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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the principle of causality say about all events?
(a) They can be deductively predicted.
(b) They must use previous assumptions.
(c) They must be falsifiable.
(d) They can in inductively predicted.

2. For what purpose are methodological rules developed?
(a) Wholly prove demarcation.
(b) Question demarcation.
(c) Falsity demarcation.
(d) Protect demarcation.

3. Natural laws are in a form to negate what type of statements?
(a) Universal.
(b) Proven.
(c) Singular.
(d) Existential.

4. To what does Popper equate critical thinking?
(a) Rational attitude.
(b) Inductive thinking.
(c) Deductive thinking.
(d) Common sense.

5. How must scientific statements be tested?
(a) Systematically.
(b) By their inductive consequences.
(c) Logically.
(d) By their deductive consequences.

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

7. What types of statements have no logical justification in which to draw conclusions?
(a) Inferential.
(b) Logical.
(c) Singular.
(d) Circular.

8. Who view natural science as a logical construction of nature?
(a) Experimenters.
(b) Realists.
(c) Conventionalists.
(d) Theorists.

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

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

11. What helps to realign or redefine accepted theory?
(a) Deductive consequences.
(b) Falsification feedback.
(c) Positive theory results.
(d) Positive justification.

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

13. What ties down fundamental ideas?
(a) Rules.
(b) Constructs.
(c) Contradictions.
(d) Conventions.

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

15. For a theory to be falsifiable, what must it prohibit?
(a) At least one occurrence.
(b) Previous theories.
(c) Conventionalism.
(d) Logic.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Menger say about definitions?

3. What type of reasoning does Popper believe inductive reasoning is?

4. What does Popper think about statements in which individuals names do not occur?

5. What type of reasoning, according to Popper, is not rational?

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