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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. When did Kant publish "Prolegomena to any Future metaphysic which shall lay Claim to being a Science"?
(a) 1776.
(b) 1790.
(c) 1783.
(d) 1780.

2. 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?
(a) Scruton.
(b) Descartes.
(c) Kant.
(d) Hume.

3. What is the category for something considered to be trivially true?
(a) Rational truth.
(b) Analytic truth.
(c) Real truth.
(d) Synthetic truth.

4. What did Kant study throughout his early academic career?
(a) A variety of disciplines.
(b) Philosophy.
(c) Math.
(d) Geography.

5. What did Kant become after attending school?
(a) Writer.
(b) Professor.
(c) Electrician.
(d) Physicist.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the university Kant attended?

2. What do all religious arguments collapse into, according to Kant?

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

4. What can one assume if they consider the universe in its totality?

5. For Kant to have had any possibility of objective knowledge, what must have been true?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe Kant's career as a professor.

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

4. Describe the ontological religious argument.

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

6. What are antinomies?

7. What type of questions did Kant believe that "Critique of Pure Reason" answered?

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

9. Describe phenomena and noumena.

10. What did Kant think about marriage?

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