FEDERAL PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION
COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION FOR RECRUITMENT TO POSTS
IN BPS – 17 UNDER THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, 2005.
PHILOSOPHY, PAPER – I
TIME ALLOWED: THREE HOURS MAXIMUM MARKS:100
NOTE: Attempt all questions. Give details in relevance to the marks assigned to the Question. Question No. 8 is objective.
- Logic is the Science of valid thought. How can we determine validity?
-
Bring out the difference between truth and validity?
OR
hat is conclusion indicator and premises indicators? -
Al Farabi divides logic into low many kinds/categories?
-
Write short notes on Inductive Leap?
OR
What do you mean by ARGUMENTS IN CONTEXT? -
Discuss the EMOTIVELY NEUTRAL LANGUAGE?
-
What is the form of discourse and its multiple functions?
OR
Critically discuss fallacies of Relevance. -
Bring out the difference between:
(a) Ad IGNORANTIAM, and
(b) Ad VERECUNDIAM
COMPULSORY QUESTION
- PART – I: Write True and False in the Answer Book. Do not reproduce the question:
(1) Logic is Normative Science.
(2) If Premises are true conclusion must be true
(3) Premises are not in declarative form
(4) A proposition by itself is not an argument
(5) Deduction is based on induction.
PART – II: Which of the following are Propositions? Which are not right or wrong.
(6) Come a long
(7) I a man.
(8) Every student studies hard
(9) Truth is better than falsehood
(10) I wish I could go to London
PART – III: Do as directed.
(11) Evaluate the square of opposition in the light of Modern logic.
(12) How do you demarcate a line of difference between:
(a) QUALITY (b) QUANTITY (c) DISTRIBUTION
(13) Is immediate inference based on:
(a) CONVERSION (b) OBVERSION
(14) Draw a diagram for categorical proposition.
(15) What you prefer Deduction or Induction argue with your own examples.
PART – IV: Write only the correct answer in the Answer Book. Do not reproduce the questions.
(16) __________ of a syllogism uniquely determines its form:
(a) Proposition (b) Conclusion (c) Mood (d) Figure (e) Something else
(17) Kitab-al-Abr is written by:
(a) SINA (b) FARABI (c) Khaldun (d) Rushd (e) None of these
(18) C is the symbol of _____________ in logic.
(a) Implication (b) Disjunction (c) Conjection (d) None of these
(19) Conclusions is drawn from __________ in Deduction.
(a) Propositions (b) Premises (c) Simple enumeration (d) Something else
(20) Logic is based on __________.
(a) Language (b) Argument (c) Validity (d) Some other