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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What key component of Popper's view does not equate to truth?
(a) Universal statements.
(b) Corroboration.
(c) Logic.
(d) Falsifiability.

2. What does Popper say degrees of simplicity can be identified with in the 1972 addendum in Chapter 7?
(a) Degrees of logic.
(b) Degrees of falsifiability.
(c) None of these is correct..
(d) Degrees of testability.

3. How do conventionalists define simplicity?
(a) As a means to an end.
(b) As a unified practice.
(c) Aesthetic and practical.
(d) Unpractical.

4. What does Popper dismiss Weyl's use of mathematical simplicity?
(a) Weyl fails to include probability.
(b) Weyl fails to define mathematical simplicity.
(c) Weyl fails to test it empirically.
(d) Weyl fails to include concrete statements.

5. What is shown to be equal in issues relating to power of classes?
(a) Power.
(b) Class dimensions.
(c) Testability.
(d) Falsifiers.

6. What scientific thought suggests that probability can be regarded as a generalization of the concept of a singular truth?
(a) Conventionalism.
(b) Positivism.
(c) Inductivism.
(d) Naturalism.

7. What do the fractions between 0 and 1 represent?
(a) Justification.
(b) Metaphysical numbers.
(c) Falsifiability.
(d) Tautological methods.

8. What does not requires one to change the number of parameters of the displacements of groups of points.
(a) Geometrical curves.
(b) Sine waves.
(c) Physics.
(d) Simplicity.

9. According to Popper, what philosophy ignores the hypothetical character of statistically derived estimates?
(a) Conventionalism.
(b) Inductivism.
(c) Metaphysics.
(d) Positivism.

10. According to Popper, since measurement can be altered what does that say about using measurement in science?
(a) It should be used as a basis for prediction.
(b) Measurement is not valid.
(c) It cannot be used as a basis for prediction.
(d) Measurement is reliable.

11. What lies in the testability of simple systems?
(a) The justification of simplicity.
(b) The construct of simplicity.
(c) The flaw of simplicity.
(d) The value of simplicity.

12. What involves considering the number of favorable cases divided by the number of possible cases?
(a) Abstract probability.
(b) Numerical probability.
(c) Concrete probability.
(d) Non-numerical probability.

13. What should researchers abstain from doing with regard to the probabilities of their research?
(a) Using determinants.
(b) Issuing prohibitions.
(c) Basing research on assumptions.
(d) Referring to logic.

14. What theory suggests that simplicity is expected to achieve a law-like regularity of events?
(a) Pragmatic.
(b) Positivist.
(c) Conventional.
(d) Metaphysical.

15. What does Popper feel is one of the premier scientific achievements?
(a) Psychology.
(b) Mathematics.
(c) Quantum physics.
(d) Biology.

Short Answer Questions

1. What, according to von Mises, is derived from certain initial probabilities and distributions?

2. What does Popper call his probability theory?

3. What is the word simplicity dependent on?

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

5. What are hypothetical estimates of frequency?

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