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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II: Chapter 4, Falsifiability.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What view does Popper take to analyze scientific thinking?
(a) Linguistic.
(b) Epistemology.
(c) Philosophical.
(d) Metaphysical.

2. What deductive tests determine if a theory is a scientific advance?
(a) Internal consistency.
(b) Comparing theories.
(c) Investigations.
(d) Empirical applications.

3. Popper feels the principle of causality is not falsifiable and therefore regards it as what?
(a) Physical.
(b) Tautological.
(c) Empirical.
(d) Metaphysical.

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

5. What depends on both universal and singular statements?
(a) Abstract thought.
(b) Logical factors.
(c) Causality.
(d) Correlations.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What term does Popper use of empirical science?

3. What happens when theories are refined?

4. What challenges Poppers use of falsification as criteria in deciding is a theoretical system is empirical?

5. What does Popper consider existential statements to be?

(see the answer key)

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