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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II: Chapter 7, Simplicity.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What must be maintained in at each level of the experimental process?
(a) Systems of theories.
(b) Auxiliary hypotheses.
(c) Integrity of testability.
(d) Methods.

2. What type of content is considered valuable according to Popper?
(a) High metaphysical content.
(b) High empirical content.
(c) Low empirical content.
(d) Low metaphysical content.

3. What does the principle of causality say about all events?
(a) They can be deductively predicted.
(b) They must use previous assumptions.
(c) They can in inductively predicted.
(d) They must be falsifiable.

4. What does Popper thinks about Wittgenstein, Schlick, and Feigl's thoughts on simplicity as a basic law?
(a) It misses crucial points.
(b) It fully explains the law.
(c) It cannot be tested.
(d) It should include probability.

5. What comprises empirical science?
(a) Systems of theories.
(b) Guides to explanations.
(c) Natural laws.
(d) Universal assumptions.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do conventionalists define simplicity?

2. According to Popper, what can't universals be reduced to?

3. What is used to capture and explain the world?

4. What method does Popper say applies to science and is important to the theory of knowledge?

5. What is the word simplicity dependent on?

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