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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 equate simplicity with?
(a) Conventionalism.
(b) Falsifiability.
(c) Empiricism.
(d) Psychology.

2. How does Popper negate positivist notions regarding the meaninglessness of certain scientific statements?
(a) Including synthetic statements.
(b) Conducting empirical research.
(c) Failing to justify statements.
(d) Including abstract statements.

3. What must be identical to basic statements?
(a) Universal statements.
(b) Singular statements.
(c) Potential falsifiers.
(d) Theories.

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

5. What are easier to test and falsify?
(a) Simple structures.
(b) Singular structures.
(c) Complex structures.
(d) Unified structures.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term does Popper use of empirical science?

2. What does Popper consider existential statements to be?

3. What is the theory of theories?

4. What allows for considerations of whether a theory is falsifiable?

5. What increases with the amount of falsifiability?

(see the answer key)

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