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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 question did Kant's subjective argument begin with?
(a) What are the prerequisites for experience?
(b) What are the self's prerequisites for existence?
(c) How can experience be defined?
(d) How can philosophers define existence?

2. What philosophical school did Hume belong to?
(a) Rationalism.
(b) Irrationalism.
(c) Extremism.
(d) Empiricism.

3. How was Kant influenced by Leibniz?
(a) He sided with Leibniz over Hume.
(b) He had so many disagreements with him.
(c) He thought Leibniz was more intelligent than Hume.
(d) He agreed with him so much.

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?
(a) Kant.
(b) Descartes.
(c) Hume.
(d) Scruton.

5. What did Kant's subjective argument concern?
(a) Proving that the self is a property.
(b) Explaining the proof that the self exists.
(c) Explaining the faculties of understanding the self.
(d) Proving that the self is a substance.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Kant have published before 1781?

2. What type of truth is "a square has four sides"?

3. When was "Critique of Judgment" published?

4. What did Kant become after attending school?

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

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