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Question 1
According to Kant, what is required is a ____________approach,a full enquiry regarding our reasoning powers is to be found.
A. dogmatic
B. blind
C. critical
D. vague
Question 2
Aposteriori knowledge is that obtained from experience,____________ knowledge is that which is obtained independently of experience.
A. apriori
B. empirical
C. synthetic
D. subjective
Question 3
Thoughts without _____________ are empty; intuitions without concepts are blind
A. concepts
B. content
C. time
D. capacity
Question 4
The capacity to obtain representation through the mode in which we are affected by objects is called _____________________
A. sensibility
B. objectivity
C. subjectivity
D. void
Question 5
_______________ and time are forms of intuition.a) Intuition b) Form c) Extension d) Analytic
A. object
B. difference
C. subject
D. space
Question 6
Through ____________________ intuitions acquire its object.
A. transformation
B. sensation
C. hindrance
D. inference
Question 7
The given sensations as such constitute a ________________ as objects in space theyare already ordered.
A. manifold
B. distinct
C. cause
D. theme
Question 8
Our intuition of____________ moments in time account for number sense and intuition of space accounts for geometrical knowledge.
A. certainty
B. abstract
C. appearance
D. illusion
Question 9
The judgements of experience based upon experience is called __________ judgements Aposteriori
A. synthetic
B. analytic
C. infinite
D. apriori
Question 10
Sensibility is spoken as the source of objects and ____________a) Remote b) Transcendental c) Variety d) Property
A. intuitions
B. random
C. judgements
D. understanding
Question 11
Sensation is that knowledge which causes it to be called ___________knowledge
A. aposteriori
B. analytic
C. redundant
D. apriori
Question 12
_______________ is not an empirical concept which has been derived from externalexperience
A. solidity
B. space
C. color
D. property
Question 13
Space is represented as an ______________ quantity
A. finite
B. infinite
C. restricted
D. limited
Question 14
Time is a necessary representation in which all _______________ depend
A. errors
B. intuition
C. confusion
D. necessary
Question 15
The term intuition for Kant designates both a kind of ______________and the process by which subjects acquire them.
A. hindrance
B. representation
C. infinite
D. understanding
Question 16
Appearances; so far as they are thought as objects under the unity of the categories, are called _______________
A. apriori
B. analytic
C. phenomena
D. infinite
Question 17
A system of apriori principles for correct employment of certain faculty of knowledge is called ___________
A. organon
B. catharticon
C. canon
D. transcendental
Question 18
It is impossible to imagine the absence of space, though it is possible to imagine it asexisting without ________ to fill it.
A. directions
B. functions
C. emotions
D. objects
Question 19
Space being a necessary __________ , objects can be apprehended in and through it.
A. apriori
B. aposteriori
C. object
D. limit
Question 20
Form of appearance is apriori, it can be given in the mind prior to the actual_________
A. emotions
B. perceptions
C. illusion
D. statement
Question 21
From the synthetic character of geometrical propositions , Kant argues that spacemust be ________________ intuition
A. linear
B. geometrical
C. higher
D. lower
Question 22
Space and time are determined solely by our pure sensibility, and sensation by our____________ sensibility
A. automatic
B. spiritual
C. linguistic
D. empirical
Question 23
Pure Intuition contain only the ___________ under which something is intuited
A. object
B. form
C. senses
D. life
Question 24
Sensuous intuition it is stated, is the mode in which we are_________ by objects.
A. devoid
B. affected
C. converse
D. form
Question 25
For Kant,Aesthetic is the science of rules of ____________ in general.
A. logic
B. beauty
C. understanding
D. sensibility
Question 26
No knowledge of things in themselves could be acquired either through the forms ofspace and time or through ______________.
A. reflection
B. association
C. sensation
D. multiplicity
Question 27
According to Kant, even if cognition starts with experience but it does not mean it____________ from it.
A. ends
B. hide
C. arises
D. restricts
Question 28
The knowledge, content of which includes nothing__________ is pure aprioriknowledge.
A. spiritual
B. basic
C. void
D. empirical
Question 29
It is ___________apriori which makes the possibility of any science.
