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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II: Chapter 6, Degrees of Testability.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What method does Popper say applies to science and is important to the theory of knowledge?
(a) Resolving contradictions.
(b) Understanding statements.
(c) Proving theories.
(d) Learning assumptions.

2. What does Popper consider existential statements to be?
(a) Tautological.
(b) Concrete.
(c) Logical.
(d) Metaphysical.

3. What happens if there is on falsifiable information?
(a) Learning does not occur.
(b) Experiments fail.
(c) Conventionalism is proven.
(d) Learning occurs.

4. What does Popper think about statements in which individuals names do not occur?
(a) They are logical.
(b) They are not logical.
(c) They are metaphysical.
(d) They are tautological.

5. According to conventionalists, what will yields more complete results of science?
(a) Experimentation.
(b) Inferences.
(c) Logical constructions of nature.
(d) Greater mastery.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is complimentary to the degree of falsifiability?

2. What does the first rule of logic do?

3. What does Popper use to check his investigations?

4. What is one characteristic of the relationship between theory and classes of statements that must be present?

5. How does logic serve in determining if a statement is testable?

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