GATE 2023 Humanities & Social Sciences Philosophy Question Paper PDF is available here for download. IIT Kanpur conducted GATE 2023 Humanities & Social Sciences exam on February 5, 2023 in the Forenoon Session from 09:30 AM to 12:30 PM. Students have to answer 65 questions in GATE 2023 Humanities & Social Sciences Philosophy Question Paper carrying a total weightage of 100 marks. 10 questions are from the General Aptitude section and 55 questions are from Core Discipline.
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Rafi told Mary, “I am thinking of watching a film this weekend.”
The following reports the above statement in indirect speech:
Rafi told Mary that he ______ of watching a film that weekend.
Permit : ______ :: Enforce : Relax (By word meaning)
Given a fair six-faced dice where the faces are labelled ‘1’, ‘2’, ‘3’, ‘4’, ‘5’, and ‘6’, what is the probability of getting a ‘1’ on the first roll of the dice and a ‘4’ on the second roll?
A recent survey shows that 65% of tobacco users were advised to stop consuming tobacco. The survey also shows that 3 out of 10 tobacco users attempted to stop using tobacco.
Based only on the information in the above passage, which one of the following options can be logically inferred with certainty?
How many triangles are present in the given figure?
Students of all the departments of a college who have successfully completed the registration process are eligible to vote in the upcoming college elections. By the due date, none} of the students from the Department of Human Sciences had completed the registration process. Which set(s) of statements can be inferred with certainty?
(i) All those students who would not be eligible to vote would certainly belong to the Department of Human Sciences.
(ii) None of the students from departments other than Human Sciences failed to complete the registration process within the due time.
(iii) All the eligible voters would certainly be students who are not from the Department of Human Sciences.
Which one of the following options represents the given graph?
Which one of the options does NOT describe the passage below or follow from it?
Passage:
We tend to think of cancer as a ‘modern’ illness because its metaphors are so modern. It is a disease of overproduction, of sudden growth, a growth that is unstoppable, tipped into the abyss of no control. Modern cell biology encourages us to imagine the cell as a molecular machine. Cancer is that machine unable to quench its initial command (to grow) and thus transform into an indestructible, self-propelled automaton.
The digit in the unit’s place of the product \(3^{999}\times 7^{1000}\) is ______.
A square with sides of length \(6\,cm\) is given. The boundary of the shaded region is defined by two semi-circles whose diameters are the sides of the square, as shown. The area of the shaded region is ______ \(cm^2\).
Which word below best describes the idea of being both Spineless} and Cowardly}?
Choose the right preposition to fill up the blank:
The whole family got together ___ Diwali
Select the correct option to fill in all the blanks to complete the passage:
The (i)______ factor amid this turbulence has been the (ii)______ of high-octane, action-oriented films such as RRR, K.G.F: Chapter 2 and Pushpa from film industries in the south of the country. Traditionally, films made in the south have done well in their own (iii)______. But increasingly, their dubbed versions have performed well in the Hindi heartland, with collections (iv)______ those of their Bollywood counterparts.
The following passage consists of 6 sentences. The first and sixth sentences of the passage are at their correct positions, while the middle four sentences (represented by 2, 3, 4, and 5) are jumbled up.
Choose the correct sequence of the sentences so that they form a coherent paragraph:
1. Most obviously, mobility is taken to be a geographical as well as a social phenomenon.
2. Much of the social mobility literature regarded society as a uniform surface and failed to register the geographical intersections of region, city and place, with the social categories of class, gender and ethnicity.
3. The existing sociology of migration is incidentally far too limited in its concerns to be very useful here.
4. Further, I am concerned with the flows of people within, but especially beyond, the territory of each society, and how these flows may relate to many different desires, for work, housing, leisure, religion, family relationships, criminal gain, asylum seeking and so on.
5. Moreover, not only people are mobile but so too are many ‘objects’.
6. I show that sociology’s recent development of a ‘sociology of objects’ needs to be taken further and that the diverse flows of objects across societal borders and their intersections with the multiple flows of people are hugely significant.
The population of a country increased by 5% from 2020 to 2021. Then, the population decreased by 5% from 2021 to 2022. By what percentage did the population change from 2020 to 2022?
The words Thin: Slim: Slender are related in some way. Identify the correct option(s) that reflect(s) the same relationship:
A pandemic like situation hit the country last year, resulting in loss of human life and economic depression. To improve the condition of its citizens, the government made a series of emergency medical interventions and increased spending to revive the economy. In both these efforts, district administration authorities were actively involved.
Which of the following action(s) are plausible?
