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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4: The Logic of Illusion.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are physic-theological arguments?
(a) Arguments from design.
(b) Cosmological arguments.
(c) Arguments against the existence of God.
(d) Ontological arguments.

2. What is the category for something considered to be trivially true?
(a) Synthetic truth.
(b) Analytic truth.
(c) Rational truth.
(d) Real truth.

3. According to Kant, why was he reserved?
(a) It was necessary to avoid getting hurt.
(b) He worked too hard to have relationships.
(c) It was necessary for a philosophical lifestyle.
(d) It was necessary to be intelligent.

4. Despite being dedicated to reason, which of the following described Kant?
(a) Illogical.
(b) Superstitious.
(c) Religious.
(d) Unintelligent.

5. What was described as the appearance of objects?
(a) Noumena.
(b) Property.
(c) Phenomena.
(d) Substance.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is described as something which exists dependently upon a substance?

2. Which type of argument about religion did Kant believe had little weight?

3. What was Kant's fundamental question of metaphysics?

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 did Kant study throughout his early academic career?

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