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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. Which of the following is an example of antinomy?

2. Which type of argument about religion did Kant believe had little weight?

3. What are physic-theological arguments?

4. Which of the following statements about predicates is not true?

5. What statement sums up Descartes' certain piece of knowledge?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Leibniz's argument about reason?

2. What is objective knowledge?

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

4. Why was Kant considered to be eccentric?

5. Describe Kant's view of religious arguments.

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

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

8. Describe Kant's categories of metaphysics.

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How can beauty be both subjective and objective, according to Kant?

Essay Topic 2

Why was Kant considered to be so eccentric? What were his thoughts and reasons on the subject?

Essay Topic 3

What are aesthetics? Why are aesthetics important to philosophy? How do people perceive beauty, according to Kant?

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