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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 type of truth is one that is known before any experience?
(a) A posteriori.
(b) Analytic.
(c) A priori.
(d) Synthetic.

2. How many times did Kant come close to marriage?
(a) 2.
(b) 1.
(c) 4.
(d) 3.

3. According to Kant, what does identity imply?
(a) Rationality.
(b) Reality.
(c) Causality.
(d) Substance.

4. Who did Kant borrow the term 'apperception' from?
(a) Hume.
(b) Leibniz.
(c) Descartes.
(d) Aristotle.

5. Which of the following made it a rare occurrence for Kant to attend school?
(a) His faith.
(b) His age.
(c) His economic class.
(d) His maturity.

Short Answer Questions

1. How was Kant influenced by Leibniz?

2. Which of the following is true about the statement of "Fido has brown spots"?

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

4. What philosophical school did Hume belong to?

5. What was Kant's fundamental question of metaphysics?

(see the answer key)

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