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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 the ontological argument, why does God exist?
(a) A creator of the world must exist.
(b) Perfection only exists in one entity.
(c) Existence is a perfection.
(d) Existence warrants perfection.

2. What are the statements "Fido is on the couch" and "Fido is not on the couch" examples of?
(a) Cosmology.
(b) Antinomy.
(c) Property.
(d) Substance.

3. According to Kant, what does identity imply?
(a) Substance.
(b) Causality.
(c) Reality.
(d) Rationality.

4. How many times did Kant come close to marriage?
(a) 1.
(b) 4.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.

5. What do all religious arguments collapse into, according to Kant?
(a) Ontological arguments.
(b) Cosmological arguments.
(c) Arguments from design.
(d) Historical arguments.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the category for something considered to be trivially true?

2. When did Kant die?

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

4. When beginning an argument, what did Kant appeal to?

5. What type of truth is one that is known before any experience?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe phenomena and noumena.

2. What is objective knowledge?

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

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

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

6. Describe the purpose of Kant's subjective argument.

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

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

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

10. Describe Kant's categories of metaphysics.

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