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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. According to conventionalism, what is required to make determinations of the natural world?
(a) Theories.
(b) Inferences.
(c) Laws.
(d) Proofs.

2. What type of statement is deduced from universal statements?
(a) Assumed.
(b) Singular.
(c) True.
(d) Logical.

3. How must scientific statements be tested?
(a) Systematically.
(b) By their inductive consequences.
(c) By their deductive consequences.
(d) Logically.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Popper say methodological rules are?

2. What is considered only if one class includes the other?

3. What is used to make laws based on observations?

4. Where does information about precision come from?

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

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