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

2. Which of the following describes why Kant saw beauty as objective?
(a) The judgments are not of substances, but merely of properties.
(b) The judgments are correct appraisals of a unique interpretation.
(c) The judgments are all false, as aesthetics do not truly exist.
(d) The judgments are of works of art.

3. What does "Critique of Judgment" influence?
(a) The study of theology.
(b) The study of psychology.
(c) The study of aesthetics.
(d) The study of cosmology.

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

5. In the ideal aesthetic case, what is one moved by?
(a) The properties of a substance.
(b) The inner-workings of a mechanism.
(c) Raw sensory experience.
(d) Perception of a person.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to the ontological argument, why does God exist?

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

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

5. What is always overlaid with concepts, according to the reading?

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