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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3: The Transcendental Deduction.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Despite being dedicated to reason, which of the following described Kant?
(a) Superstitious.
(b) Illogical.
(c) Unintelligent.
(d) Religious.

2. What is the name of the philosopher who wrote Meditations?
(a) Kant.
(b) Hume.
(c) Descartes.
(d) Leibniz.

3. What did Leibniz argue could allow us to know almost everything about the world?
(a) Objectivity.
(b) Religion.
(c) Ethics.
(d) Reason.

4. What did the "transcendental unity of apperception" begin?
(a) The study of substance versus properties.
(b) Kant's objective argument.
(c) The understanding of "categories of thought".
(d) The study of subjectivity.

5. Whose theories greatly influenced Kant's metaphysical system?
(a) Isaac Newton.
(b) Montesquieu.
(c) Descartes.
(d) Aristotle.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which philosopher did Kant begin his arguments similar to?

3. What philosophical school did Leibniz belong to?

4. What is the name of the university Kant attended?

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

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