Quiz: Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics

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

1. 1. In Kant’s image, where did Hume run the ship of metaphysics ashore?

   On common sense On dogmatism On mathematics On scepticism
2. 2. According to Kant, what did Hume’s opponents appeal to instead of answering his problem?

   The authority of Aristotle Revelation Common sense Mathematical demonstration
3. 3. How can nature and freedom both be attributed to the same thing without contradiction?

   Freedom applies to animals, natural necessity to human beings Freedom is only an illusion produced by natural causes Nature applies to it before birth, and freedom after As phenomenon it is natural, as thing in itself free
4. 4. How does Kant’s solution to Hume’s problem reverse Hume’s procedure?

   It derives experience from the pure concepts, not the concepts from experience It derives the categories from Aristotle It derives mathematics from experience It derives the concept of cause from custom and repetition, as Hume himself had done
5. 5. Until when are metaphysicians “suspended from their occupations”?

   Until they answer how synthetic cognitions a priori are possible Until the Academy awards a prize Until they publish a complete system Until they refute Hume
6. 6. How does Kant resolve the first two (mathematical) antinomies?

   They are left undecided Both are true in different senses Both thesis and antithesis are false The thesis is true and the antithesis false
7. 7. In whose work does Kant find “an indication” of his division of judgments?

   Euclid’s Elements Locke’s Essay Hume’s Treatise Leibniz’s Monadology
8. 8. What does Kant say can be proved about the permanence of the soul?

   Its permanence after death Its simplicity and immortality Nothing at all, even in life Only its permanence during life
9. 9. What does Kant say metaphysics lacks, compared with geometry?

   A definite subject matter of its own A book that is the science itself Any analytical judgments of its own Students and teachers willing to study it
10. 10. What does Kant’s example “Gold is a yellow metal” illustrate?

    A synthetical judgment a priori An analytical judgment, a priori though its concepts are empirical A synthetical judgment a posteriori, learned by assaying samples of gold A judgment of perception