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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II: Chapter 8, Probability.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the reproducible effect which refutes a theory?
(a) Contradiction.
(b) Falsification.
(c) Convention.
(d) Falsifiability.

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

3. What type of numerical interpretation requires that probabilities be only expressed as frequencies?
(a) Objective.
(b) Non-empirical.
(c) Psychological.
(d) Subjective.

4. What does Popper suggest is not psychological?
(a) Subjectivism.
(b) Observability.
(c) Objectivism.
(d) Existentialism.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is used to make laws based on observations?

2. What guides a scientific experiment?

3. What does Popper dismiss Weyl's use of mathematical simplicity?

4. What must a philosopher do to accept Poppers proposed definition of science?

5. Where does information about precision come from?

(see the answer key)

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