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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. For what purpose are methodological rules developed?
(a) Wholly prove demarcation.
(b) Protect demarcation.
(c) Question demarcation.
(d) Falsity demarcation.

2. What holds the fate of a theory?
(a) Point of view.
(b) Decisions.
(c) Justifications.
(d) Other theories.

3. The success of a theory is base on what comparison?
(a) To the experimental justification.
(b) To the singular statements.
(c) To the scientist's point of view.
(d) To other theories.

4. What guides a scientific experiment?
(a) Inductive reasoning.
(b) Logic.
(c) Deductive reasoning.
(d) Theory.

5. From what does a theoretical system arise?
(a) Conventions.
(b) Contradictions.
(c) Universal statements.
(d) Axioms.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to conventionalism, what is required to make determinations of the natural world?

2. What do the constructions of the laws of nature determine?

3. Who view natural science as a logical construction of nature?

4. What term does Popper use of empirical science?

5. What type of hypotheses does Popper warn against?

(see the answer key)

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