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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. For Hume to believe something, what did he need?
(a) Empirical evidence.
(b) Inferential evidence.
(c) Reason.
(d) Infallible belief.

2. According to the ontological argument, why does God exist?
(a) Existence is a perfection.
(b) A creator of the world must exist.
(c) Existence warrants perfection.
(d) Perfection only exists in one entity.

3. Which of the following is an example of antinomy?
(a) The dog is brown. The dog has white spots.
(b) The cat eats food. The cat drinks water.
(c) The cat is gray. Another cat is also gray.
(d) The cat is on the chair. The cat is not on the chair.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who began the problem of objective knowledge?

3. What type of judgment is beauty?

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

5. What philosophical school did Leibniz belong to?

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