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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many conditions must a statement satisfy in order to be falsifiable?
(a) 5.
(b) 3.
(c) 4.
(d) 2.

2. Popper rejects perceptions because they tie into what type of principles?
(a) Inductive.
(b) Logical.
(c) Metaphysical.
(d) Deductive.

3. What does Popper do if proof for a statement can not be found?
(a) Retests.
(b) Makes assumptions to better prove the statement.
(c) Denies the statement.
(d) Suspends judgment.

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

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

6. What does Popper states the "game of science" is?
(a) A farce.
(b) An ultimate truth.
(c) A principle.
(d) A concept.

7. What denotes what is universal about an occurrence?
(a) Post events.
(b) Sub-events.
(c) Singular statements.
(d) Events.

8. What allows for considerations of whether a theory is falsifiable?
(a) Theories.
(b) Basic statements.
(c) Universal statements.
(d) Potential falsifiers.

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

10. What is the concept of simplicity a part of according to Popper?
(a) Infinite regress.
(b) Framework of induction.
(c) Logical reasoning.
(d) Metaphysical logic.

11. Also referred to as singular statements, what are subsets of events?
(a) Occurrences.
(b) Situations.
(c) Post events.
(d) Sub-events.

12. From what does methodological rule differ?
(a) Rules of science.
(b) Rules of logic.
(c) Rules of sustainability.
(d) Rules of truth.

13. With what does psychologism concern itself?
(a) Questions of fact.
(b) Concept of demarcation.
(c) Questions of justification.
(d) Logical analysis.

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

15. What do the constructions of the laws of nature determine?
(a) The value of science.
(b) The falsifiability of a theory.
(c) The properties of the natural world.
(d) The truth of a theory.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of approach do positivists use to investigate scientific statements?

2. What is the reproducible effect which refutes a theory?

3. In order to be true statements of science, what characteristic must these statements have?

4. What happens if there is on falsifiable information?

5. What does Popper fear philosophers will think about methodological investigations?

(see the answer keys)

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