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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Hume, what can reason tell us about?

2. What did Kant become after attending school?

3. According to Hume, what does all knowledge come through?

4. What philosophical school did Hume belong to?

5. What food was used as an example to imply the unchanged existence of some medium?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is apperception?

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

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

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

5. Why was Kant considered to be eccentric?

6. Describe Kant's time in school.

7. What did Kant think about marriage?

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

9. Describe Kant's categories of metaphysics.

10. What was the effect of Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe Kant's early life. Why was it rare for him to attend school? Describe the quality of his education.

Essay Topic 2

Describe Kant's opinions about religion. Which theory did he find most attractive, and why? Why did Kant want to prove that the soul existed? How did he show flaws in religious arguments?

Essay Topic 3

Describe Kant's fundamental question of metaphysics. What was Kant's subjective argument? What was his objective argument?

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