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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II: Chapter 8, Probability.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What plays a vitally important role in empirical science?
(a) Research.
(b) Probability.
(c) Simplicity.
(d) Inferences.

2. What does Popper state cannot be applied to a sequence of events?
(a) Scientific rules.
(b) Objective methods.
(c) Theory.
(d) Mathematical rules.

3. From what does a theoretical system arise?
(a) Contradictions.
(b) Axioms.
(c) Conventions.
(d) Universal statements.

4. What guides a scientific experiment?
(a) Inductive reasoning.
(b) Logic.
(c) Deductive reasoning.
(d) Theory.

5. What type of numerical interpretation requires that probabilities be only expressed as frequencies?
(a) Non-empirical.
(b) Subjective.
(c) Objective.
(d) Psychological.

Short Answer Questions

1. What involves considering the number of favorable cases divided by the number of possible cases?

2. What, according to von Mises, is derived from certain initial probabilities and distributions?

3. Popper rejects perceptions because they tie into what type of principles?

4. What is the reason Popper rejects psychologism?

5. What does Popper consider existential statements to be?

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