WBCSC 27th SET 2025 31 to 40 Question Answer Discussion

Описание: West Bengal College Service Commission (WBCSC)
27th State Eligibility Test (SET), 2025
Paper: II
Subject: Philosophy
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Question Nos. 31–40
31. The present proposal of Eugenics has reference in:
(A) Plato’s Republic
(B) Aristotle’s Politics
(C) Plato’s Meno
(D) Descartes’ Meditations
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32. Which of the following is not a branch of Applied Ethics proper?
(A) Environmental Ethics
(B) Business Ethics
(C) Professional Ethics
(D) Metaethics
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33. Who is the author of The Ethics of Respect for the Nature?
(A) Tom Regan
(B) Paul W. Taylor
(C) Arne Naess
(D) Aldo Leopold
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34. Who is the proponent of Ecosophy–T?
(A) Paul W. Taylor
(B) Aldo Leopold
(C) Arne Naess
(D) Tom Regan
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35. Logical positivists admit a special type of statement which, though lacking empirical content, is still meaningful by virtue of the meanings of the terms of which it is composed. Identify the statement from the following which does not fall into this category:
(A) Seven books are numerically more than four books
(B) Arsenic is poisonous
(C) A bachelor is an unmarried man
(D) If the sun is shining, then the sun is shining
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36. Read the following statements and identify the wrong assertion/assertions regarding propositions according to early Wittgenstein:
(i) A proposition is a concatenation of names.
(ii) A compound proposition can be divided into elementary propositions.
(iii) An elementary proposition cannot be divided into any further propositions.
(iv) An elementary proposition is composed of names.
Codes:
(A) Only statement (i) is true
(B) Only statements (i) and (ii) are true
(C) Only statements (ii) and (iii) are true
(D) All the above statements are true
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37. Match List–I with List–II and identify the correct match of ideas and their propounders:
List–I (Ideas)
(a) “God is dead”
(b) “Man is condemned to be free”
(c) Dasein
(d) “Leap of faith”
List–II (Propounder)
(i) Jean-Paul Sartre
(ii) Friedrich Nietzsche
(iii) Søren Kierkegaard
(iv) Martin Heidegger
Codes:
(A) (a)–(i), (b)–(ii), (c)–(iii), (d)–(iv)
(B) (a)–(ii), (b)–(i), (c)–(iv), (d)–(iii)
(C) (a)–(iii), (b)–(i), (c)–(ii), (d)–(iv)
(D) (a)–(i), (b)–(ii), (c)–(iv), (d)–(iii)
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38. Edmund Husserl attempted to establish philosophy as a “rigorous science.” In this venture:
(i) Husserl attempted to lay bare the fundamental traits of consciousness and its connection to the world.
(ii) He thought that such discovery can give a foundational basis for the rest of the sciences.
(iii) He thought that a correct understanding of consciousness would free phenomenology from the flaws of psychologism as well as naturalism.
Codes:
(A) Only (i) is true
(B) Only (i) and (ii) are true
(C) All the above are true
(D) Only (i) and (iii) are true
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39. For Heidegger, technology is not merely a tool but a mode of revealing. By “Enframing” (Gestell) he means:
(i) It imparts to the human being her/his due worth.
(ii) It views humans as resources that can be utilized and exploited, thereby degrading understanding.
(iii) Technology appreciates human understanding.
Codes:
(A) Only (iii) is true
(B) Only (ii) is true
(C) Only (i) is true
(D) Both (i) and (iii) are true
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40. To supplant the pretence of “systematic philosophy,” Richard Rorty proposed the need for the edification of philosophy. He finds such an attempt in which of the following sets of philosophers?
(A) Hegel and Kant
(B) Russell and Moore
(C) Descartes, Spinoza and Leibniz
(D) Heidegger, Wittgenstein and Dewey
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Answer Key
WBSET 2025 | Philosophy (Paper–II) | Questions 31–40
Question No. Correct Answer
31 (A)
32 (D)
33 (B)
34 (C)
35 (B)
36 (D)
37 (B)
38 (C)
39 (B)
40 (D)
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