Six students, Arif (Ar), Balwinder (Bw), Chintu (Ct), David (Dv), Emon (Em) and Fulmoni (Fu) appeared in GATE–XH (2022).
Bw scores less than Ct in XH–B1, but more than Ar in XH–C1.
Dv scores more than Bw in XH–C1, and more than Ct in XH–B1.
Em scores less than Dv, but more than Fu in XH–B1.
Fu scores more than Dv in XH–C1.
Ar scores less than Em, but more than Fu in XH–B1.
Who scores highest in XH–B1?
Select the correct relation between \(E\) and \(F\). \(E=\dfrac{x}{1+x}\) \; and \; \(F=\dfrac{-x}{\,1-x\,}\), \; with \(x>1\).
A code language is formulated thus:
Vowels in the original word are replaced by the next vowel from the list of vowels, A-E-I-O-U (For example, E is replaced by I and U is replaced by A). Consonants in the original word are replaced by the previous consonant (For example, T is replaced by S and V is replaced by T).
Then how does the word, GOODMORNING appear in the coded language?
The stranger is by nature no "owner of soil" -- soil not only in the physical, but also in the figurative sense of a life-substance, which is fixed, if not in a point in space, at least in an ideal point of the social environment. Although in more intimate relations, he may develop all kinds of charm and significance, as long as he is considered a stranger in the eyes of the other, he is not an "owner of soil." Restriction to intermediary trade, and often (as though sublimated from it) to pure finance, gives him the specific character of mobility. If mobility takes place within a closed group, it embodies that synthesis of nearness and distance which constitutes the formal position of the stranger. For, the fundamentally mobile person comes in contact, at one time or another, with every individual, but is not organically connected, through established ties of kinship, locality, and occupation, with any single one.
What assumptions can be made about the stranger from the passage above?
L is the only son of A and S. S has one sibling, B, who is married to L’s aunt, K. B is the only son of D. How are L and D related? Select the possible option(s):
The following segments of a sentence are given in jumbled order. The first and last segments (1 and 5) are in their correct positions, while the middle three segments (represented by 2, 3, and 4) are jumbled up. Choose the correct order of the segments so that they form a coherent sentence:
1. Consumed multitudes are jostling and shoving inside me
2. and guided only by the memory of a large white bedsheet with a roughly circular hole some seven inches in diameter cut into the center,
3. clutching at the dream of that holey, mutilated square of linen, which is my
talisman, my open-sesame,
4. I must commence the business of remaking my life from the point at which
it really began,
5. some thirty-two years before anything as obvious, as present, as my clockridden, crime-stained birth.
“I told you the truth,” I say yet again, “Memory’s truth, because memory has its own special kind. It selects, eliminates, alters, exaggerates, minimizes, glorifies, and vilifies also; but in the end it creates its own reality, its heterogeneous but usually coherent versions of events; and no sane human being ever trusts someone else’s version more than his own.”
What are the different ways in which ‘truth’ can be understood from the passage?
A firm needs both skilled labour and unskilled labour. Skilled wage = Rs. 40,000 per month; unskilled wage = Rs. 15,000 per month. The total wage bill for 100 labourers is Rs. 23,75,000 in a month. How many skilled labour are employed? (in Integer)}
Select the odd word and write the option number as answer:
In Sāṅkhya philosophy ‘mind’ (manas) is an evolute of _____.
Which one of the following is the manifestation of the Absolute Spirit in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit?
The Carvaka system accepts the following purusharthas:
In Taittiriya Upanishad there is a discussion of five sheaths (pancha–kosa) in which the individual self is encased. Which one is the sheath (kosa) of knowledge and intelligence?
According to Swami Vivekananda, ‘Universal Religion’ would consist in recognising that there are different ways of approaching the religious object. The watch-word for universal religion is _______.
In his ‘The Concept of the Absolute and Its Alternative Forms’, K. C. Bhattacharyya says, “… consciousness is of three kinds – knowing, feeling and willing…” Which one of the following is the ‘absolute’ of ‘knowing’?
Which one of the following is NOT considered a pramana by the Prabhakara Mimamsaka?
Marx introduces the concept of ‘commodity fetishism’ in Capital. Which one of the following is a correct description of the concept?
W. V. O. Quine famously writes in ‘Two Dogmas of Empiricism’:
Comparing the thoughts of Heraclitus and Parmenides, we can say that:
According to Heidegger’s Being and Time, the ontological difference is:
In Plato’s Republic, the virtue of moderation is present:
In Káśmīra Śaivism, Śiva is the only reality, the one without a second. Which among the following is/are the other name(s) for Káśmīra Śaivism?
