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

2. What does Popper say about positivism?
(a) It is based on invalid assumptions.
(b) It is a clear way of thinking.
(c) It is based on scientific data.
(d) It is too narrow, limited, and misguided.

3. How does deductive reasoning begin?
(a) Premise of testability.
(b) Premise of logic.
(c) Premise of induction.
(d) Premise of falsifiability.

4. What depends on both universal and singular statements?
(a) Logical factors.
(b) Causality.
(c) Correlations.
(d) Abstract thought.

5. What is the reason Popper rejects psychologism?
(a) Perceptions do not allow for justifications.
(b) Perceptions are inter-subjective.
(c) Perceptions allow for justifications.
(d) Perceptions are inter-objective.

Short Answer Questions

1. What must be maintained in at each level of the experimental process?

2. What is the concept of simplicity a part of according to Popper?

3. With what does psychologism concern itself?

4. What can observation do for science?

5. What is diametrically opposed to the critical attitude required of a scientist?

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