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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 is used to capture and explain the world?
(a) Logical statements.
(b) Scientific data.
(c) Laws of nature.
(d) Theories.

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

3. What should guide the methods of testing scientific statements?
(a) Logic.
(b) Epistemology.
(c) Psychology.
(d) Physics.

4. What type of statement is deduced from universal statements?
(a) Singular.
(b) Logical.
(c) Assumed.
(d) True.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the first rule of logic do?

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

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

5. What does Popper say about positivism?

(see the answer key)

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