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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of hypotheses does Popper warn against?

2. From what does a theoretical system arise?

3. How are theories used to explain the world?

4. What depends on both universal and singular statements?

5. What does Popper feel is a fruitless exercise?

Short Essay Questions

1. According to Popper, what should epistemology do?

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

3. What does Popper classify as being inductive statements?

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

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

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

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

8. What is the conventionalist view of science?

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

10. What is the falsification of a statement?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Popper leaves the question of the benefits of more or fewer falsifiers open. Discuss the benefits or drawbacks of more or fewer falsifiers. Based on this information, which do you feel is better? Explain your answer.

Essay Topic 2

Popper has suggests two significant factors about Heisenberg's programme. What are these two factors? How did Popper come to these conclusions? What are Popper's corrections of these issues? Based on the reading and Popper's previous explanations of the uncertainty relations presented in Heisenberg's programme do you feel these are adequate criticisms and solutions?

Essay Topic 3

In one experiment designed to somewhat mimic studies by Compton-Simon and Bothe-Geiger, Popper suggests the use of an "imaginary selection." What is the purpose of this selection?

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