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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 something that is known only as the result of some experience?
(a) A priori.
(b) Synthetic.
(c) Analytic.
(d) A posteriori.

2. When did Kant publish "Prolegomena to any Future metaphysic which shall lay Claim to being a Science"?
(a) 1783.
(b) 1776.
(c) 1790.
(d) 1780.

3. Which of the following is described as being inaccessible to humanity?
(a) Ethics.
(b) The animal kingdom.
(c) Reason.
(d) The world.

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

5. According to Scruton, Kant was the first philosopher since whom to place a significant emphasis on aesthetics?
(a) Hume.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Leibniz.
(d) Plato.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What philosophical school did Leibniz belong to?

3. According to Kant, why was he reserved?

4. Who began the problem of objective knowledge?

5. When was "Critique of Practical Reason" published?

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