Quiz: Critique of Pure Reason

15 questions drawn at random. Score 80% for a silver medal.

1. Which discipline, according to the Architectonic, alone among the rational sciences can be learned? Formal logic Moral philosophy Mathematics Metaphysics of nature
2. Which argument of rational psychology does Kant call its “Achilles”? That the soul is simple, since a thought cannot be divided among many substances That the soul is a person because it is conscious of its identity That the soul is a substance because it is always the subject and never a predicate That the outer world is doubtful because it is only inferred
3. Which of these is not one of the three questions in which Kant says all the interests of reason combine? What ought I to do? What can I know? What is man? What may I hope?
4. To whom does Kant dedicate the Critique of Pure Reason? King Frederick II of Prussia Baron von Zedlitz Moses Mendelssohn, his Berlin correspondent Johann Friedrich Hartknoch, his publisher
5. How does Kant distinguish a schema from an image? A general word or sign that stands for a whole group of similar images An image of a thing in itself A procedure for producing images in accordance with a concept A faint copy of an image, retained in memory after the perception fades
6. How does Kant answer Mendelssohn's proof that a simple soul cannot cease to exist? Immortality can be proved only from the existence of God Even a simple being has an intensive degree of reality that can fade away to nothing The soul is composite and so can be dissolved into its parts There must be a moment between being and not-being, in which the simple soul could suddenly vanish
7. Kant says he found it necessary to deny knowledge in order to make room for what? Mathematics Faith Scepticism Experience
8. What does Kant's cinnabar example show? Colours are secondary qualities that exist only in the perceiving mind Natural kinds are fixed by God Weight cannot be perceived directly, only inferred from its effects Association presupposes that appearances themselves follow rules
9. According to Kant, which science alone has definitions in the strict sense? Natural history Formal logic Metaphysics, as Wolff taught it Mathematics
10. What does Kant call “the battle-field of these endless controversies”? Natural science Theology Metaphysics Mathematics
11. What does Kant's example of rising from a chair illustrate in the third antinomy? An absolutely first beginning in causality, though not in time The beginning of the world in time, before which there was only empty time An infinite series of past states of the world leading up to the present moment The impossibility of any free action in a world governed by natural laws
12. How does Kant classify the proposition 7 + 5 = 12? Analytic a priori Analytic a posteriori Synthetic a posteriori Synthetic a priori
13. How does Kant respond to those who ridicule Plato's Republic as a visionary perfection? He says it should be judged only by the experience of actual states He defends its ideal of a constitution of the greatest freedom as a necessary idea, even if it may never be realised He agrees that it is a dream of an idle thinker with no use for legislators He argues that Plato's state already existed in ancient Sparta
14. In the first-edition Deduction, where does Kant say the order and regularity we call nature come from? They are copied from things in themselves They are implanted by God in a pre-established harmony We ourselves introduce them into appearances They are learned by induction from repeated cases
15. What follows, according to the Anticipations of Perception, from every reality having a degree? Bodies of equal volume must contain equal quantities of matter and weight Experience can never prove the existence of empty space All matter is made of indivisible atoms separated by empty space Heat is a kind of motion

0 of 15 answered