thing must also be true of all or
some of its parts.
A. Against the person B. Division C. Appeal to force D. Appeal to force
24. This fallacy attempts to link the validity of a premise to a characteristic or belief
of the persons advocating the premise

A. Against the person B. Division C. Appeal to force D. Appeal to force

25. An argument where force, coercion or the threat of force is given as a

justification for a conclusion

A. Against the person B. Division C. Appeal to force D. Appeal to force

26. An argument that appeals or exploits people vanities desire for esteem and
anchoring on popularity

A. Against the person B. Division C. Appeal to force D. Appeal to force

27. Since that event followed this one that event must have been caused by this one
this fallacy is also referred to as coincidental correlation or correlation no
causation

A. Against the person B. Division C. False Cause D. Appeal to force

28. One commits errors if one reaches an inductive generalizations based on

insufficient evidence. The fallacy is commonly based on a broad conclusion upon
the statistics of a survey of a small group that fails to sufficiently represent the
whole population.

A. Against the person B. False Cause C. Hasty Generalization D. Appeal to force

29. This is a type of fallacy in which the proposition to be proven is assumed

implicitly or explicitly in the premise.

A. Begging the question B. False cause C. Appeal to force D. Division

30. It can be a belief or judgement that rests on grounds insufficient to produce

complete certainty.

A. Critical Thinking B. Philo C. Opinion D. Logic

31. It contains in the teachings of its founder, Siddharta Gautama or the Buddha.
Out of the life experience and teaching of highborn Prince Gautama of the Sakya
clan in the kingdom Magadha, who live form 560 to 477 B.C.
A. Buddhism B. Hinduism C. Dharma D. Opinion
32. Human beings have a dual nature one is the spiritual and immortal essence the
other is empirical life and character.
A. Buddhism B. Hinduism C. Transmigration D. Opinion
33. It is a doctrine that adheres to the belief that a persons soul pass into some
creature, human or animal.
A. Buddhism B. Hinduism C. Transmigration D. Opinion
34. A simple presentation of gospel of inner cultivation of right spiritual attitudes
coupled with a self imposed discipline whereby bodily desires would be
channeled in the right directions.

A. Buddhism B. Hinduism C. Transmigration D. Opinion

35. “There is no other way to find who we are than by finding ourselves the divine
image we have to struggle to regain spontaneous and vital awareness of our own
spirituality”.

A. Confucius B. Thomas Merton C. Aristotle D. Socrates

36. The state in which one is absolutely free from all forms of bondage and
attachment it means to overcome and remove cause of sufferings.
A. Natural Evil B. Moral Evil C. Nirvana D. Reincarnation
37. Everything in this life is a consequence of actions performed in previous
existence

A. Natural Evil B. Moral Evil C. Nirvana D. Reincarnation

38. Which arises with virtual inevitability from the inherent imperfections of the
universe as created and dependent order

A. Natural Evil B. Moral Evil C. Nirvana D. Reincarnation

39. Pertains to certain imperfections that are inevitable in a created and dependent
universe and thus inevitable imperfections are the source of many or all the
other evils that occur in it

A. Natural Evil B. Moral Evil C. Nirvana D. Reincarnation

40. Humans are superior and central to the universe

A. Anthropocentric model.
B. Nirvana
C. Reincarnation
D. Ecocentric Model

41. The ecological or relational integrity of the humans provides meaning of our
morals and values

A. Anthropocentric model.
B. Nirvana
C. Reincarnation
D. Ecocentric Model

42. The controlling attitude of humankind is extended to nature when in fact

humanity is part of nature

A. Environment B. Deep Ecology C. Ecofeminism D. Social Ecology

43. Destroying nature is a refection wherein few people over power others while
exploiting the environment for profit and self interest.
A. Environment B. Deep Ecology C. Ecofeminism D. Social Ecology
44. The ecological crisis is a consequence of male dominance, whatever is superior is
entitled to whatever is inferior.

A. Environment B. Deep Ecology C. Ecofeminism D. Social Ecology

45. Employed the tem boundless to convey the further thought that nature is
indeterminate boundless in the sense that no boundaries between warm and
cold or the moist and dry regions are originally present within it.

A. Anaximander B. Pytagoras C. Immanuel Kant D. Herbert Marcuse

46. Described the universe as living embodiment of nature’s order, harmony, and
beauty. He sees our relationship with the universe involving love of other living
things(biophillia) and love of other living beings(cosmophillia)

A. Anaximander B. Pytagoras C. Immanuel Kant D. Herbert Marcuse

47. We must ignore any practical motives or inclinations that we have instead
contemplate the object without being distracted by our desires

A. Anaximander B. Pytagoras C. Immanuel Kant D. Herbert Marcuse

48. Humanity had dominated nature. There can only be change if we will change our
attitudes towards our perception of the environment

A. Anaximander B. Pytagoras C. Immanuel Kant D. Herbert Marcuse

49. As a human being we do not have only rights but duties. WE are not only citizens
of the community but how we react to this community and in our reaction to it,
change it.

A. Anaximander B. Pytagoras C. Immanuel Kant D. Herbert Marcuse

50. Proposed a new society that should encourage the emergence of a new human
being that will foster prudence and moderation or frugality toward environment.

A. Anaximander B. George Mead C. Immanuel Kant D. Herbert Marcuse

51. “Human beings have the unique power to change themselves and things for the
better”.

A. Aristotle B. Anaximander C. Immanuel Kant D. Thomas Aquinas

52. It is the careful, reflective, rational, and systematic approach to questions of very
general interest. It means understanding of philosophy and refraining from
merely giving claims but thought, one reasons through argumentations.

A. Critical Thinking B. Opinion C. Logic D. Metaphysics

53. It is considered as the center of analysis and construction of arguments.

A. Critical Thinking B. Opinion C. Logic D. Metaphysics

54. It is the distinguishing of facts and opinions or personal feelings. In making

rational choices, first we suspend beliefs and judgement until all facts have been
gathered and considered.
 A. Critical Thinking B. Opinion C. Logic D. Metaphysics

55. It is based from observations in order to make generalizations

A. Inductive reasoning B. Logic C. Deductive Reasoning D. Opinion
56. It draws conclusions from usually one broad judgement or definition and one
more specific, assertion, often an inference.

A. Inductive reasoning B. Logic C. Deductive Reasoning D. Opinion

57. It is important to find a general law according to the particular facts can be
understood or judged.
A. Deduction B. Empiricism C. Logic D. Induction
58. It is considered the view that knowledge can be attained only through sense
experience.

A. Deduction B. Empiricism C. Logic D. Induction

59. The particular things seen, heard and touched are more important. They believe
that general ideas are formed from the examination of particular facts.
A. Deduction B. Empiricism C. Logic D. Induction

60. A French philosopher emphasizes the importance of free individual choice,

regardless of the power of other people to influence and coerce our belief and
decisions.

A. Aristotle B. Socrates C. Sartre D. Confucius

DUM SPIRO SPERO

“While I breathed, I hope”

Prepared by: Noted by:

Nino Abel B. Matreo Lorna B. Moncada Mercy V. de Borja

Teacher II MT I/Subject Group Head Principal IV