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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 conventionalists, what will yields more complete results of science?
(a) Experimentation.
(b) Inferences.
(c) Greater mastery.
(d) Logical constructions of nature.

2. What is the theory of theories?
(a) Existential statements.
(b) The logic of science.
(c) System of theories.
(d) Causality.

3. How do conventionalists view Poppers beliefs on the underpinnings of new discoveries?
(a) Good judgment.
(b) Logical.
(c) A collapse of science.
(d) Unwarranted.

4. What does Popper think about statements in which individuals names do not occur?
(a) They are logical.
(b) They are not logical.
(c) They are metaphysical.
(d) They are tautological.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What should guide the methods of testing scientific statements?

2. For what purpose are methodological rules developed?

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

4. What is one characteristic of the relationship between theory and classes of statements that must be present?

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

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