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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. With what does psychologism concern itself?
(a) Logical analysis.
(b) Questions of fact.
(c) Concept of demarcation.
(d) Questions of justification.

2. What can observation do for science?
(a) Provide information on facts.
(b) Assume falsification.
(c) Establish the truth of a statement.
(d) Justify statements.

3. What type of approach do positivists use to investigate scientific statements?
(a) Logical approach.
(b) Deductive approach.
(c) Inductive approach.
(d) Theoretical approach.

4. What is diametrically opposed to the critical attitude required of a scientist?
(a) Dogmatic defense.
(b) Demarcation.
(c) Epistemology.
(d) Experimentation.

5. What does Popper feel is a fruitless exercise?
(a) Naming logical things.
(b) Naming singular things.
(c) Naming metaphysical things.
(d) Naming universal things.

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to a term that does not need a definition but is learned through experience?

2. What type of hypotheses does Popper warn against?

3. What holds the fate of a theory?

4. What is the reproducible effect which refutes a theory?

5. What is the theory of theories?

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