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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 Kant, what is essential to the development of an ethical theory?
(a) Existence of soul.
(b) Existence of phenomena.
(c) Existence of God.
(d) Existence of noumena.

2. What type of truth is "a square has four sides"?
(a) Synthetic.
(b) Irrational.
(c) Analytic.
(d) Rational.

3. Why does noumena serve a negative role in Kant's philosophy?
(a) Kant's system does not acknowledge the existence of noumena.
(b) It is logically impossible to know what role noumena play in phenomena.
(c) It is logically impossible to know what a thing is in itself.
(d) Noumena are generally negative objects.

4. Which of the following is true about the statement of "Fido has brown spots"?
(a) The sentence does not include a property.
(b) The act of having is a property.
(c) Brown is a property.
(d) Fido is a property.

5. 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) Descartes.
(d) Kant.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is described by something whose existence is not dependent upon anything else?

2. What can one assume if they consider the universe in its totality?

3. According to Kant's reply to religious arguments, what is not a predicate?

4. What did Kant say is a privileged place in perception?

5. What is theology?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe Kant's categories of metaphysics.

3. Describe Kant's time in school.

4. Describe Kant's published life.

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

6. Describe the ontological religious argument.

7. What did Hume argue about reason?

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

9. What was Leibniz's argument about reason?

10. What is the difference between a substance and a property? Give an example of each.

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