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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

Answer: C. critical

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

Answer: A. apriori

3. Thoughts without _____________ are empty; intuitions without concepts are blind
A. concepts

B. content

C. time

D. capacity

Answer: B. content

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

Answer: A. sensibility

5. _______________ and time are forms of intuition. a) Intuition b) Form c) Extension d) Analytic
A. object

B. difference

C. subject

D. space

Answer: D. space

6. Through ____________________ intuitions acquire its object.
A. transformation

B. sensation

C. hindrance

D. inference

Answer: B. sensation

7. The given sensations as such constitute a ________________ as objects in space they are already ordered.
A. manifold

B. distinct

C. cause

D. theme

Answer: A. manifold

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

Answer: D. illusion

9. The judgements of experience based upon experience is called __________ judgements Aposteriori
A. synthetic

B. analytic

C. infinite

D. apriori

Answer: A. synthetic

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

Answer: A. intuitions

11. Sensation is that knowledge which causes it to be called ___________knowledge
A. aposteriori

B. analytic

C. redundant

D. apriori

Answer: A. aposteriori

12. _______________ is not an empirical concept which has been derived from external experience
A. solidity

B. space

C. color

D. property

Answer: B. space

13. Space is represented as an ______________ quantity
A. finite

B. infinite

C. restricted

D. limited

Answer: B. infinite

14. Time is a necessary representation in which all _______________ depend
A. errors

B. intuition

C. confusion

D. necessary

Answer: B. intuition

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

Answer: B. representation

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

Answer: C. phenomena

17. A system of apriori principles for correct employment of certain faculty of knowledge is called ___________
A. organon

B. catharticon

C. canon

D. transcendental

Answer: C. canon

18. It is impossible to imagine the absence of space, though it is possible to imagine it as existing without ________ to fill it.
A. directions

B. functions

C. emotions

D. objects

Answer: D. objects

19. Space being a necessary __________ , objects can be apprehended in and through it.
A. apriori

B. aposteriori

C. object

D. limit

Answer: A. apriori

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

Answer: B. perceptions

21. From the synthetic character of geometrical propositions , Kant argues that space must be ________________ intuition
A. linear

B. geometrical

C. higher

D. lower

Answer: B. geometrical

22. Space and time are determined solely by our pure sensibility, and sensation by our ____________ sensibility
A. automatic

B. spiritual

C. linguistic

D. empirical

Answer: D. empirical

23. Pure Intuition contain only the ___________ under which something is intuited
A. object

B. form

C. senses

D. life

Answer: B. form

24. Sensuous intuition it is stated, is the mode in which we are_________ by objects.
A. devoid

B. affected

C. converse

D. form

Answer: B. affected

25. For Kant,Aesthetic is the science of rules of ____________ in general
A. logic

B. beauty

C. understanding

D. sensibility

Answer: D. sensibility

26. No knowledge of things in themselves could be acquired either through the forms of space and time or through ______________.
A. reflection

B. association

C. sensation

D. multiplicity

Answer: C. sensation

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

Answer: C. arises

28. The knowledge, content of which includes nothing__________ is pure apriori knowledge.
A. spiritual

B. basic

C. void

D. empirical

Answer: D. empirical

29. It is ___________apriori which makes the possibility of any science.
A. synthetic

B. analytic

C. basic

D. dogmatic

Answer: A. synthetic

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

Answer: C. freedom

31. Kant classified judgements as __________and synthetic.
A. aposteriori

B. analytic

C. sound

D. different

Answer: B. analytic

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

Answer: A. causation

33. ___________ is the product of sensibility
A. concept

B. soul

C. intuition

D. understanding

Answer: C. intuition

34. Natural __________ contains within itself synthetic apriori judgements as principles.
A. habits

B. reference

C. science

D. life

Answer: C. science

35. The “Doctrine of the elements” is in turn divided into two main parts, the Transcendental __________ and Transcendental Logic
A. science

B. aesthetic

C. sensibility

D. reference

Answer: B. aesthetic

36. The transcendental analytic is divided in to analytic of concepts and analytic of ______________
A. principles

B. objects

C. opposites

D. causation

Answer: A. principles

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

Answer: D. understanding

38. Intuition and concepts constitute therefore, the __________of all our knowledge
A. reflection

B. elements

C. summary

D. appearance

Answer: B. elements

39. Space is not an ____________concept that is derived from experiences
A. empirical

B. spiritual

C. reflective

D. distinct

Answer: A. empirical

40. __________of appearance is apriori, it can be given in the mind prior to the actual perceptions
A. limit

B. form

C. determination

D. comprehension

Answer: B. form

41. Space comprehends all things that appear to us externally but not things in ___________
A. themselves

B. comprehension

C. formation

D. subject

Answer: A. themselves

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

Answer: C. actuality

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

Answer: B. empiricism

44. Kant’s epistemological theory of knowledge is called Transcendental ___________
A. idealism

B. realism

C. naturalism

D. hedonism

Answer: A. idealism

45. __________ is a necessary condition of all formal experience.
A. objects

B. ground

C. principle

D. time

Answer: D. time

46. In Transcendental aesthetic a firm foundation is provided for ______________
A. spirit

B. dialectics

C. mathematics

D. ethics

Answer: C. mathematics

47. Kant acknowledged that it was _________ who aroused him from Dogmatic Slumber
A. berkeley

B. francis bacon

C. aristotle

D. david hume

Answer: D. david hume

48. Undetermined object of empirical cognition is called ____________
A. appearance

B. dialectic

C. categories

D. noumena

Answer: A. appearance

49. The faculty for bringing forth representation or spontaneity of cognition is ___________
A. appearance

B. understanding

C. aesthetics

D. psychology

Answer: B. understanding

50. Transcendental analytic is part of Transcendental ___________
A. dialectic

B. reflection

C. logic

D. truth

Answer: C. logic

51. ___________ logic of understanding contains rules for correctly thinking about certain kinds of objects.
A. special

