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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Hume, what can reason tell us about?
(a) One's fears.
(b) One's intelligence.
(c) One's experience.
(d) One's faith.

2. For Kant to have had any possibility of objective knowledge, what must have been true?
(a) Phenomena and substance must have been casually related.
(b) Phenomena and noumena must have been closely related.
(c) Phenomena and noumena must have been casually related.
(d) Phenomena and properties must have been casually related.

3. What philosophical school did Hume belong to?
(a) Empiricism.
(b) Rationalism.
(c) Extremism.
(d) Irrationalism.

4. When was "Critique of Practical Reason" published?
(a) 1781.
(b) 1793.
(c) 1790.
(d) 1788.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is theology?

2. Who began the problem of objective knowledge?

3. What did Leibniz argue could allow us to know almost everything about the world?

4. What are antinomies the logical fallacies of?

5. Despite being dedicated to reason, which of the following described Kant?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are Kant's categories of thought?

2. According to Hume, what is needed to believe or understand something?

3. What did Kant think about marriage?

4. What type of questions did Kant believe that "Critique of Pure Reason" answered?

5. What distinctions did Kant set forth to classify truths?

6. What does the following statement mean? Existence is not a predicate of perfection.

7. What is objective knowledge?

8. Describe phenomena and noumena.

9. Describe mistakes as they are described in the reading.

10. What are antinomies?

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