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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. What is the category for something considered to be trivially true?
(a) Rational truth.
(b) Real truth.
(c) Synthetic truth.
(d) Analytic truth.

2. What did Kant say is a privileged place in perception?
(a) The past.
(b) The present.
(c) Relativism.
(d) The future.

3. Whose philosophies did Kant revive in the distinction between practical and theoretical knowledge?
(a) Aristotle.
(b) Hume.
(c) Descartes.
(d) Plato.

4. When was "Critique of Practical Reason" published?
(a) 1788.
(b) 1793.
(c) 1790.
(d) 1781.

5. What did Kant's subjective argument concern?
(a) Proving that the self is a substance.
(b) Explaining the proof that the self exists.
(c) Proving that the self is a property.
(d) Explaining the faculties of understanding the self.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Scruton, Kant was the first philosopher since whom to place a significant emphasis on aesthetics?

2. Why was Kant's system revolutionary?

3. What did Kant have published before 1781?

4. What statement sums up Descartes' certain piece of knowledge?

5. Who began the problem of objective knowledge?

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