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

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

3. What is described by something whose existence is not dependent upon anything else?
(a) Properties.
(b) Substance.
(c) Self.
(d) World.

4. What type of truth is "Fido has brown spots"?
(a) A priori.
(b) Analytic.
(c) Synthetic.
(d) A posteriori.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Kant become after attending school?

2. Who began the problem of objective knowledge?

3. When was "Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals" published?

4. Which of the following would have best described Kant?

5. Whose philosophies did Kant revive in the distinction between practical and theoretical knowledge?

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