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Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics

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Second Part, Sections 14–26

Second Part, Sections 27–39

Third Part, Sections 40–49

Third Part, Sections 50–56

Conclusion

Solution

Appendices

Kant's Tables of Categories

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Which of the following is not a rationalist metaphysician?

(A) Rene Descartes

(B) David Hume

(D) Christian Wolff

Which of the following is true of the metaphysics that precedes Kant?

(A) It is scientific

(B) It is based on observation and experiment

(D) It is based on a number of universally agreed-upon conclusions

What is the definition of an analytic judgment?

(A) A judgment we learn prior to experience.

(B) A judgment we learn from experience.

(D) A judgment whose predicate is not contained within the concept of the subject.

What kind of statement is "all swans are white"?

(A) Analytic a priori

(B) Synthetic a priori

(D) Synthetic a posteriori

What kind of statement is "all bachelors are unmarried"?

(A) Analytic a priori

(B) Synthetic a priori

(D) Synthetic a posteriori

What kind of statement is "7 + 5 = 12"?

(A) Analytic a priori

(B) Synthetic a priori

(D) Synthetic a posteriori

Which of the following is NOT at least potentially a body of synthetic a priori judgments?

(A) Mathematics

(B) Pure natural science

(D) Metaphysics

What discipline deals with our pure intuition of space?

(A) Arithmetic

(B) Physics

(D) Logic

What discipline deals with our pure intuition of time?

(A) Arithmetic

(B) Physics

(D) Logic

What am I seeing when I see my brown cat?

(A) A pure intuition

(B) An appearance

(D) A spatial relation between objects

Which of the following is true of judgments of perception?

(A) They are universal

(B) They are a priori

(D) They are held together by pure concepts of the understanding

Which of the following (according to the logical table of judgments) is a judgment as to modality?

(A) "Universal"

(B) "Affirmative"

(D) "Apodeictic"

Which of the following (according to the transcendental table of the pure concepts of the understanding) is a concept as to quantity?

(A) "Totality"

(B) "Negation"

(D) "Existence"

Which of the following claims of Hume's does Kant NOT agree with?

(A) We cannot discover the law of cause and effect by means of pure reason

(B) We cannot discover the law of cause and effect in experience

(D) We do not have a priori knowledge of the nature of God or the universe

Which of the following is NOT a part of what Kant calls "nature"?

(A) Things in themselves

(B) Sensations

(D) Pure concepts of the understanding

Which of the following is not a category for the ideas of reason?

(A) Psychological

(B) Cosmological

(D) Metaphysical

Who is the main target of criticism in the third part?

(A) British Empiricists

(B) Rationalist Metaphysicians

(D) Platonic Idealists

What can reason teach us about the nature of the soul?

(A) It is immortal

(B) It is indivisible

(D) Reason can't teach us anything about the nature of the soul

Which faculty helps us sort out causal relations?

(A) Sensibility

(B) Understanding

(D) None of the above

Which of the following claims is not part of one of the four antinomies listed under cosmological ideas?

(A) "Both space and time are infinite."

(B) "Humans can act according to their own free will."

(D) "All matter is made up of simple parts."

Which of the following is attributable to things in themselves?

(A) Space

(B) Causality

(D) Necessity

Which of the following fields is "bounded"?

(A) Physics

(B) Math

(D) Psychology

Which of the following questions is the sort that might be investigated by Kant's "critical" metaphysics?

(A) "Is there a God?"

(B) "How many pure concepts of the understanding are there?"

(D) "How many stars are there in the Milky Way?"

Which of the following is true of "critical" metaphysics?

(A) It contains synthetic a priori judgments.

(B) It relies on common sense.

(D) It investigates the nature of things in themselves.

Who does Kant take as an example of a "dogmatic idealist"?

(A) Hume

(B) Descartes

(D) Berkeley

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