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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. What does Popper use to check his investigations?
(a) Universal statements.
(b) Mathematics.
(c) Assumptions.
(d) Testability.

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

3. What happens if there is on falsifiable information?
(a) Experiments fail.
(b) Conventionalism is proven.
(c) Learning occurs.
(d) Learning does not occur.

4. What increases with the amount of falsifiability?
(a) The level of research.
(b) The amount of information.
(c) The complexity of a study.
(d) The opportunity for error.

5. What is important to Popper's argument for a logic of science?
(a) Theories.
(b) Potential falsifiers.
(c) Singular statements.
(d) Universal statements.

Short Answer Questions

1. How are theories used to explain the world?

2. What is shown to be equal in issues relating to power of classes?

3. What type of rule do positivists and reductionists adhere to, according to Popper?

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

5. According to conventionalists, what will yields more complete results of science?

(see the answer key)

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