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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 did Descartes argue was the first and most certain piece of knowledge?
(a) One is a human being.
(b) One is an intelligent self.
(c) One has an identity.
(d) One is a thinking self.

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

3. What type of perception does 'apperception' refer to?
(a) Perception of a substance.
(b) Perception of the self.
(c) Perception of a group of people.
(d) Perception of a property.

4. When beginning an argument, what did Kant appeal to?
(a) The most extraordinary facts.
(b) The most basic sense of integrity.
(c) The sense of intelligence.
(d) The most basic facts.

5. Which of the following is true about the statement of "Fido has brown spots"?
(a) The sentence does not include a property.
(b) Brown is a property.
(c) Fido is a property.
(d) The act of having is a property.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was Kant born?

2. Where was David Hume from?

3. What did "Critique of Practical Reason" deal with?

4. What are the first types of truths, according to Kant?

5. What did Kant have published before 1781?

(see the answer key)

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