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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is a precondition for rational consideration?
(a) Falsification.
(b) Subjectivity.
(c) Justification.
(d) Objectivity.
2. What does Popper suggest is the result of using logic to justify a statement?
(a) Theories.
(b) More problems.
(c) A loop that logic cannot escape.
(d) A solution.
3. What does Popper states the "game of science" is?
(a) A principle.
(b) A farce.
(c) A concept.
(d) An ultimate truth.
4. What must a philosopher do to accept Poppers proposed definition of science?
(a) Agree with its constructs.
(b) Read his background theories.
(c) Understand empirical science.
(d) Accept the consequences.
5. What type of approach do positivists use to investigate scientific statements?
(a) Logical approach.
(b) Deductive approach.
(c) Inductive approach.
(d) Theoretical approach.
6. What does Popper think about statements in which individuals names do not occur?
(a) They are logical.
(b) They are not logical.
(c) They are metaphysical.
(d) They are tautological.
7. What does Popper admit is a problem with scientific investigations?
(a) Logical decisions.
(b) Objectivity.
(c) Subjectivity.
(d) Abstract nature of philosophy.
8. What must be maintained in at each level of the experimental process?
(a) Integrity of testability.
(b) Methods.
(c) Auxiliary hypotheses.
(d) Systems of theories.
9. What types of statements are scientific theories?
(a) Proven.
(b) Logical.
(c) Universal.
(d) Singular.
10. Demarcation is based on what definition of Popper's?
(a) Theory.
(b) Metaphysics.
(c) Logic.
(d) Empirical science.
11. How does deductive reasoning begin?
(a) Premise of testability.
(b) Premise of induction.
(c) Premise of falsifiability.
(d) Premise of logic.
12. What challenges Poppers use of falsification as criteria in deciding is a theoretical system is empirical?
(a) Theoretical experiments.
(b) Competence.
(c) Construction of Nature.
(d) Conventionalism.
13. What is the reason Popper rejects psychologism?
(a) Perceptions allow for justifications.
(b) Perceptions are inter-objective.
(c) Perceptions are inter-subjective.
(d) Perceptions do not allow for justifications.
14. What does the principle of causality say about all events?
(a) They must use previous assumptions.
(b) They can be deductively predicted.
(c) They can in inductively predicted.
(d) They must be falsifiable.
15. For what purpose are methodological rules developed?
(a) Protect demarcation.
(b) Falsity demarcation.
(c) Question demarcation.
(d) Wholly prove demarcation.
Short Answer Questions
1. What can observation do for science?
2. How must scientific statements be tested?
3. Popper rejects perceptions because they tie into what type of principles?
4. What guides a scientific experiment?
5. What type of hypotheses does Popper warn against?
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