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

2. Which of the following is true about the statement "Fido has brown spots"?
(a) Spots is a substance.
(b) Fido is a substance.
(c) Brown is a substance.
(d) The act of having is a substance.

3. Unlike Descartes, what was Kant unwilling to draw the conclusion that he was?
(a) A property.
(b) A substance.
(c) A philosopher.
(d) A self.

4. What is described as something which exists dependently upon a substance?
(a) Properties.
(b) World.
(c) Possibilities.
(d) Self.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of truth is "Fido has brown spots"?

2. What type of truth is one that is known before any experience?

3. Which of the following is described as being inaccessible to humanity?

4. When Kant attempted to use the unity of apperception to prove facts about the world, who admitted that these arguments were not generally philosophically sound?

5. What type of truth is something that is known only as the result of some experience?

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