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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. What are antinomies the logical fallacies of?
(a) Psychology.
(b) Cosmology.
(c) Theology.
(d) Philosophy.

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

3. 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.

4. When beginning an argument, what did Kant appeal to?
(a) The sense of intelligence.
(b) The most extraordinary facts.
(c) The most basic sense of integrity.
(d) The most basic facts.

5. Which of the following truths is considered to be more substantive?
(a) Synthetic.
(b) Rational.
(c) Irrational.
(d) Analytic.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was described as being an object itself?

2. How was Kant influenced by Leibniz?

3. For Kant to have had any possibility of objective knowledge, what must have been true?

4. What type of perception does 'apperception' refer to?

5. When was "Critique of Practical Reason" published?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Kant's time in school.

2. What was the effect of Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason"?

3. Why did Kant believe the present was the most privileged time period?

4. Describe "Critique of Practical Reason" and "Critique of Judgment".

5. Describe Kant's career as a professor.

6. What did Kant think about marriage?

7. Why do you think Kant wanted to believe in the existence of the soul from a philosophical standpoint?

8. What is apperception?

9. What was Leibniz's argument about reason?

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

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