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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3: The Transcendental Deduction.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Kant have published before 1781?
(a) "Critique of Judgment".
(b) Nothing.
(c) A few unremarkable, short books.
(d) "Critique of Pure Reason".

2. In what year was Kant born?
(a) 1724.
(b) 1767.
(c) 1820.
(d) 1712.

3. Which of the following is described as being inaccessible to humanity?
(a) The world.
(b) Ethics.
(c) Reason.
(d) The animal kingdom.

4. What is described as something which exists dependently upon a substance?
(a) Self.
(b) World.
(c) Properties.
(d) Possibilities.

5. According to Scruton, Kant was the first philosopher since whom to place a significant emphasis on aesthetics?
(a) Plato.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Leibniz.
(d) Hume.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Hume, what does all knowledge come through?

2. Which of the following made it a rare occurrence for Kant to attend school?

3. What did Descartes argue was the first and most certain piece of knowledge?

4. When Kant attempted to use the unity of apperception to prove facts about the world, who admitted that these arguments were not generally philosophically sound?

5. What is the name of the philosopher who wrote Meditations?

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