A. synthetic
B. analytic
C. basic
D. dogmatic
Question 30
Foundations for certainity of modern science and the possibility of human _________is being laid in the critique of pure reason.
A. ego
B. violence
C. freedom
D. emotions
Question 31
Kant classified judgements as __________and synthetic.
A. aposteriori
B. analytic
C. sound
D. different
Question 32
It is the faculty of understanding which organizes experiences into concepts such as_____________ which forms the principle of natural science.
A. causation
B. freedom
C. intuition
D. spirit
Question 33
___________ is the product of sensibility
A. concept
B. soul
C. intuition
D. understanding
Question 34
Natural __________ contains within itself synthetic apriori judgements as principles.
A. habits
B. reference
C. science
D. life
Question 35
The “Doctrine of the elements” is in turn divided into two main parts, theTranscendental __________ and Transcendental Logic
A. science
B. aesthetic
C. sensibility
D. reference
Question 36
The transcendental analytic is divided in to analytic of concepts and analytic of______________
A. principles
B. objects
C. opposites
D. causation
Question 37
Organising data both pure and empirical, making it intelligible based upon a conceptual scheme is the function of _____________.
A. data
B. content
C. sensibility
D. understanding
Question 38
Intuition and concepts constitute therefore, the __________of all our knowledge
A. reflection
B. elements
C. summary
D. appearance
Question 39
Space is not an ____________concept that is derived from experiences
A. empirical
B. spiritual
C. reflective
D. distinct
Question 40
__________of appearance is apriori, it can be given in the mind prior to the actualperceptions
A. limit
B. form
C. determination
D. comprehension
Question 41
Space comprehends all things that appear to us externally but not things in___________
A. themselves
B. comprehension
C. formation
D. subject
Question 42
Time is apriori in which the ____________of appearances is possible,even if appearances are removed still time remains.
A. necessity
B. scattering
C. actuality
D. opposition
Question 43
For Kant neither rationalism nor ____________ provides satisfactory account of the relation of the intellect and the senses
A. naturalism
B. empiricism
C. dogmatism
D. perspectivism
Question 44
Kant’s epistemological theory of knowledge is called Transcendental ___________
A. idealism
B. realism
C. naturalism
D. hedonism
Question 45
__________ is a necessary condition of all formal experience.
A. objects
B. ground
C. principle
D. time
Question 46
In Transcendental aesthetic a firm foundation is provided for ______________
A. spirit
B. dialectics
C. mathematics
D. ethics
Question 47
Kant acknowledged that it was _________ who aroused him from Dogmatic Slumber
A. berkeley
B. francis bacon
C. aristotle
D. david hume
Question 48
Undetermined object of empirical cognition is called ____________
A. appearance
B. dialectic
C. categories
D. noumena
Question 49
The faculty for bringing forth representation or spontaneity of cognition is ___________
A. appearance
B. understanding
C. aesthetics
D. psychology
Question 50
Transcendental analytic is part of Transcendental ___________
A. dialectic
B. reflection
C. logic
D. truth
Question 51
___________ logic of understanding contains rules for correctly thinking about certain kinds of objects.
A. special
B. general
C. simple
D. complex
Question 52
In every human cognition understanding is a cognition through __________, not intuitive but discursive.
A. logic
B. concepts
C. memory
D. choice
Question 53
Totality is combination of Plurality and __________
A. infinity
B. unity
C. negation
D. limitation
Question 54
Kant calls the permanence of real in time as ___________
A. causality
B. reference
C. negation
D. substance
Question 55
The spontaneous power to think of objects through concepts is ___________
A. understanding
B. explanation
C. sensibility
D. contradiction
Question 56
Without the help by sensibility, understanding cannot provide us with ______________
A. infinity
B. synthetic knowledge
C. intuitions
D. explanation
Question 57
The apriori principles of understanding together with sensibility are the first principles of _________________
A. ethics
B. language
C. natural science
D. pragmatism
Question 58
The distinction between the world of sense and the world of understanding wasregarded as two different ___________ abilities of the human mind.
