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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the boundaries of conditions?
(a) Truth and falsehood.
(b) Physical and metaphysical.
(c) Theory and proof.
(d) Logic and non-logic.

2. What is diametrically opposed to the critical attitude required of a scientist?
(a) Epistemology.
(b) Demarcation.
(c) Experimentation.
(d) Dogmatic defense.

3. What happens when theories are refined?
(a) They become proven fact.
(b) They become better explanatory tools.
(c) They become obsolete.
(d) Science prevails.

4. What types of statements are scientific theories?
(a) Universal.
(b) Proven.
(c) Singular.
(d) Logical.

5. What does Popper consider to contribute to the cosmology of empirical science?
(a) Metaphysical and philosophical ideas.
(b) Questions of fact.
(c) Inductive frameworks.
(d) Linguistic puzzles.

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

7. According to Popper, what can't universals be reduced to?
(a) A class of experiences.
(b) Dogmatism.
(c) Infinite regress.
(d) Psychologism.

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

9. The success of a theory is base on what comparison?
(a) To other theories.
(b) To the experimental justification.
(c) To the scientist's point of view.
(d) To the singular statements.

10. What confuses the distinction between universal and individual names?
(a) Existential statements.
(b) Theoretical statements.
(c) Symbolic logic.
(d) Negative statements.

11. What must be identical to basic statements?
(a) Singular statements.
(b) Theories.
(c) Universal statements.
(d) Potential falsifiers.

12. What is a precondition for rational consideration?
(a) Falsification.
(b) Justification.
(c) Subjectivity.
(d) Objectivity.

13. What type of statement is deduced from universal statements?
(a) True.
(b) Logical.
(c) Assumed.
(d) Singular.

14. What refers to a term that does not need a definition but is learned through experience?
(a) Primitive term.
(b) Advanced term.
(c) Existential term.
(d) Epistemological term.

15. What does Popper feel is the result of adopting conditions to a hypothesis?
(a) It will verify any phenomena under investigation.
(b) It supports conventionalism.
(c) It guards against conventionalism.
(d) It will lead to positive outcomes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What deductive tests determine if a theory is a scientific advance?

2. How does Popper investigate the chain of logical reasoning?

3. Natural laws are in a form to negate what type of statements?

4. What term does Popper use of empirical science?

5. What does Popper consider existential statements to be?

(see the answer keys)

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