In ‘Democracy’, B. R. Ambedkar lays out certain fundamental assumptions about his conception of democracy. They include:
Read the following passage carefully and answer the question:
My uniform experience has convinced me that there is no other God than Truth… That is why my devotion to Truth has drawn me into the field of politics; and I can say without the slightest hesitation, yet in all humility, that those who say that religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion means. Identification with everything that lives is impossible without self-purification; without self-purification the observance of the law of Ahimsa must remain an empty dream; God can never be realized by one who is not pure of heart.
--- M. K. Gandhi, An Autobiography or the Story of my Experiments with Truth, p. 615
Which among the following are NOT in conformity with the above passage?
Soli likes either logic or biology. If Soli likes logic, then he is not a happy person. Neither Soli nor Rupinder likes biology. Which among the following can be concluded from the premises given here?
On the basis of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, we can say the following about virtue:
According to Hume’s An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding, the following is/are the principle[s] governing the connection of ideas:
In his Yogasūtra, Patañjali mentions five kinds of afflictions (kleśas). Which one of the following is NOT among the five afflictions?
According to Jaina philosophy, all substances (dravya) but one have extension in space (astikāya). That one substance which has no extension in space (anastikāya) is _____.
Husserl’s fifth Cartesian Meditation is founded upon the realization that the reduction to my transcendental sphere of ownness:
According to the Nyāya system, the argument “A sparrow is a bird, since it has wings” would have an inferential defect (hetvābhāsa) called _______
Consider the following sentence: ‘Dhavala is a white cow.’ For the Vaiśeṣika, the meaning (artha) of the sentence consists of the following padārthas:
According to the theory advocated by G. Frege in his ‘On Sense and Reference’, the expression ‘the largest prime number’ would have ________.
In the Phaedo}, Plato’s Socrates develops a novel way of understanding the beauty of things. He tells us:
Descartes postulates the evil genius in his Meditations} to deny the certainty of which statements?
Which of the following statement[s] is/are NOT true in relation to Kant’s concept of the will?
We see a bronze statue of Poseidon in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens. Which of the following would be [a] cause[s] of the statue for Aristotle if we read his Physics?
In the Buddhist theory of elements (dharmas), dharmas are the ultimate momentary elements of existence. The number of elements varies in different schools of Buddhism. Of the following alternatives, which pair(s) does/do NOT} give us the respective number of dharmas accepted in Sautrāntika and Sarvāstivāda (Vaibhāṣika) schools?
According to the Advaita of Śaṅkara, the individual self (jīva) is:
Mohammad Iqbal’s views on the nature of ‘intuition’ would state:
Sandra Harding’s Standpoint Epistemology involves:
In J. S. Mill’s articulation of utilitarianism which of the following statements about justice are valid?
According to Russell’s “On Denoting”, the proposition “The prime number between 7 and 11 is NOT} larger than 12” would be true, if \ \ \ \ \ \ \ .
(i) \(p \supset (q \cdot r)\) (ii) \(\sim(p \supset s)\)
Taking (i) and (ii) as premises, which of the following can be deduced?
\(\sim q\) can be deduced from \(\sim(p \supset (q \lor r))\) by using rules of propositional logic in the following sequence(s):
Read the passage below from Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations carefully and answer the question.
Passage:
“I can think of no better expression to characterize these similarities than ‘family resemblances’; for the various resemblances between members of a family – build, features, colour of eyes, gait, temperament, and so on and so forth – overlap and crisscross in the same way. – And I shall say: ‘games’ form a family.
And likewise the kinds of number, for example, form a family. Why do we call something a ‘number’? Well, perhaps because it has a direct affinity with several things that have hitherto been called ‘number’; and this can be said to give it an indirect affinity with other things that we also call ‘numbers.’ And we extend our concept of number, as in spinning a thread we twist fibre on fibre. And the strength of the thread resides not in the fact that some one fibre runs through its whole length but in the overlapping of many fibres.
But if someone wanted to say, ‘So there is something common to all these constructions – namely, the disjunction of all their common properties’ – I’d reply: Now you are only playing with a word. One might as well say, ‘There is a Something that runs through the whole thread – namely, the continuous overlapping of these fibres.’”
-- Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, No. 67
Which of the following statement[s] does Wittgenstein imply in the above passage?
In Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason, the equation 7 + 5 = 12 is synthetic a priori and not simply analytic for the following reason(s).
According to Sartre’s Being and Nothingness, which of the following statement[s] is/are true?
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