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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 is the word simplicity dependent on?
(a) Logic.
(b) Conventionalism.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Practicality.

2. What does Popper use to check his investigations?
(a) Mathematics.
(b) Universal statements.
(c) Assumptions.
(d) Testability.

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

4. What is a precondition for rational consideration?
(a) Justification.
(b) Objectivity.
(c) Subjectivity.
(d) Falsification.

5. What must be identical to basic statements?
(a) Universal statements.
(b) Potential falsifiers.
(c) Theories.
(d) Singular statements.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the fractions between 0 and 1 represent?

2. What does Popper state many philosophers do not recognize when emphasizing the importance of simplicity?

3. If a system is protected what will its degree of falsifiability be equal to?

4. What is one approach to knowledge considered by Popper?

5. What guides a scientific experiment?

(see the answer key)

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