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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 deductive tests determine if a theory is a scientific advance?
(a) Empirical applications.
(b) Comparing theories.
(c) Internal consistency.
(d) Investigations.

2. What method does Popper say applies to science and is important to the theory of knowledge?
(a) Proving theories.
(b) Resolving contradictions.
(c) Learning assumptions.
(d) Understanding statements.

3. What happens when theories are refined?
(a) They become proven fact.
(b) Science prevails.
(c) They become better explanatory tools.
(d) They become obsolete.

4. What is diametrically opposed to the critical attitude required of a scientist?
(a) Demarcation.
(b) Epistemology.
(c) Dogmatic defense.
(d) Experimentation.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What allows for considerations of whether a theory is falsifiable?

2. How are theories used to explain the world?

3. Natural laws are in a form to negate what type of statements?

4. What does the first rule of logic do?

5. What are the boundaries of conditions?

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