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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 type of truth is one that is known before any experience?
(a) Synthetic.
(b) Analytic.
(c) A priori.
(d) A posteriori.

2. Which of the following best describes Kant's categories of thought?
(a) Perceptions of existence.
(b) Modes of understanding.
(c) Categories of self-consciousness.
(d) Qualities of perception.

3. What philosophical school did Leibniz belong to?
(a) Syntheticists.
(b) Noumenalists.
(c) Extremists.
(d) Rationalists.

4. Which of the following did Hume deny?
(a) The existence of ethics.
(b) The existence of logic.
(c) The existence of the world.
(d) The existence of the self.

5. Why was Kant's system revolutionary?
(a) It asserted the existence of synthetic a posteriori truths.
(b) It asserted the existence of analytic a posteriori truths.
(c) It asserted the existence of analytic a priori truths.
(d) It asserted the existence of synthetic a priori truths.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of truth is "a square has four sides"?

2. Which of the following is true about the statement of "Fido has brown spots"?

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

4. In what year was Kant born?

5. Despite being dedicated to reason, which of the following described Kant?

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