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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II: Chapter 10, Corroboration, or How a Theory Stands up to Tests.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Popper suggest is the result of using logic to justify a statement?
(a) A loop that logic cannot escape.
(b) A solution.
(c) More problems.
(d) Theories.

2. What formula, developed by Popper, suggests that no aggregate of particles is more homogeneous than a pure case?
(a) Statistical pure case formula.
(b) Particle formula.
(c) Wave formula.
(d) Statistical scatter relations formula.

3. What is the central question Popper poses for theories?
(a) How logical they are.
(b) Whether they yield significant results.
(c) How they stand up to other tests.
(d) If they have been tested more than once.

4. What theory does Schrödinger begin this investigation with?
(a) Sound theory.
(b) Light theory.
(c) Particle theory.
(d) Wave theory.

5. According to many theorists, what gives meaning to classes of events?
(a) Testability.
(b) Class dimensions.
(c) Subclass events.
(d) Power.

Short Answer Questions

1. What concept does Popper consider probability to be outside of?

2. What must be identical to basic statements?

3. What does Popper say about the number of possible events with regard to testability?

4. What must be maintained in at each level of the experimental process?

5. What does Popper note about conventionalists appeal to simplicity?

(see the answer key)

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