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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 must be identical to basic statements?
(a) Theories.
(b) Universal statements.
(c) Potential falsifiers.
(d) Singular statements.

2. For a theory to be falsifiable, what must it prohibit?
(a) Previous theories.
(b) Logic.
(c) Conventionalism.
(d) At least one occurrence.

3. Demarcation is based on what definition of Popper's?
(a) Metaphysics.
(b) Empirical science.
(c) Logic.
(d) Theory.

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

5. What does Popper feel is the result of adopting conditions to a hypothesis?
(a) It will verify any phenomena under investigation.
(b) It will lead to positive outcomes.
(c) It guards against conventionalism.
(d) It supports conventionalism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one approach to knowledge considered by Popper?

2. What is used to capture and explain the world?

3. In order to be true statements of science, what characteristic must these statements have?

4. According to Popper, what can't universals be reduced to?

5. What does Popper consider existential statements to be?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How is causality related to tautological arguments?

4. What does breaking the investigation of the chain of logical reasoning into steps allow Popper to do?

5. What are three characteristics of theories?

6. What is the distinction between universal statements and singular statements?

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

8. How do methodological rules differ from logical or deductive rules?

9. How does one make a statement falsifiable?

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

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