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

2. What type of truth is "a square has four sides"?
(a) Rational.
(b) Irrational.
(c) Synthetic.
(d) Analytic.

3. What are the statements "Fido is on the couch" and "Fido is not on the couch" examples of?
(a) Antinomy.
(b) Cosmology.
(c) Property.
(d) Substance.

4. What is the problem with Descartes' certain knowledge?
(a) It assumes the existence of a self.
(b) It assumes that breathing warrants thinking.
(c) It assumes that humans think.
(d) It assumes that existence warrants thinking.

5. What type of truth is "Fido has brown spots"?
(a) A priori.
(b) Analytic.
(c) A posteriori.
(d) Synthetic.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following is true about aesthetic perception?

3. What is the category for something considered to be trivially true?

4. For Hume to believe something, what did he need?

5. When judging beauty, what does the mind apply?

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