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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II: Chapter 5, The Problem of Empirical Basis.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Also referred to as singular statements, what are subsets of events?
(a) Sub-events.
(b) Post events.
(c) Occurrences.
(d) Situations.

2. What does Popper admit is a problem with scientific investigations?
(a) Logical decisions.
(b) Objectivity.
(c) Abstract nature of philosophy.
(d) Subjectivity.

3. What is one characteristic of the relationship between theory and classes of statements that must be present?
(a) Auxiliary.
(b) Tautological,
(c) Abstract.
(d) Consistent.

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

5. What refers to a term that does not need a definition but is learned through experience?
(a) Primitive term.
(b) Existential term.
(c) Epistemological term.
(d) Advanced term.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is not to be expected of methodology?

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

3. What are the boundaries of conditions?

4. What confuses the distinction between universal and individual names?

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

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