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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 dismiss Weyl's use of mathematical simplicity?
(a) Weyl fails to test it empirically.
(b) Weyl fails to include concrete statements.
(c) Weyl fails to include probability.
(d) Weyl fails to define mathematical simplicity.

2. What does Popper feel closes off areas of research?
(a) Attempts to demonstrate statistical scatter relations.
(b) Attempts to demonstrate the uncertainty principle.
(c) Attempts to demonstrate the particle formula.
(d) Attempts to demonstrate the wave theory.

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

4. What does Popper equate simplicity with?
(a) Conventionalism.
(b) Falsifiability.
(c) Empiricism.
(d) Psychology.

5. According to von Mises, what occurs to the frequencies of events when event sequences become longer?
(a) They become equal.
(b) They increase at the same rate.
(c) They develop an inverse relationship.
(d) They decrease at the same rate.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Feigl's reasoning to the motion of simplicity?

2. What is the central question Popper poses for theories?

3. What hypothetical estimate of frequency suggests equal distribution, normally based on considerations of symmetry?

4. What lies in the testability of simple systems?

5. What theory does Schrödinger begin this investigation with?

Short Essay Questions

1. Using Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, what does Popper attempt to prove?

2. How is the physical basis for the uncertainty theory undermined?

3. What two scientific arguments does Popper use to verify his beliefs about inductivists?

4. What are the two main sources for hypothetical estimates of frequencies with regard to infinite empirical sequences?

5. What is the basic contribution that Popper makes to the logic of the theory of probability?

6. How does falsifiability relate to the dimensions of a statement under investigation?

7. What is the basis of the wave theory used by Schrödinger?

8. How does Popper feel traditional inductivists work?

9. How is the theory of chance solved?

10. What is the concern with using infinite sequences?

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