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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) Cosmology.
(b) Philosophy.
(c) Theology.
(d) Psychology.

2. What are physic-theological arguments?
(a) Ontological arguments.
(b) Arguments against the existence of God.
(c) Arguments from design.
(d) Cosmological arguments.

3. Whose theories greatly influenced Kant's metaphysical system?
(a) Montesquieu.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Isaac Newton.
(d) Descartes.

4. Which of the following best describes Kant's categories of thought?
(a) Categories of self-consciousness.
(b) Modes of understanding.
(c) Perceptions of existence.
(d) Qualities of perception.

5. When did Kant publish "Prolegomena to any Future metaphysic which shall lay Claim to being a Science"?
(a) 1790.
(b) 1780.
(c) 1783.
(d) 1776.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the university Kant attended?

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?

3. How many times did Kant come close to marriage?

4. What did Kant study throughout his early academic career?

5. Which of the following statements about predicates is not true?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Kant and Descartes compare and contrast on theories relating to substance and property?

2. Describe Kant's published life.

3. Describe phenomena and noumena.

4. Describe Kant's career as a professor.

5. How did Kant react to the arguments from Hume and Leibniz?

6. What was Leibniz's argument about reason?

7. Describe Kant's fundamental question of metaphysics.

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

9. Why is Descartes' "certain knowledge" a problem?

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

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