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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. Which of the following truths is considered to be more substantive?
(a) Rational.
(b) Analytic.
(c) Irrational.
(d) Synthetic.

2. What did Leibniz argue could allow us to know almost everything about the world?
(a) Reason.
(b) Religion.
(c) Objectivity.
(d) Ethics.

3. Who began the problem of objective knowledge?
(a) Descartes.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Plato.
(d) Hume.

4. What did the "transcendental unity of apperception" begin?
(a) The study of subjectivity.
(b) Kant's objective argument.
(c) The understanding of "categories of thought".
(d) The study of substance versus properties.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose philosophies did Kant revive in the distinction between practical and theoretical knowledge?

2. How was Kant influenced by Leibniz?

3. What is described by something whose existence is not dependent upon anything else?

4. What type of truth is "a square has four sides"?

5. According to Kant, what does the notion of change imply?

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