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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Natural Sciences.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Under what circumstances are theories accepted universally?
(a) When evidence is supported by interlocking theories.
(b) When experimental data can be confirmed.
(c) When a hypothesis explains phenomena.
(d) When a theory promises to explain phenomena.

2. What does science try to integrate, in Wilson's account?
(a) Systems of explaining phenomena.
(b) The history of science.
(c) The foundations of different sciences.
(d) Elements of systems.

3. What does science seek, in Wilson's account?
(a) Interesting hypotheses.
(b) The mind of God.
(c) Probably hypothesis.
(d) Objective truth based on hypothesis.

4. What two fields did Wilson connect in his theory of unified learning?
(a) Epistemology and religion.
(b) Philosophy and evolution.
(c) Classification and evolution.
(d) Evolution and genetics.

5. Where does the unification of intellectual work have its benefit, in Wilson's account?
(a) In politics.
(b) In environmental policy.
(c) In the future.
(d) In philosophy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What qualities of mind drove the techno-scientific age?

2. What event marks the end of the Enlightenment, in Wilson's account?

3. What does Wilson distinguish between?

4. What effect does Wilson say evolution had?

5. Einstein recognized what in his discoveries, in Wilson's account?

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