B. general

C. simple

D. complex

Answer: A. special

52. In every human cognition understanding is a cognition through __________, not intuitive but discursive.
A. logic

B. concepts

C. memory

D. choice

Answer: B. concepts

53. Totality is combination of Plurality and __________
A. infinity

B. unity

C. negation

D. limitation

Answer: B. unity

54. Kant calls the permanence of real in time as ___________
A. causality

B. reference

C. negation

D. substance

Answer: D. substance
55. The spontaneous power to think of objects through concepts is ___________
A. understanding

B. explanation

C. sensibility

D. contradiction

Answer: A. understanding

56. Without the help by sensibility, understanding cannot provide us with ______________
A. infinity

B. synthetic knowledge

C. intuitions

D. explanation

Answer: B. synthetic knowledge
57. The apriori principles of understanding together with sensibility are the first principles of
_________________
A. ethics

B. language

C. natural science

D. pragmatism

Answer: C. natural science
58. The distinction between the world of sense and the world of understanding was
regarded as two different ___________ abilities of the human mind.
A. cognitive

B. speculative

C. aesthetic

D. doubtful

Answer: A. cognitive
59. All objects of the senses are in time and necessarily stand in time ___________
A. constant

B. relations

C. patterns

D. design

Answer: B. relations
60. Space is the ground of all ________ intuitions
A. simple

B. similar

C. wider

D. outer

Answer: D. outer

61. What we call outer objects are mere ___________ of our sensibility
A. organization

B. representation

C. group

D. class

Answer: B. representation
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

Answer: C. unity
63. Concepts originate in understanding and is __________rather than empirical.
A. complex

B. impure

C. aposteriori

D. pure

Answer: D. pure
64. Understanding makes use of __________ by judging by means of them.
A. concepts

B. contradictions

C. mistakes

D. errors

Answer: A. concepts
65. The completeness of the system keeps all pieces of __________ fitting in to one system
A. matter

B. understanding

C. logic

D. cognitions

Answer: D. cognitions
66. In every human cognition understanding is a cognition through concepts, not intuitive but
___________.
A. special

B. introspection

C. discursive

D. cognitive

Answer: C. discursive

67. Only through __________of pure apriori intuitions of space and time, transcendental
subject receive representations of objects and these affect concept of objects.
A. similarity

B. manifold

C. hidden

D. compulsion

Answer: B. manifold
68. Aristotles theory of categories is based on _____________
A. error

B. syntax

C. choice

D. semantics

Answer: D. semantics
69. It is through intuitions of space and time we can have knowledge of ___________
A. noumena

B. mathematics

C. spirit

D. soul

Answer: B. mathematics
70. Through _________ the object is given as appearance, and concept through which an
A. representation

B. noumena

C. tolerance

D. soul

Answer: C. tolerance
71. Effect does not come along with the cause instead it is ___________ through it and
follows from it.
A. separated

B. posited

C. distinct

D. taken

Answer: B. posited
72. All categories are grounded in logical function of __________
A. judgement

B. objects

C. reflection

D. causality

Answer: A. judgement

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

Answer: C. apperception
74. The fundamental sources from which cognition arises are in the first part the object is
given to us and later the object is thought in relation to ____________.
A. certainity

B. representation

C. sensible

D. divine

Answer: B. representation
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

Answer: C. time

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

Answer: B. manifold
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

Answer: B. apprehension
78. Appearances are only representations of things that exist, without cognition of what they
might be in _____________
A. perception

B. difference

C. themselves

D. essence

Answer: C. themselves
79. It is through imagination that manifold of sensible intuitions gets _____________
A. disconnected

B. connected

C. cancelled

D. cohere

Answer: B. connected
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

Answer: A. possible experience

81. We cannot say that experience makes the concepts, instead categories are
____________concepts independent of experience
A. aposteriori

B. apriori

C. hidden

D. complex

Answer: B. apriori
82. It is the apriori elements of _____________ which is the concern of Aesthetic
A. sensitivity

B. coherence

C. sensibility

D. determination

Answer: C. sensibility
83. Kant defines experience as whatever is given in _____________intuition
A. sensible

B. complicated

C. transformative

D. insensible

Answer: A. sensible
84. . When logic is restricted to certain kind of objects it is ____________ logic
A. complicated

B. special

C. invalid

D. transcendental

Answer: B. special
85. Schema is like a mental diagram or ___________.
A. illusion

B. dream

C. pattern

D. irregularity

Answer: C. pattern

86. The apriori principles of understanding together with ___________are the first principles of Natural science.
A. ethics

B. sensibility

C. illusion

D. enquiry

Answer: B. sensibility

87. Receptivity of our mind to receive representations in so far we are affected in some way is called _____________
A. intellect

B. soul

C. spirit

D. sensibility

Answer: D. sensibility

88. According to Kant, ____________ is “the absolutely necessary rules of thinking, without which no use of the understanding takes place”
A. general logic

B. psychology

C. predicate logic

D. special logic

Answer: A. general logic

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