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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 type of truth is "a square has four sides"?
(a) Synthetic.
(b) Rational.
(c) Analytic.
(d) Irrational.

2. What do all religious arguments collapse into, according to Kant?
(a) Historical arguments.
(b) Ontological arguments.
(c) Cosmological arguments.
(d) Arguments from design.

3. According to Scruton, Kant was the first philosopher since whom to place a significant emphasis on aesthetics?
(a) Aristotle.
(b) Leibniz.
(c) Hume.
(d) Plato.

4. When did Kant die?
(a) 1804.
(b) 1800.
(c) 1810.
(d) 1809.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following truths is considered to be more substantive?

2. What do phenomena represent?

3. What statement sums up Descartes' certain piece of knowledge?

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

5. For Hume to believe something, what did he need?

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