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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the first rule of logic do?
(a) Determines the type of research.
(b) Proves a scientific statement.
(c) Sets a norm.
(d) States testability.

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

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

5. What method does Popper say applies to science and is important to the theory of knowledge?
(a) Learning assumptions.
(b) Resolving contradictions.
(c) Understanding statements.
(d) Proving theories.

6. What type of reasoning, according to Popper, is not rational?
(a) Testable.
(b) Scientific.
(c) Deductive.
(d) Inductive.

7. What type of rule do positivists and reductionists adhere to, according to Popper?
(a) Non-logical rules.
(b) Rules of Psychology.
(c) Logical rules.
(d) Dogmatic rules.

8. What does Popper say about positivism?
(a) It is a clear way of thinking.
(b) It is based on invalid assumptions.
(c) It is based on scientific data.
(d) It is too narrow, limited, and misguided.

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

10. What does Popper suggest is the result of using logic to justify a statement?
(a) A loop that logic cannot escape.
(b) More problems.
(c) Theories.
(d) A solution.

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

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

13. What is used to capture and explain the world?
(a) Scientific data.
(b) Theories.
(c) Laws of nature.
(d) Logical statements.

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

15. What does Popper think about statements in which individuals names do not occur?
(a) They are metaphysical.
(b) They are logical.
(c) They are not logical.
(d) They are tautological.

Short Answer Questions

1. Also referred to as singular statements, what are subsets of events?

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

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

4. What challenges Poppers use of falsification as criteria in deciding is a theoretical system is empirical?

5. With what does psychologism concern itself?

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