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

2. What is one characteristic of the relationship between theory and classes of statements that must be present?
(a) Auxiliary.
(b) Consistent.
(c) Abstract.
(d) Tautological,

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

4. What must be maintained in at each level of the experimental process?
(a) Auxiliary hypotheses.
(b) Systems of theories.
(c) Methods.
(d) Integrity of testability.

5. What must be identical to basic statements?
(a) Theories.
(b) Singular statements.
(c) Potential falsifiers.
(d) Universal statements.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do conventionalists view Poppers beliefs on the underpinnings of new discoveries?

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

3. Statements that rule things out rather than include more things are considered what type of statements?

4. Popper feels the principle of causality is not falsifiable and therefore regards it as what?

5. What type of reasoning, according to Popper, is not rational?

(see the answer key)

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