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

2. Despite being dedicated to reason, which of the following described Kant?
(a) Superstitious.
(b) Unintelligent.
(c) Religious.
(d) Illogical.

3. What did Kant compare the knowledge of a soul to?
(a) Substance.
(b) Noumena.
(c) Phenomena.
(d) Property.

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

5. What did "Critique of Judgment" deal with?
(a) Aesthetics.
(b) Logic.
(c) Ethics.
(d) Religion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of truth is "a square has four sides"?

2. For Hume to believe something, what did he need?

3. Whose philosophies did Kant revive in the distinction between practical and theoretical knowledge?

4. Which of the following statements about Kant is true?

5. What was the occupation of Kant's father?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What was Leibniz's argument about reason?

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

4. Describe Kant's categories of metaphysics.

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

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

7. Why aren't Kant's arguments about the unity of apperception sound?

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

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

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

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