A. cognitive
B. speculative
C. aesthetic
D. doubtful
Question 59
All objects of the senses are in time and necessarily stand in time ___________
A. constant
B. relations
C. patterns
D. design
Question 60
Space is the ground of all ________ intuitions
A. simple
B. similar
C. wider
D. outer
Question 61
What we call outer objects are mere ___________ of our sensibility
A. organization
B. representation
C. group
D. class
Question 62
All judgements are functions of __________ among representations, where many possible cognitions are drawn in to one.
A. separation
B. difference
C. unity
D. opposition
Question 63
Concepts originate in understanding and is __________rather than empirical.
A. complex
B. impure
C. aposteriori
D. pure
Question 64
Understanding makes use of __________ by judging by means of them.
A. concepts
B. contradictions
C. mistakes
D. errors
Question 65
The completeness of the system keeps all pieces of __________ fitting in to one system
A. matter
B. understanding
C. logic
D. cognitions
Question 66
In every human cognition understanding is a cognition through concepts, not intuitive but ___________.
A. special
B. introspection
C. discursive
D. cognitive
Question 67
Only through __________of pure apriori intuitions of space and time, transcendentalsubject receive representations of objects and these affect concept of objects.
A. similarity
B. manifold
C. hidden
D. compulsion
Question 68
Aristotles theory of categories is based on _____________
A. error
B. syntax
C. choice
D. semantics
Question 69
It is through intuitions of space and time we can have knowledge of ___________
A. noumena
B. mathematics
C. spirit
D. soul
Question 70
Through _________ the object is given as appearance, and concept through which an
A. representation
B. noumena
C. tolerance
D. soul
Question 71
Effect does not come along with the cause instead it is ___________ through it andfollows from it.
A. separated
B. posited
C. distinct
D. taken
Question 72
All categories are grounded in logical function of __________
A. judgement
B. objects
C. reflection
D. causality
Question 73
The unity through which the manifold given in an intuition is united in a concept of the object is called Transcendental unity of ___________________
A. perception
B. content
C. apperception
D. intuition
Question 74
The fundamental sources from which cognition arises are in the first part the object isgiven to us and later the object is thought in relation to ____________.
A. certainity
B. representation
C. sensible
D. divine
Question 75
Just like we order the outer sense in space, we order the determination of inner sense in appearance of __________
A. beauty
B. exterior
C. time
D. physical
Question 76
In order to cognise oneself one needs in addition to thought of oneself, an intuition of the ____________ in him, through which he determine this thought.
A. emotions
B. manifold
C. entity
D. conflicts
Question 77
The composition of the manifold of empirical intuition through which perception becomes possible is synthesis of ______________
A. opinion
B. apprehension
C. perception
D. emotions
Question 78
Appearances are only representations of things that exist, without cognition of what theymight be in _____________
A. perception
B. difference
C. themselves
D. essence
Question 79
It is through imagination that manifold of sensible intuitions gets _____________
A. disconnected
B. connected
C. cancelled
D. cohere
Question 80
It can be stated that no apriori cognition is possible without objects of __________
A. possible experience
B. impossible experience
C. spirit
D. hidden experience
Question 81
We cannot say that experience makes the concepts, instead categories are____________concepts independent of experience
A. aposteriori
B. apriori
C. hidden
D. complex
Question 82
It is the apriori elements of _____________ which is the concern of Aesthetic
A. sensitivity
B. coherence
C. sensibility
D. determination
Question 83
Kant defines experience as whatever is given in _____________intuition
A. sensible
B. complicated
C. transformative
D. insensible
Question 84
When logic is restricted to certain kind of objects it is ____________ logic
A. complicated
B. special
C. invalid
D. transcendental
Question 85
Schema is like a mental diagram or ___________.
A. illusion
B. dream
C. pattern
D. irregularity
Question 86
The apriori principles of understanding together with ___________are the first principlesof Natural science.
A. ethics
B. sensibility
C. illusion
D. enquiry
Question 87
Receptivity of our mind to receive representations in so far we are affected in some wayis called _____________
A. intellect
B. soul
C. spirit
D. sensibility
Question 88
According to Kant, ____________ is “the absolutely necessary rules of thinking, withoutwhich no use of the understanding takes place”
A. general logic
B. psychology
C. predicate logic
D. special logic