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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. How does Popper negate positivist notions regarding the meaninglessness of certain scientific statements?
(a) Including synthetic statements.
(b) Including abstract statements.
(c) Conducting empirical research.
(d) Failing to justify statements.

2. How does logic serve in determining if a statement is testable?
(a) It sets up criteria.
(b) It creates provability.
(c) It creates understanding.
(d) It does nothing.

3. How many conditions must a statement satisfy in order to be falsifiable?
(a) 4.
(b) 5.
(c) 3.
(d) 2.

4. What ties down fundamental ideas?
(a) Rules.
(b) Contradictions.
(c) Conventions.
(d) Constructs.

5. Natural laws are in a form to negate what type of statements?
(a) Universal.
(b) Singular.
(c) Proven.
(d) Existential.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the principle of causality say about all events?

2. According to conventionalism, what is required to make determinations of the natural world?

3. What depends on both universal and singular statements?

4. What can observation do for science?

5. What does Popper states the "game of science" is?

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