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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 type of classes are singled out and can not be subject to the rigors of scientific empirical scrutiny?
(a) Unified classes.
(b) Empty classes.
(c) Sub-classes.
(d) Unique classes.

2. What does Popper say methodological rules are?
(a) Conventions.
(b) Keys to understanding.
(c) Testable.
(d) Irrelevant.

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

4. What does not requires one to change the number of parameters of the displacements of groups of points.
(a) Geometrical curves.
(b) Simplicity.
(c) Sine waves.
(d) Physics.

5. For a theory to be falsifiable, what must it prohibit?
(a) Conventionalism.
(b) Logic.
(c) Previous theories.
(d) At least one occurrence.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of reasoning, according to Popper, is not rational?

2. What does the principle of causality say about all events?

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

4. Popper rejects perceptions because they tie into what type of principles?

5. How does Popper negate positivist notions regarding the meaninglessness of certain scientific statements?

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