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Epistemology - Classical and Modern Western Philosophy - Philosophy Previous Year Questions

Practice Epistemology - Classical and Modern Western Philosophy - Philosophy previous year questions organised from real papers, with year-wise coverage and clear topic navigation.

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Epistemology question pattern

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Difficulty distribution

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Medium 16 80%
Easy 3 15%
Hard 1 5%

Question type distribution

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MSQ 14 70%
MCQ 6 30%

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Philosophy
20 Qs

Most asked topics

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Classical and Modern Western Philosophy
20 Qs

Subtopic coverage

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Epistemology
20 Qs

Paper coverage

Question coverage for the most populated papers. Every active PYP paper remains listed below.

Humanities & Social Sciences - Philosophy (XH-C4) 2026
3 Qs
Humanities & Social Sciences-Philosophy (XH-C4) 2025
5 Qs
Humanities & Social Sciences-Philosophy (XH-C4) 2024
4 Qs
Humanities & Social Sciences-Philosophy (XH-C4) 2023
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Humanities & Social Sciences-Philosophy (XH-C4) 2022
5 Qs

Included previous year papers

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Humanities & Social Sciences - Philosophy (XH-C4) 202620263View paper
Humanities & Social Sciences-Philosophy (XH-C4) 202520255View paper
Humanities & Social Sciences-Philosophy (XH-C4) 202420244View paper
Humanities & Social Sciences-Philosophy (XH-C4) 202320233View paper
Humanities & Social Sciences-Philosophy (XH-C4) 202220225View paper

All Epistemology previous year questions

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2022 · Philosophy · Classical and Modern Western Philosophy · Epistemology
Humanities & Social Sciences-Philosophy (XH-C4) 2022

Which one among the following will be in agreement with Rene Descartes’ confirmation of the cogito, in his Discourse on Method?

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2022 · Philosophy · Classical and Modern Western Philosophy · Epistemology
Humanities & Social Sciences-Philosophy (XH-C4) 2022

Plato’s theory of recollection sheds light on the origins of knowledge. Which among the following option(s) does it intend to explain?

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2022 · Philosophy · Classical and Modern Western Philosophy · Epistemology
Humanities & Social Sciences-Philosophy (XH-C4) 2022
Which among the following statement(s) is/are in accordance with John Locke’s epistemological concern in his An essay concerning human understanding?
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2022 · Philosophy · Classical and Modern Western Philosophy · Epistemology
Humanities & Social Sciences-Philosophy (XH-C4) 2022
Which among the following fundamental rationalist beliefs concerning the cause and effect relation does David Hume reject?
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2022 · Philosophy · Classical and Modern Western Philosophy · Epistemology
Humanities & Social Sciences-Philosophy (XH-C4) 2022

If Immanuel Kant is said to have brought about a Copernican revolution in philosophy, it is because of the following reasons:

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2023 · Philosophy · Classical and Modern Western Philosophy · Epistemology
Humanities & Social Sciences-Philosophy (XH-C4) 2023

According to Hume’s An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding, the following is/are the principle[s] governing the connection of ideas:

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2023 · Philosophy · Classical and Modern Western Philosophy · Epistemology
Humanities & Social Sciences-Philosophy (XH-C4) 2023
Descartes postulates the evil genius in his Meditations to deny the certainty of which statements?
I. There is a table lamp to the left of the desk at which I am sitting.
II. The sum of the angles of a triangle is 180 degrees.
III. Sodium has only one electron in its outermost shell.
IV. Plants absorb nourishment from the soil by means of their roots.
V. I wish you were here.
VI. I can see my friend in the 10th floor window of that building from where I stand on the road here below.
VII. I am thinking of my dear mother.
VIII. 2+2=4.
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2023 · Philosophy · Classical and Modern Western Philosophy · Epistemology
Humanities & Social Sciences-Philosophy (XH-C4) 2023

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].

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2024 · Philosophy · Classical and Modern Western Philosophy · Epistemology
Humanities & Social Sciences-Philosophy (XH-C4) 2024
In the context of John Locke's distinction between 'qualities' and 'ideas', which among the following assertions is INCORRECT?
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2024 · Philosophy · Classical and Modern Western Philosophy · Epistemology
Humanities & Social Sciences-Philosophy (XH-C4) 2024
Which among the following statements is/are TRUE of Rene Descartes’ conception of ‘innate ideas’?
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2024 · Philosophy · Classical and Modern Western Philosophy · Epistemology
Humanities & Social Sciences-Philosophy (XH-C4) 2024
Which among the following statements is/are in accordance with David Hume’s description of ‘ideas’ and ‘impressions’?
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2024 · Philosophy · Classical and Modern Western Philosophy · Epistemology
Humanities & Social Sciences-Philosophy (XH-C4) 2024

Immanuel Kant makes an epistemological and a logical distinction between different kinds of propositions. In the light of this distinction, which among the following is/are CORRECT?

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2025 · Philosophy · Classical and Modern Western Philosophy · Epistemology
Humanities & Social Sciences-Philosophy (XH-C4) 2025

Which among the following statement(s) is/are in accordance with Plato’s conclusion in Theaetetus for the question, ‘what is knowledge?’

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2025 · Philosophy · Classical and Modern Western Philosophy · Epistemology
Humanities & Social Sciences-Philosophy (XH-C4) 2025

Which among the following statement(s) is/are true about Rene Descartes’ methods and his assumption that epistemic advance (method of discovery) is the only criterion of knowledge?

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2025 · Philosophy · Classical and Modern Western Philosophy · Epistemology
Humanities & Social Sciences-Philosophy (XH-C4) 2025

In the Essay Concerning Human Understanding, John Locke proposes an empiricist conception of knowledge that would agree with which of the following statement(s)?

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2025 · Philosophy · Classical and Modern Western Philosophy · Epistemology
Humanities & Social Sciences-Philosophy (XH-C4) 2025
Which among the following is/are in accordance with the ‘problem of induction’ that David Hume raises in his An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding?
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2025 · Philosophy · Classical and Modern Western Philosophy · Epistemology
Humanities & Social Sciences-Philosophy (XH-C4) 2025

Which among the following statement(s) is/are in conformity with Immanuel Kant’s notion of ‘synthetic a priori knowledge’?

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2026 · Philosophy · Classical and Modern Western Philosophy · Epistemology
Humanities & Social Sciences - Philosophy (XH-C4) 2026
“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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2026 · Philosophy · Classical and Modern Western Philosophy · Epistemology
Humanities & Social Sciences - Philosophy (XH-C4) 2026
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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2026 · Philosophy · Classical and Modern Western Philosophy · Epistemology
Humanities & Social Sciences - Philosophy (XH-C4) 2026

John Locke distinguished between primary qualities and secondary qualities.
Which one of the following options correctly exemplifies this distinction?

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