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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 types of statements have no logical justification in which to draw conclusions?
(a) Inferential.
(b) Singular.
(c) Logical.
(d) Circular.

2. How does logic serve in determining if a statement is testable?
(a) It creates provability.
(b) It does nothing.
(c) It creates understanding.
(d) It sets up criteria.

3. What type of reasoning does Popper believe inductive reasoning is?
(a) Philosophical.
(b) Scientific.
(c) Rational.
(d) Metaphysical.

4. What type of reasoning, according to Popper, is not rational?
(a) Deductive.
(b) Inductive.
(c) Scientific.
(d) Testable.

5. What must be maintained in at each level of the experimental process?
(a) Systems of theories.
(b) Methods.
(c) Auxiliary hypotheses.
(d) Integrity of testability.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do conventionalists view Poppers beliefs on the underpinnings of new discoveries?

2. What does the first rule of logic do?

3. Demarcation is based on what definition of Popper's?

4. What is not to be expected of methodology?

5. Popper rejects perceptions because they tie into what type of principles?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is Fries' trilemma?

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

5. What are the two conditions that must be met for a statement to be falsifiable?

6. Popper states that scientific statements cannot be conclusively disproved. If this is the case what can be determined with these statements?

7. How is causality related to tautological arguments?

8. What are three characteristics of theories?

9. According to Popper, what should epistemology do?

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

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