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Analytical Reasoning

Analytical Reasoning Drawing Reasonable Inferences from Passages

Q1)

Consider the sentence ‘there is no cat on the mat’. Which one of the following schools of classical Indian philosophy would regard this as tantamount to saying ‘this is a bare mat’?

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Q2)

“The necessary connection between cause and effect is the foundation of our inference from one to the other. The foundation of our inference is the transition arising from accustomed union.” – David Hume

Which one of the following claims is an accurate expression of Hume’s view on causal necessity?

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Q3)

“When somebody utters the word ‘table’, we understand its meaning through a process of exclusion of everything else in the universe of discourse except ‘table’.”

Who among the following classical Indian philosophers could be credited with such reasoning?

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Q4)

Rohit is a 25-year old software engineer with a happy family and a stable job.

One day Rohit realises that this may all be an illusion – he could simply be a “brain in a vat” hooked up to electrodes which simulate an external reality. Whether or not he is actually a brain in a vat, his sensory experiences would be the same. Therefore, he does not know that he is a 25-year old software engineer with a happy family and a stable job.

Which one of the following philosophers is most closely associated with an argument of this kind?

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Q5)

Examine the cognates of the word meaning ‘stream’ in the following:

Language 1 - mube
Language 2 - mupe
Language 3 - mup

Based on the majority principle and most natural development principle, identify which of the following statements about the proto-form is/are CORRECT.

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Q6)

Gerrymandering refers to the targeted redrawing of election constituencies so as to benefit a particular party. This is especially important where the electoral system is "first past the post" in each constituency (i.e. one winner is selected in each constituency based on a majority of votes won) and where there is no other provision for proportional representation (as for example in the German system). For a simple illustration of gerrymandering, if a region consists of districts 1, 2, 3, ..., 9 with districts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 favouring party P and 7, 8, 9 favouring party Q, then grouping of districts to constituencies as {1,2,3}, {4,5,6}, {7,8,9} will give two seats to party P and one seat to party Q, whereas the grouping {1,2,7}, {3,4,8}, {5,6,9} will give all three seats to party P, as they will secure a majority in each constituency.

Which of these statements can be deduced from the above?

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Q7)

What is common among Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities, Mahasweta Devi's Mother of 1084, Shobha Shakti's Gorilla, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of A Yellow Sun?

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Q8)

Which of the following is an example/are examples of noir, popular both as fiction and film?

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Q9)

Which of the following novels is/are predominantly set in Bombay?

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Q10)

In Arthur Conan Doyle's writings featuring Sherlock Holmes, as is the case with much of 19th century British fiction, colonialism appears as objects, events, animals, places, fears and desires. Which of the following support/s this claim?

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