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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. In what year was Kant born?
(a) 1820.
(b) 1724.
(c) 1767.
(d) 1712.

2. For Kant to have had any possibility of objective knowledge, what must have been true?
(a) Phenomena and properties must have been casually related.
(b) Phenomena and noumena must have been closely related.
(c) Phenomena and noumena must have been casually related.
(d) Phenomena and substance must have been casually related.

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

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

5. What is cosmology?
(a) The study of people.
(b) The study of the soul.
(c) The study of God.
(d) The study of the universe.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is true about the statement of "Fido has brown spots"?

2. According to Kant, what does the notion of change imply?

3. How old was Kant when "Critique of Pure Reason" was published?

4. What are the statements "Fido is on the couch" and "Fido is not on the couch" examples of?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. According to Hume, what is needed to believe or understand something?

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

3. What are Kant's categories of thought?

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

5. What is objective knowledge?

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

7. Why was Kant considered to be eccentric?

8. Describe phenomena and noumena.

9. Describe the ontological religious argument.

10. Why did the second version of "Critique of Pure Reason" fail?

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