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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II: Chapter 10, Corroboration, or How a Theory Stands up to Tests.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What theory is based on random events?
(a) Subjective theory.
(b) Theory of chance.
(c) Random Theory.
(d) Normative theory.

2. What does Popper claim can never be probable?
(a) Nature.
(b) Hypothetical assumptions.
(c) Theories.
(d) Laws.

3. What denotes what is universal about an occurrence?
(a) Singular statements.
(b) Events.
(c) Post events.
(d) Sub-events.

4. What does Popper eliminate from the common frequency theory by using mathematical and narrative approaches?
(a) Doubt.
(b) Axioms of convergence.
(c) Chance.
(d) Subjectivity.

5. What do some researchers suggest occurs when the probability is paired with testability?
(a) Probability is eliminated.
(b) Both remain equal.
(c) Probability increases.
(d) Probability decreases.

Short Answer Questions

1. What confuses the distinction between universal and individual names?

2. What holds the fate of a theory?

3. How does deductive reasoning begin?

4. What does Popper fear philosophers will think about methodological investigations?

5. What theory does Schrödinger begin this investigation with?

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