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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the occupation of Kant's father?
(a) Harness maker.
(b) Scientist.
(c) Blacksmith.
(d) Writer.

2. What does every mistake share?
(a) Attempting to use conditioned knowledge.
(b) Attempting to go beyond the boundaries of experience.
(c) Attempting to make the right decision.
(d) Attempting to use perspective.

3. How was Kant influenced by Leibniz?
(a) He thought Leibniz was more intelligent than Hume.
(b) He agreed with him so much.
(c) He had so many disagreements with him.
(d) He sided with Leibniz over Hume.

4. What philosophical school did Leibniz belong to?
(a) Rationalists.
(b) Extremists.
(c) Syntheticists.
(d) Noumenalists.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following did Kant establish?

2. What did "Critique of Practical Reason" deal with?

3. Who did Kant borrow the term 'apperception' from?

4. What are antinomies the logical fallacies of?

5. What are physic-theological arguments?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Hume argue about reason?

2. What distinctions did Kant set forth to classify truths?

3. What is the difference between a substance and a property? Give an example of each.

4. Describe Kant's published life.

5. What was the effect of Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason"?

6. What are Kant's categories of thought?

7. Why did the second version of "Critique of Pure Reason" fail?

8. Why aren't Kant's arguments about the unity of apperception sound?

9. Describe the purpose of Kant's subjective argument.

10. What does the following statement mean? Existence is not a predicate of perfection.

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