Cameroon GCE advanced level June 2025 philosophy 1

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Cameroon GCE advanced level June 2025 philosophy 1

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Which branch of philosophy investigates reality as distinct from the illusory?A Metaphysics.
B Ethics.

C Epistemology.

D Logic.
What kind of evidence do philosophers advance for their claims?A Empirical evidence.
B Conceptual evidence.

C Conceptual evidence confirmed or disconfirmed by empirical data.

D Speculations
The defining features of deductive inference are:A Necessary conclusion / formed a priori.
B Necessary conclusion / formed a posteriori.

C Probable conclusion / formed a priori.

D Probable conclusion / formed a posteriori.
“Since the same thing has already been predicated of the universal, it follows that the sense of the particular is already contained in the universal”. This describes which inference and validated by which law of thought?A Subalternation / Identity
B Opposition / Excluded middle

C Contradiction / Non-contradiction

D Contrariety / Sufficient Reason
Determine if the following inference is valid in the Aristotelian system. All mermaids are beautiful creatures. So it is false that no mermaids are beautiful creatures.A Invalid Contrariety.
B Invalid Contradiction.

C Valid subalternation.

D Valid Contrariety.
Is the inference: “No men are illiterate persons. It follows that no literate persons are non-men” valid or not? Name the inference rule.A Valid Contraposition.
B Illicit Contraposition.

C Valid Obversion.

D Illicit Obversion.
“No farmers are city-dwellers. Hence, no city-dweller is a talented machete-user because only talented machete-users are farmers”. Determine the validity of this syllogism in the traditional system. Name the fallacy if any.A Valid.
B Invalid. Illicit major.

C Invalid. Illicit minor.

D Invalid. Exclusive premises.
The pure Venn diagram technique operates within which system for interpreting categorical statements?A Vennian.
B Aristotelian.

C Boolean.

D Mathematical.
Illicit major fallacy arises because the conclusion:A Contains more information than the premise.
B Contains less information than the premise.

C Distributes both terms.

D Distributes the major term.
“Not all-night calls are welcome, but those from family are” is:A A first order enthymeme.
B A third order enthymeme.

C A second order enthymeme.

D An enthymeme.
A hypothetical syllogism which affirms the consequent is fallacious because:A The antecedent is the only cause.
B The antecedent is necessary.

C Antecedent is both necessary and sufficient.

D The consequent could arise from other possible causes.
“When teething begins, babies usually have fever. So, the growing teeth causes fever” is a false cause argument because:A There is no correlation between teething and fever.
B Many people believe so.

C The correlation between fever and teething is not coincidental.

D It is fallacious reasoning.

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“You won’t graduate unless you pass Philosophy” interpreted in terms of the hypothetical as:A If you don’t pass philosophy, you will graduate.
B If you graduate then you will pass philosophy.

C If you don’t pass philosophy then you won’t graduate.

D If you won’t graduate, then you don’t pass philosophy.
The propositional schema “Either A and B or if C then D” is:A A conjunctive proposition.
B A disjunctive proposition.

C A hypothetical proposition.

D A bi-conditional proposition.
To say a statement is valid means that:A Some assignments of truth-values to its variables are true.
B Its conclusion is always true.

C It is true for all assignments of truth-values to its variables.

D It is a true statement
The predicate calculus schema for “Every horse is white” where Px = x is a horse and Wx = x is white is:A For all x Px and Wx
B There is an x such that if Px then Wx

C There is no x such that Px and Wx

D For all x if Px then Wx
By qualifying the early thinkers as ‘Primitive scientists’ it means that they:A initiated the explanation of events in the universe in terms of nature of things themselves.
B differed from the methodological mode of explanation.

C Provided the fundamental explanation of the basic stuff of the universe.

D They are not scientific in their approaches.
Anaximenes’ explanation of the universe could be described as:A Cosmological.
B Metaphysical.

C Scientific.

D Mathematical.
According to Pythagoras, what aptitudes do the Merchants, Competitors and Spectators manifest when attending the Olympic games respectively?A Gain, fame and thinking.
B Thinking, gain and fame.

C Fame, thinking and gain.

D Fame, gain and thinking.
Parmenides’ concept of being can be aptly characterised by the following:A Unoriginated, finite and spherical.
B Infinite, specific and cyclical.

C Finite, spherical and specific.

D Changeless, uncreated and infinite.
Zeno in his paradoxes demonstrates the fact that:A Being does not exist.
B Motion is illusory.

C Time and space do not exist as entities.

D The human mind cannot grasp reality.
The assertion that : “Nothing exist[…]” depicts clearly:A Thrasymachus’ morality.
B Protagoras’ relativism.

C Gorgias’ nihilism.

D Socrates’ epistemology.
In Plato, how do the Forms relate to material things?A Participation, Independence, Eternity.
B Causation, Participation, Imitation.

C Imitation, Causation, Eternity.

D Causation, Participation, Hierarchy.
The two metaphysical co-principles required for any change are:A Substance and Accident.
B Matter and Form.

C Potency and actuality.

D Essence and Existence.
Aristotle’s idea that morality is teleological is an application of his doctrine of:A Change.
B Causality.

C Substance.

D Hylemorphism.