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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What should the rules of epistemology adhere to?
(a) Psychology.
(b) Demarcation.
(c) Logic.
(d) Scientific theory.

4. How do conventionalists view Poppers beliefs on the underpinnings of new discoveries?
(a) Unwarranted.
(b) Logical.
(c) Good judgment.
(d) A collapse of science.

5. What is important to Popper's argument for a logic of science?
(a) Singular statements.
(b) Universal statements.
(c) Theories.
(d) Potential falsifiers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Popper feel is a fruitless exercise?

2. What is a precondition for rational consideration?

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

4. What method does Popper say applies to science and is important to the theory of knowledge?

5. What holds the fate of a theory?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the conventionalist view of science?

2. How does Popper define a scientist?

3. Why does Popper view positivism as narrow, limited, and misguided?

4. What argument does Popper present against conventionalists and positivists regarding the testing of a theory?

5. What is the task of the logic of scientific discovery?

6. With regard to universal and singular statements, what does Popper note about symbolic logic?

7. What must an experimenter do in order to test a theory?

8. Why does Popper discredit the conventionalist view of science?

9. What is the purpose of empirical systems being consistent and falsifiable?

10. What is the falsification of a statement?

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