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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What type of truth is "Fido has brown spots"?
(a) Synthetic.
(b) A posteriori.
(c) A priori.
(d) Analytic.
2. What are the first types of truths, according to Kant?
(a) Rational and irrational.
(b) Analytic and synthetic.
(c) False and accurate.
(d) Real and unreal.
3. What type of religious arguments was Kant most interested in?
(a) Arguments against God's existence.
(b) Arguments for church's relevance.
(c) Arguments against church's relevance.
(d) Arguments given for God's existence.
4. Which type of argument about religion did Kant believe had little weight?
(a) Scientific arguments.
(b) Cosmological arguments.
(c) Arguments from design.
(d) Ontological arguments.
5. What are antinomies the logical fallacies of?
(a) Philosophy.
(b) Psychology.
(c) Theology.
(d) Cosmology.
6. According to Kant's reply to religious arguments, what is not a predicate?
(a) Existence.
(b) Self.
(c) God.
(d) Perfection.
7. According to the ontological argument, why does God exist?
(a) Existence is a perfection.
(b) Existence warrants perfection.
(c) Perfection only exists in one entity.
(d) A creator of the world must exist.
8. When was "Critique of Practical Reason" published?
(a) 1788.
(b) 1781.
(c) 1793.
(d) 1790.
9. What is the category for something considered to be trivially true?
(a) Rational truth.
(b) Analytic truth.
(c) Synthetic truth.
(d) Real truth.
10. According to Scruton, Kant was the first philosopher since whom to place a significant emphasis on aesthetics?
(a) Aristotle.
(b) Hume.
(c) Plato.
(d) Leibniz.
11. Who began the problem of objective knowledge?
(a) Hume.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Plato.
(d) Descartes.
12. 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?
(a) Kant.
(b) Hume.
(c) Descartes.
(d) Scruton.
13. Which philosopher did Kant begin his arguments similar to?
(a) Leibniz.
(b) Hume.
(c) Descartes.
(d) Plato.
14. Why does noumena serve a negative role in Kant's philosophy?
(a) It is logically impossible to know what role noumena play in phenomena.
(b) Kant's system does not acknowledge the existence of noumena.
(c) It is logically impossible to know what a thing is in itself.
(d) Noumena are generally negative objects.
15. According to Kant, why was he reserved?
(a) It was necessary to avoid getting hurt.
(b) It was necessary for a philosophical lifestyle.
(c) He worked too hard to have relationships.
(d) It was necessary to be intelligent.
Short Answer Questions
1. Which of the following statements about Kant is true?
2. What is the name of the university Kant attended?
3. What is the name of the philosopher who wrote Meditations?
4. What food was used as an example to imply the unchanged existence of some medium?
5. What was a result of "Critique of Reason" being difficult to read?
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