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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II: Chapter 5, The Problem of Empirical Basis.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What ties down fundamental ideas?
(a) Rules.
(b) Conventions.
(c) Constructs.
(d) Contradictions.

3. What does Popper suggest is not psychological?
(a) Subjectivism.
(b) Observability.
(c) Objectivism.
(d) Existentialism.

4. According to conventionalists, what will yields more complete results of science?
(a) Experimentation.
(b) Logical constructions of nature.
(c) Inferences.
(d) Greater mastery.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of rule do positivists and reductionists adhere to, according to Popper?

2. What does Menger say about definitions?

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

4. What is the reason Popper rejects psychologism?

5. How does deductive reasoning begin?

(see the answer key)

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