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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 helps to realign or redefine accepted theory?
(a) Positive justification.
(b) Deductive consequences.
(c) Positive theory results.
(d) Falsification feedback.

2. What is diametrically opposed to the critical attitude required of a scientist?
(a) Demarcation.
(b) Dogmatic defense.
(c) Experimentation.
(d) Epistemology.

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

4. What does Popper fear philosophers will think about methodological investigations?
(a) There is no substance in them.
(b) They do not work.
(c) They contradict years of thought.
(d) They do not belong to philosophy.

5. What does Popper states the "game of science" is?
(a) A principle.
(b) An ultimate truth.
(c) A farce.
(d) A concept.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of classes are singled out and can not be subject to the rigors of scientific empirical scrutiny?

2. To what does Popper equate critical thinking?

3. What refers to a term that does not need a definition but is learned through experience?

4. How does logic serve in determining if a statement is testable?

5. What does Popper think about statements in which individuals names do not occur?

(see the answer key)

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