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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Popper say degrees of simplicity can be identified with in the 1972 addendum in Chapter 7?
(a) Degrees of logic.
(b) None of these is correct..
(c) Degrees of falsifiability.
(d) Degrees of testability.

2. By seeking the highest degree of universality and precision, what type of content results?
(a) High positive content.
(b) High deductive content.
(c) High assumed content.
(d) High empirical content.

3. What type of content is considered valuable according to Popper?
(a) High empirical content.
(b) Low metaphysical content.
(c) High metaphysical content.
(d) Low empirical content.

4. What theory attempted to eliminate unobservable events?
(a) Einstein's theory of probability.
(b) The Bohr Model.
(c) Newton's theory of gravity.
(d) Heisenberg's uncertainty principle.

5. What does not requires one to change the number of parameters of the displacements of groups of points.
(a) Geometrical curves.
(b) Simplicity.
(c) Physics.
(d) Sine waves.

6. What leads to scientific advances?
(a) Proving theories are invalid.
(b) The quest for knowledge.
(c) The passion for knowledge.
(d) Creating hypotheses.

7. What has a limited utility in comparing falsifiers?
(a) Sub-justifications.
(b) Sub-classes.
(c) Sub-tests.
(d) Sub-dimensions.

8. What is the central question Popper poses for theories?
(a) How they stand up to other tests.
(b) Whether they yield significant results.
(c) If they have been tested more than once.
(d) How logical they are.

9. What is Feigl's reasoning to the motion of simplicity?
(a) It can be better tested.
(b) It reveals more empirical content.
(c) It can be better justified.
(d) It appeals to the economy of thought.

10. What does Popper feel about the scientific characteristic of nature?
(a) He challenges them.
(b) He opposes them.
(c) He supports them.
(d) He ignores them.

11. If two statements have equal logical content what must also be equal?
(a) Their justification.
(b) Empirical content.
(c) Their logical probability.
(d) Their inductive reasoning.

12. When comparing empirical content, what two factors must the relationship points fall between?
(a) Logical and metaphysical.
(b) Contradiction and tautology.
(c) Tautology and metaphysical.
(d) Contradiction and metaphysical.

13. What scientific thought suggests that probability can be regarded as a generalization of the concept of a singular truth?
(a) Conventionalism.
(b) Inductivism.
(c) Naturalism.
(d) Positivism.

14. What does Popper feel about normally attained simplicity?
(a) It is too subjective.
(b) It serves to provide a justification.
(c) It is logical.
(d) It is untenable.

15. What does Popper suggest uncertainty statements are derived from?
(a) Singular statements.
(b) Universal statements.
(c) Unknowns.
(d) Logical statement.

Short Answer Questions

1. What law suffers from the metaphysics of induction?

2. What does Popper state cannot be applied to a sequence of events?

3. What is directly linked to falsification?

4. What does Popper feel closes off areas of research?

5. In order to validate his theory, what does Popper categorize regarding frequency theory?

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