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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 comprises empirical science?
(a) Natural laws.
(b) Guides to explanations.
(c) Systems of theories.
(d) Universal assumptions.

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

3. What is not to be expected of methodology?
(a) Logical constructs.
(b) Profound truths.
(c) Proven theories.
(d) False data.

4. What confuses the distinction between universal and individual names?
(a) Symbolic logic.
(b) Theoretical statements.
(c) Existential statements.
(d) Negative statements.

5. What should the rules of epistemology adhere to?
(a) Logic.
(b) Scientific theory.
(c) Psychology.
(d) Demarcation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when theories are refined?

2. Demarcation is based on what definition of Popper's?

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

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

5. How does Popper investigate the chain of logical reasoning?

(see the answer key)

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