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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 involves considering the number of favorable cases divided by the number of possible cases?
(a) Numerical probability.
(b) Abstract probability.
(c) Concrete probability.
(d) Non-numerical probability.

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

3. The success of a theory is base on what comparison?
(a) To the singular statements.
(b) To the experimental justification.
(c) To the scientist's point of view.
(d) To other theories.

4. What does Popper call his probability theory?
(a) Modified frequency theory.
(b) Objective frequency theory.
(c) Normative frequency theory.
(d) Subjective frequency theory.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Popper feel is a fruitless exercise?

2. What are hypothetical estimates of frequency?

3. How must scientific statements be tested?

4. How does Popper investigate the chain of logical reasoning?

5. What depends on both universal and singular statements?

(see the answer key)

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