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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 the "transcendental unity of apperception" begin?
(a) Kant's objective argument.
(b) The study of subjectivity.
(c) The study of substance versus properties.
(d) The understanding of "categories of thought".

2. According to Kant, what does identity imply?
(a) Substance.
(b) Causality.
(c) Rationality.
(d) Reality.

3. What did Kant's objective argument concern?
(a) The existence of the self outside the mind.
(b) The content of synthetic a priori knowledge.
(c) The content of the self.
(d) The existence of self-consciousness.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What food was used as an example to imply the unchanged existence of some medium?

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

4. Where was Immanuel Kant born?

5. What is considered to be Kant's most important work?

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