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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 many theorists, what gives meaning to classes of events?
(a) Class dimensions.
(b) Power.
(c) Subclass events.
(d) Testability.

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

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

4. What deductive tests compare conclusions?
(a) Empirical applications.
(b) Comparing theories.
(c) Internal consistency.
(d) Investigations.

5. How do conventionalists define simplicity?
(a) As a means to an end.
(b) As a unified practice.
(c) Unpractical.
(d) Aesthetic and practical.

Short Answer Questions

1. What comprises empirical science?

2. What increases with the amount of falsifiability?

3. What method does Popper say applies to science and is important to the theory of knowledge?

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

5. What depends on both universal and singular statements?

(see the answer key)

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