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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 something that is known only as the result of some experience?
(a) A priori.
(b) Analytic.
(c) A posteriori.
(d) Synthetic.

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

3. Which of the following did Kant establish?
(a) Perception is related to the world.
(b) Perception is irrelevant to philosophy.
(c) Reality is a small aspect of perception.
(d) The self is simply a perception.

4. What was Kant's fundamental question of metaphysics?
(a) How the self can be conscious.
(b) How synthetic a priori knowledge is possible.
(c) How existence is possible.
(d) How analytic a priori knowledge is possible.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many times did Kant come close to marriage?

2. When was "Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals" published?

3. When beginning an argument, what did Kant appeal to?

4. Despite being dedicated to reason, which of the following described Kant?

5. What philosophical school did Hume belong to?

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