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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II: Chapter 8, Probability.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens if there is on falsifiable information?
(a) Learning does not occur.
(b) Learning occurs.
(c) Experiments fail.
(d) Conventionalism is proven.

2. What does Popper give credit to conventionalism for doing?
(a) Offering differing opinions.
(b) Adapting to varying conditions.
(c) Blind acceptance of logic.
(d) Linking theory to experiment.

3. What does Popper consider existential statements to be?
(a) Metaphysical.
(b) Logical.
(c) Tautological.
(d) Concrete.

4. How many conditions must a statement satisfy in order to be falsifiable?
(a) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) 5.
(d) 4.

5. What types of statements are scientific theories?
(a) Proven.
(b) Logical.
(c) Singular.
(d) Universal.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one characteristic of the relationship between theory and classes of statements that must be present?

2. What types of statements have no logical justification in which to draw conclusions?

3. What deductive tests determine if a theory is a scientific advance?

4. What guides a scientific experiment?

5. What does Popper feel about an axiom in relations of von Mises view of an axiom of randomness?

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