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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of reasoning does Popper deny exists?
(a) Testable.
(b) Scientific.
(c) Inductive.
(d) Deductive.

2. What type of reasoning does Popper believe inductive reasoning is?
(a) Philosophical.
(b) Metaphysical.
(c) Scientific.
(d) Rational.

3. What deductive tests determine if a theory is a scientific advance?
(a) Internal consistency.
(b) Empirical applications.
(c) Investigations.
(d) Comparing theories.

4. What does Popper consider to contribute to the cosmology of empirical science?
(a) Linguistic puzzles.
(b) Metaphysical and philosophical ideas.
(c) Questions of fact.
(d) Inductive frameworks.

5. What does Menger say about definitions?
(a) They are based on observations.
(b) They are fruitful.
(c) They serve science well.
(d) They are dogmas.

6. What does Popper fear philosophers will think about methodological investigations?
(a) They contradict years of thought.
(b) They do not belong to philosophy.
(c) There is no substance in them.
(d) They do not work.

7. What view does Popper take to analyze scientific thinking?
(a) Philosophical.
(b) Linguistic.
(c) Epistemology.
(d) Metaphysical.

8. How do conventionalists view Poppers beliefs on the underpinnings of new discoveries?
(a) A collapse of science.
(b) Good judgment.
(c) Unwarranted.
(d) Logical.

9. What can observation do for science?
(a) Justify statements.
(b) Assume falsification.
(c) Establish the truth of a statement.
(d) Provide information on facts.

10. What does Popper use to check his investigations?
(a) Universal statements.
(b) Assumptions.
(c) Testability.
(d) Mathematics.

11. What must a philosopher do to accept Poppers proposed definition of science?
(a) Read his background theories.
(b) Understand empirical science.
(c) Accept the consequences.
(d) Agree with its constructs.

12. Popper feels the principle of causality is not falsifiable and therefore regards it as what?
(a) Physical.
(b) Empirical.
(c) Metaphysical.
(d) Tautological.

13. What is one approach to knowledge considered by Popper?
(a) Purposive.
(b) Inductive.
(c) Common sense.
(d) Accidental.

14. In order to be true statements of science, what characteristic must these statements have?
(a) They are logical.
(b) They are objectively testable.
(c) They have been tested.
(d) They are proven.

15. From what does methodological rule differ?
(a) Rules of sustainability.
(b) Rules of science.
(c) Rules of truth.
(d) Rules of logic.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the reason Popper rejects psychologism?

2. What does Popper admit is a problem with scientific investigations?

3. What happens if there is on falsifiable information?

4. What type of rule do positivists and reductionists adhere to, according to Popper?

5. With what does psychologism concern itself?

(see the answer keys)

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