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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II: Chapter 6, Degrees of Testability.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is complimentary to the degree of falsifiability?
(a) Logic.
(b) Probability.
(c) Empty classes.
(d) Justifications.

2. What do the fractions between 0 and 1 represent?
(a) Falsifiability.
(b) Tautological methods.
(c) Metaphysical numbers.
(d) Justification.

3. What does Popper fear philosophers will think about methodological investigations?
(a) They do not belong to philosophy.
(b) There is no substance in them.
(c) They do not work.
(d) They contradict years of thought.

4. The success of a theory is base on what comparison?
(a) To other theories.
(b) To the experimental justification.
(c) To the singular statements.
(d) To the scientist's point of view.

5. When comparing empirical content, what two factors must the relationship points fall between?
(a) Contradiction and metaphysical.
(b) Contradiction and tautology.
(c) Logical and metaphysical.
(d) Tautology and metaphysical.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Popper investigate the chain of logical reasoning?

2. What will classes with greater dimensions have?

3. What does Menger say about definitions?

4. What does Popper consider existential statements to be?

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

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