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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II: Chapter 4, Falsifiability.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Natural laws are in a form to negate what type of statements?
(a) Existential.
(b) Proven.
(c) Singular.
(d) Universal.

2. What is one approach to knowledge considered by Popper?
(a) Purposive.
(b) Inductive.
(c) Common sense.
(d) Accidental.

3. What happens if there is on falsifiable information?
(a) Learning does not occur.
(b) Experiments fail.
(c) Conventionalism is proven.
(d) Learning occurs.

4. What does the first rule of logic do?
(a) Sets a norm.
(b) Proves a scientific statement.
(c) Determines the type of research.
(d) States testability.

5. What is the theory of theories?
(a) The logic of science.
(b) System of theories.
(c) Existential statements.
(d) Causality.

Short Answer Questions

1. What denotes what is universal about an occurrence?

2. What does Popper think about statements in which individuals names do not occur?

3. What does Popper states the "game of science" is?

4. What challenges Poppers use of falsification as criteria in deciding is a theoretical system is empirical?

5. What does the principle of causality say about all events?

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