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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 is theology?
(a) The study of God.
(b) The study of the universe.
(c) The study of the soul.
(d) The study of people.

2. What is cosmology?
(a) The study of the soul.
(b) The study of the universe.
(c) The study of God.
(d) The study of people.

3. Why was Kant's system revolutionary?
(a) It asserted the existence of analytic a priori truths.
(b) It asserted the existence of analytic a posteriori truths.
(c) It asserted the existence of synthetic a posteriori truths.
(d) It asserted the existence of synthetic a priori truths.

4. Kant's "Critique of Judgment" is considered to be which of the following?
(a) Concise and focused.
(b) Strongly argued but disorganized.
(c) Disorganized and unclear.
(d) Concise and clear.

5. Why does noumena serve a negative role in Kant's philosophy?
(a) It is logically impossible to know what role noumena play in phenomena.
(b) Kant's system does not acknowledge the existence of noumena.
(c) It is logically impossible to know what a thing is in itself.
(d) Noumena are generally negative objects.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What philosophical school did Hume belong to?

3. According to Kant, how many people perceive the same aesthetic object the same way?

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

5. What does every mistake share?

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