Given below are two statements: Statement I: The Buddhists argue that reality…
2023
Given below are two statements:
Statement I: The Buddhists argue that reality should be understood as a linguistic construct.
Statement II: In today's context, we can say that reality is a media construct.
In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: C. Statement I is true but Statement II is false — ConceptConstructivist approaches distinguish the world from the conceptual categories through which people describe and experience it. In Buddhist Madhyamaka,…
- A.
Both Statement I and Statement II are true
- B.
Both Statement I and Statement II are false
- C.
Statement I is true but Statement II is false
- D.
Statement I is false but Statement II is true
Show answer & explanation
Correct answer: C
Concept
Constructivist approaches distinguish the world from the conceptual categories through which people describe and experience it. In Buddhist Madhyamaka, conventional phenomena are dependently designated and lack intrinsic essence, so language and concepts participate in how conventional reality is understood.
Media theory distinguishes reality from its mediated representation. Selection, framing, and repetition can shape perceived or socially available reality, but the stronger claim that media create reality itself depends on how broadly “reality” is being used.
Application
Statement I concerns conventional, language-dependent designation. This matches the Buddhist account that phenomena are understood through dependent conceptual and linguistic conventions.
Statement II uses the stronger wording that reality is a media construct. Media-literacy texts often use similar shorthand for mediated or perceived reality; the UGC NET official key applies the narrower distinction that media construct representations or versions of reality, not reality itself.
Cross-check
Both statements true follows the broader media-literacy shorthand, but it does not preserve the official key’s distinction between reality and its representation.
Both statements false overlooks the Buddhist role of dependent linguistic designation.
Statement I true and Statement II false follows the narrower scope used by the official key.
Statement I false and Statement II true reverses the two theoretical attributions.
The NTA final answer key for the 16 June 2023 second shift maps General Paper Question ID 1670—the source item—to the answer value “Statement I is true but Statement II is false.”
Result
For this UGC NET previous-year question, Statement I is true, whereas Statement II is false.