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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II: Chapter 7, Simplicity.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Popper, what can't universals be reduced to?
(a) Dogmatism.
(b) A class of experiences.
(c) Psychologism.
(d) Infinite regress.

2. What does Popper feel is a fruitless exercise?
(a) Naming singular things.
(b) Naming logical things.
(c) Naming metaphysical things.
(d) Naming universal things.

3. What allows for considerations of whether a theory is falsifiable?
(a) Basic statements.
(b) Potential falsifiers.
(c) Universal statements.
(d) Theories.

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

5. What does the principle of causality say about all events?
(a) They must use previous assumptions.
(b) They can in inductively predicted.
(c) They must be falsifiable.
(d) They can be deductively predicted.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the fractions between 0 and 1 represent?

2. What term does Popper use of empirical science?

3. How are theories used to explain the world?

4. What does Popper equate simplicity with?

5. What does Popper refer to as complex in the highest degree?

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