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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2: The Background of Kant's Thought.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Kant publish "Prolegomena to any Future metaphysic which shall lay Claim to being a Science"?
(a) 1790.
(b) 1780.
(c) 1783.
(d) 1776.

2. What did Descartes argue was the first and most certain piece of knowledge?
(a) One is a human being.
(b) One is an intelligent self.
(c) One is a thinking self.
(d) One has an identity.

3. What statement sums up Descartes' certain piece of knowledge?
(a) "I think, therefore I am."
(b) "I live, therefore I am."
(c) "I see, therefore I am."
(d) "I exist, therefore I am."

4. Who did Kant believe was right about objective knowledge?
(a) Hume.
(b) Both Leibniz and Hume were half right.
(c) Leibniz.
(d) Descartes.

5. Which of the following did Hume deny?
(a) The existence of the world.
(b) The existence of logic.
(c) The existence of the self.
(d) The existence of ethics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of truth is one that is known before any experience?

2. According to Kant, why was he reserved?

3. What did Leibniz argue could allow us to know almost everything about the world?

4. What type of truth is something that is known only as the result of some experience?

5. What did "Critique of Judgment" deal with?

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