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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 does Popper suggest is the result of using logic to justify a statement?
(a) Theories.
(b) More problems.
(c) A loop that logic cannot escape.
(d) A solution.

2. What does Popper fear philosophers will think about methodological investigations?
(a) They do not work.
(b) There is no substance in them.
(c) They contradict years of thought.
(d) They do not belong to philosophy.

3. Who view natural science as a logical construction of nature?
(a) Experimenters.
(b) Theorists.
(c) Realists.
(d) Conventionalists.

4. How do conventionalists view Poppers beliefs on the underpinnings of new discoveries?
(a) Unwarranted.
(b) Good judgment.
(c) A collapse of science.
(d) Logical.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What depends on both universal and singular statements?

2. What type of reasoning does Popper deny exists?

3. What type of statement is deduced from universal statements?

4. What confuses the distinction between universal and individual names?

5. What does Popper say methodological rules are?

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