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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 challenges Poppers use of falsification as criteria in deciding is a theoretical system is empirical?
(a) Construction of Nature.
(b) Competence.
(c) Theoretical experiments.
(d) Conventionalism.

2. What is a precondition for rational consideration?
(a) Justification.
(b) Falsification.
(c) Objectivity.
(d) Subjectivity.

3. According to conventionalism, what is required to make determinations of the natural world?
(a) Theories.
(b) Inferences.
(c) Laws.
(d) Proofs.

4. What confuses the distinction between universal and individual names?
(a) Symbolic logic.
(b) Negative statements.
(c) Theoretical statements.
(d) Existential statements.

5. What does Popper suggest is not psychological?
(a) Objectivism.
(b) Subjectivism.
(c) Existentialism.
(d) Observability.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Popper negate positivist notions regarding the meaninglessness of certain scientific statements?

2. What does Popper say about the number of possible events with regard to testability?

3. What does Popper use to check his investigations?

4. Where does information about precision come from?

5. How must scientific statements be tested?

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