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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. What does Popper consider existential statements to be?
(a) Logical.
(b) Metaphysical.
(c) Tautological.
(d) Concrete.

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

3. How does Popper investigate the chain of logical reasoning?
(a) Breaking it into steps.
(b) Identifying trends.
(c) Understanding metaphysics.
(d) Relying of previous research.

4. How must scientific statements be tested?
(a) Systematically.
(b) By their deductive consequences.
(c) By their inductive consequences.
(d) Logically.

5. What does Popper use to check his investigations?
(a) Mathematics.
(b) Assumptions.
(c) Universal statements.
(d) Testability.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many conditions must a statement satisfy in order to be falsifiable?

2. What does the principle of causality say about all events?

3. Who view natural science as a logical construction of nature?

4. From what does methodological rule differ?

5. What should the rules of epistemology adhere to?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Popper state is not the goal of science?

2. What does Popper say about the blind acceptance of auxiliary hypothesis?

3. What is Fries' trilemma?

4. How does one make a statement falsifiable?

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

6. Why does Popper state that observability is not psychological?

7. What does Popper classify as being inductive statements?

8. What are three characteristics of theories?

9. How is a naturalistic view constraining to scientific thought?

10. Why is the concept of numerical universality a problem for Popper?

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