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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 is one approach to knowledge considered by Popper?
(a) Inductive.
(b) Common sense.
(c) Purposive.
(d) Accidental.

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

3. What method does Popper say applies to science and is important to the theory of knowledge?
(a) Understanding statements.
(b) Proving theories.
(c) Resolving contradictions.
(d) Learning assumptions.

4. What depends on both universal and singular statements?
(a) Abstract thought.
(b) Logical factors.
(c) Correlations.
(d) Causality.

5. What guides a scientific experiment?
(a) Logic.
(b) Theory.
(c) Deductive reasoning.
(d) Inductive reasoning.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Popper say about the number of possible events with regard to testability?

2. What must be maintained in at each level of the experimental process?

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

4. What increases with the amount of falsifiability?

5. What does Popper feel about the scientific characteristic of nature?

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