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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is true about the statement "Fido has brown spots"?
(a) The act of having is a substance.
(b) Spots is a substance.
(c) Brown is a substance.
(d) Fido is a substance.

2. 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) Hume.
(b) Scruton.
(c) Kant.
(d) Descartes.

3. How old was Kant when "Critique of Pure Reason" was published?
(a) 57.
(b) 32.
(c) 45.
(d) 26.

4. What type of truth is "Fido has brown spots"?
(a) A priori.
(b) Synthetic.
(c) A posteriori.
(d) Analytic.

5. In what year was Kant born?
(a) 1724.
(b) 1767.
(c) 1712.
(d) 1820.

6. What food was used as an example to imply the unchanged existence of some medium?
(a) Carrot.
(b) Apple.
(c) Potato.
(d) Tomato.

7. According to Hume, what does all knowledge come through?
(a) Senses.
(b) Reason.
(c) Experience.
(d) Logic.

8. What did "Critique of Practical Reason" deal with?
(a) Religion.
(b) Ethics.
(c) Logic.
(d) Aesthetics.

9. Which of the following statements about predicates is not true?
(a) The ontological argument fails.
(b) Redness is a predicate of an apple.
(c) Existence is a perfection.
(d) Existence does not imply a predicate.

10. What statement sums up Descartes' certain piece of knowledge?
(a) "I think, therefore I am."
(b) "I exist, therefore I am."
(c) "I live, therefore I am."
(d) "I see, therefore I am."

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

12. When was "Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals" published?
(a) 1800.
(b) 1785.
(c) 1795.
(d) 1790.

13. 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.

14. What did Descartes argue was the first and most certain piece of knowledge?
(a) One is an intelligent self.
(b) One is a human being.
(c) One has an identity.
(d) One is a thinking self.

15. What did Kant say is a privileged place in perception?
(a) The present.
(b) The past.
(c) The future.
(d) Relativism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following did Kant establish?

2. Who did Kant borrow the term 'apperception' from?

3. Who did Kant believe was right about objective knowledge?

4. According to Kant, what does the notion of change imply?

5. Which of the following is true about the statement of "Fido has brown spots"?

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