PALAWAN STATE UNIVERSITY

San Rafael Campus

Puerto Princesa City
Philo 4: Logic and Ethics
Mid-Term Examination
1st Semester S.Y. 2016-2017
Name: ___________________________________
Program/Year Level: _______________________

Date: ____________________
Score: ___________________

Part 1. Multiple choice. Choose the best answer from the choices given. Encircle the letter
that corresponds to your answer.
1. He is the founder of symbolic logic.
a. Plato

b. George Boole

c. Nyaya

d. Aristotle

2. Which of the following is a mediate idea/concept?

a. pen

b. happiness

c. paper

d. book

3. Which of the following is a concrete idea/concept?

a. pen

b. happiness

c. fear

d. joy

4. He is a student of Plato and the mentor of Alexander the Great?

a. Aristotle

b. George Boole

c. Nyaya

d. Zeno

5. Which of the following is a collective idea/concept?

a. choir

b. girl

c. student

d. singer

6. Which of the following is a privative idea/concept?

a. tall and dark

b. rich and poor

c. sight and blindness d. parent-child

7. Which of the following is a equivocal idea/concept?

a. student

b. bark

c. teacher

d. both a and b

8. When a person draws a picture of an idea, what kind of definition is it?

a. Denotative

b. Ostensive

c. Illustrative

d. Stipulative

9. When a person points out a bird, what kind of definition is it?

a. Denotative

b. Ostensive

c. Illustrative

d. Stipulative

10. Which of the following is an etymological definition?

a. Monalisa is painted by Leonardo de Vinci
b. Square is a figure with four interior right angles
c. Hydrophobia means fear of water from the greek word hyros and phobos.
d. Netizens refer to the users of the internet.
11. Monalisa is painted by Leonardo de Vinci. This what kind of definition?
a. Causative

b. Distinctive

c. Descriptive

d. Persuasive

12. Square is a figure with four interior right angles. This what kind of definition?
a. Theoritical

b. Distinctive

c. Lexical

d. Persuasive

c. genus

d. definiendum

13. What do you call the term to be define?

a. denontata

b. definiens

14. Which of the following is an example of a good definition?

a. Man is a human being
b. Man is a rational animal
c. Man is a two legged animal.
d. Man is something with power over animals.
15. Validity is a function of_______?
a. content

b. form

c. premises

d. conclusion

16. All dogs are insects. All insects are aliens. Therefore, all dogs are aliens?
a. factually correct

b. sound

c. valid

d. both b and c

17. All cats are mammals. All dogs are mammals. Therefore, all cats are dogs.
a. factually correct

b. sound

c. valid

d. both b and c

18. Which of the following is a statement?

a. Are you hungry?

b. Shut the door,please c. I am hungry

d. Delicious!

19. Besides, therefore, what other words marked a conclusion of an argument?

a. because

b. since

c. thus

d. for

20. Which of the following is also called intellection?

a. Inference

b. Argument

c. Predication

d. Abstraction

21. What is the relation of the property of a term extension and intension?
a. directly proportional b. inversely proportional c. not proportional d. no relation
22. Which of the following is not part of an idea of a dog?

a. mans best friend

b. has paws

c. has two legs

d. it barks

23. A mental phase that answers the question: what is it.

a. Apprehension

b. Reasoning

c. Judgment

d. Abstraction

c.flag

d. both b and c

24. Which of the following is a natural sign?

a. yawning

b. red stop light

25. Which of the following is a conventional sign?

a. yawning

b. red stop light

c. dark/heavy clouds d. both b and c

Part 2. Matching Type .Match column A with column B. Write the letter of the answer
corresponding to the question on the blank space provided before each number.
Column A

Column B

__________26. Sophia

A. Word

__________27. Falsafa

B. Wonder

__________28. Philos

C. Wisdom

__________29. Hikmah

D. Why

__________30. Thauma

E. Theory

__________31. Zhe Xue

F. Faith

__________32. Darshana

G. Practice

__________33. Theoria

H. Vision

__________34. Praxis

I. Love

__________35. Logos

J. Aesthetics

Part 3 : True Or False. Write T if the statements are TRUE and F which are NOT TRUE.
Write your answer on the space provided.
_____36. In any valid argument, the conclusion is true.
_____37. In any factually argument, the conclusion is true.
_____38. Every sound argument is valid.
_____39. Every factually argument is sound.
_____40. If an argument is valid and has at least one false premise then its conclusion must
be false.
_____41. In any valid argument, if the premises are all true, then the conclusion is also true.
_____42. Every sound argument has a true conclusion.
_____43. Every valid argument is sound.
_____44. Every sound argument is factually correct.
_____45. An argument is invalid if it admits a counter-example.

Part 4. Complete the Table. Write the letter of your answer on the space provided.
PHASES

Apprehension

Judgment

49. ______________

Mental Process
Mental Product
External
Manifestation
Possible Answers:

46. _____________ 47. _______________Inference

Idea
48. _______________Argument
Terms
Propositions
50. ______________

A. Abstraction

D. Sensation

G. Reasoning

B. Imagination

E. Enunciation

H. Phantasm

C. Predication

F. Verbalization

I. Arguments

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Prepared by:
CHRISTIAN ROBERT B. NALICA