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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 Kant study throughout his early academic career?
(a) Math.
(b) Philosophy.
(c) A variety of disciplines.
(d) Geography.

2. Who did Kant borrow the term 'apperception' from?
(a) Hume.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Descartes.
(d) Leibniz.

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

4. What statement sums up Descartes' certain piece of knowledge?
(a) "I exist, therefore I am."
(b) "I live, therefore I am."
(c) "I think, therefore I am."
(d) "I see, therefore I am."

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How was Kant influenced by Leibniz?

2. For Hume to believe something, what did he need?

3. What did Kant's objective argument concern?

4. What did the "transcendental unity of apperception" begin?

5. How many times did Kant come close to marriage?

(see the answer key)

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