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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What lies in the testability of simple systems?
(a) The value of simplicity.
(b) The construct of simplicity.
(c) The flaw of simplicity.
(d) The justification of simplicity.

2. What, according to von Mises, is derived from certain initial probabilities and distributions?
(a) Alternatives.
(b) Event sequences.
(c) Collectives.
(d) Normative probabilities.

3. What does Popper state many philosophers do not recognize when emphasizing the importance of simplicity?
(a) Probabilities of this emphasis.
(b) Relationships that arise because of this emphasis.
(c) Justifications that arise from this emphasis.
(d) Difficulties that arise because of this emphasis.

4. What is the word simplicity dependent on?
(a) Logic.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Conventionalism.
(d) Practicality.

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

6. Who does Popper suggest works in probabilistic logic to determine the probability of a hypothesis?
(a) Inductivists.
(b) Positivist.
(c) Metaphysicists.
(d) Conventionalists.

7. How does Popper describe the link between the hypothesis and physical selections in Heisenberg's theory?
(a) They are separable.
(b) Quantum physics must be considered.
(c) There is no valid connection.
(d) They are inseparable.

8. What hypothetical estimate of frequency suggests equal distribution, normally based on considerations of symmetry?
(a) Objective probability hypothesis.
(b) Extrapolation of statistical findings.
(c) Random events hypothesis.
(d) Equal choice hypothesis.

9. What does Popper note about conventionalists appeal to simplicity?
(a) It was too fundamental.
(b) There was no logic in it.
(c) It could not save them from arbitrariness.
(d) It cannot be practical.

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

11. What will classes with greater dimensions have?
(a) More complications.
(b) More relationships with other events.
(c) More justifications.
(d) More testability.

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

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

14. What theory is based on random events?
(a) Theory of chance.
(b) Subjective theory.
(c) Normative theory.
(d) Random Theory.

15. What is shown to be equal in issues relating to power of classes?
(a) Class dimensions.
(b) Testability.
(c) Power.
(d) Falsifiers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Popper feel has been unsuccessful in purging atomic science of metaphysical influences?

2. In chapter 9, what does Popper use to test his probability theory?

3. If two statements have equal logical content what must also be equal?

4. What do the fractions between 0 and 1 represent?

5. What does Popper dismiss Weyl's use of mathematical simplicity?

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