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

2. Whose theories greatly influenced Kant's metaphysical system?
(a) Montesquieu.
(b) Descartes.
(c) Isaac Newton.
(d) Aristotle.

3. What was Kant's fundamental question of metaphysics?
(a) How analytic a priori knowledge is possible.
(b) How the self can be conscious.
(c) How existence is possible.
(d) How synthetic a priori knowledge is possible.

4. Which of the following would have best described Kant?
(a) Uncreative.
(b) Eccentric.
(c) Annoying.
(d) Strict.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following did Hume deny?

2. How old was Kant when "Critique of Pure Reason" was published?

3. According to Scruton, Kant was the first philosopher since whom to place a significant emphasis on aesthetics?

4. What are the first types of truths, according to Kant?

5. According to Kant, why was he reserved?

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