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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 sense did Kant have when contemplating natural objects?
(a) Transcendent.
(b) Faithless.
(c) Failing.
(d) Aesthetic in absence.

2. According to Hume, what can reason tell us about?
(a) One's fears.
(b) One's faith.
(c) One's intelligence.
(d) One's experience.

3. What best describes the arguments in Kant's "Critique of Judgment"?
(a) Impressive.
(b) Subjective.
(c) Weak.
(d) Illogical.

4. 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 priori truths.
(d) It asserted the existence of synthetic a posteriori truths.

5. When judging beauty, what does the mind apply?
(a) Concepts.
(b) Properties.
(c) Substance.
(d) Subjects.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the judgment of beauty require?

2. What philosophical school did Leibniz belong to?

3. Which of the following is described as being inaccessible to humanity?

4. According to Kant's reply to religious arguments, what is not a predicate?

5. What type of judgment is beauty?

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