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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 does Popper feel about normally attained simplicity?
(a) It is too subjective.
(b) It is logical.
(c) It serves to provide a justification.
(d) It is untenable.

2. How does Popper describe the link between the hypothesis and physical selections in Heisenberg's theory?
(a) Quantum physics must be considered.
(b) They are separable.
(c) They are inseparable.
(d) There is no valid connection.

3. What does Popper equate simplicity with?
(a) Empiricism.
(b) Falsifiability.
(c) Conventionalism.
(d) Psychology.

4. What holds the fate of a theory?
(a) Justifications.
(b) Other theories.
(c) Point of view.
(d) Decisions.

5. What does Popper give credit to conventionalism for doing?
(a) Adapting to varying conditions.
(b) Blind acceptance of logic.
(c) Offering differing opinions.
(d) Linking theory to experiment.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Popper feel has been unsuccessful in purging atomic science of metaphysical influences?

2. What does the first rule of logic do?

3. What do the constructions of the laws of nature determine?

4. What does not requires one to change the number of parameters of the displacements of groups of points.

5. What do the fractions between 0 and 1 represent?

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