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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. Also referred to as singular statements, what are subsets of events?
(a) Occurrences.
(b) Post events.
(c) Situations.
(d) Sub-events.

2. How does deductive reasoning begin?
(a) Premise of induction.
(b) Premise of logic.
(c) Premise of testability.
(d) Premise of falsifiability.

3. What does Popper consider existential statements to be?
(a) Tautological.
(b) Concrete.
(c) Metaphysical.
(d) Logical.

4. What type of hypotheses does Popper warn against?
(a) Proven hypotheses.
(b) Initial hypotheses.
(c) Auxiliary hypotheses.
(d) Universal hypotheses.

5. Statements that rule things out rather than include more things are considered what type of statements?
(a) Tautological.
(b) Falsifiable.
(c) Universal.
(d) Singular.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Popper consider to contribute to the cosmology of empirical science?

2. What does Popper fear philosophers will think about methodological investigations?

3. How many conditions must a statement satisfy in order to be falsifiable?

4. What is one characteristic of the relationship between theory and classes of statements that must be present?

5. What must a philosopher do to accept Poppers proposed definition of science?

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