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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6: Beauty and Design.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What elements are essential for aesthetic judgment?
(a) Objectivity and substance.
(b) Substance and property.
(c) Substance and property.
(d) Subjectivity and objectivity.

2. What are physic-theological arguments?
(a) Ontological arguments.
(b) Arguments from design.
(c) Arguments against the existence of God.
(d) Cosmological arguments.

3. What is rational psychology?
(a) The study of metaphysics.
(b) The study of the soul.
(c) The study of paranormal activity.
(d) The study of the universe.

4. Which of the following statements about predicates is not true?
(a) Existence does not imply a predicate.
(b) The ontological argument fails.
(c) Redness is a predicate of an apple.
(d) Existence is a perfection.

5. Which of the following is true about subjectivity?
(a) Subjectivity is only applied to properties.
(b) Subjectivity is not total when it comes to beauty.
(c) Beauty can never be subjective.
(d) Something that is subjective can never be objective.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of truth is something that is known only as the result of some experience?

2. According to Hume, what does all knowledge come through?

3. In an aesthetic situation that is not ideal, how does one judge?

4. Who did Kant believe was right about objective knowledge?

5. What type of religious arguments was Kant most interested in?

(see the answer key)

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