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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) Cosmological arguments.
(b) Arguments from design.
(c) Arguments against the existence of God.
(d) Ontological arguments.

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

3. Which type of argument about religion did Kant believe had little weight?
(a) Arguments from design.
(b) Cosmological arguments.
(c) Scientific arguments.
(d) Ontological arguments.

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

5. Which of the following is an example of antinomy?
(a) The cat is on the chair. The cat is not on the chair.
(b) The cat eats food. The cat drinks water.
(c) The dog is brown. The dog has white spots.
(d) The cat is gray. Another cat is also gray.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does noumena serve a negative role in Kant's philosophy?

2. What was the occupation of Kant's father?

3. What did Kant have published before 1781?

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. Which of the following did Kant establish?

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