Philosophy of Kant Multiple Choice Questions
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