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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Popper say about the number of possible events with regard to testability?
(a) They are finite.
(b) They are not limited unless proven otherwise.
(c) They are infinite.
(d) They are limited by the theory.

2. How are statements made falsifiable?
(a) By testing them.
(b) By finding flaws in the statement.
(c) By accepting methodological rules.
(d) By turning them into universal statements.

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

4. What concept does Popper consider probability to be outside of?
(a) Falsification.
(b) Conventionalism.
(c) Simplicity.
(d) Positivism.

5. What are easier to test and falsify?
(a) Unified structures.
(b) Complex structures.
(c) Simple structures.
(d) Singular structures.

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

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

8. What plays a vitally important role in empirical science?
(a) Probability.
(b) Research.
(c) Inferences.
(d) Simplicity.

9. How does Popper describe the link between the hypothesis and physical selections in Heisenberg's theory?
(a) They are inseparable.
(b) They are separable.
(c) Quantum physics must be considered.
(d) There is no valid connection.

10. When comparing empirical content, what two factors must the relationship points fall between?
(a) Contradiction and tautology.
(b) Logical and metaphysical.
(c) Tautology and metaphysical.
(d) Contradiction and metaphysical.

11. What will classes with greater dimensions have?
(a) More testability.
(b) More justifications.
(c) More complications.
(d) More relationships with other events.

12. What can be predicted using the statistical scatter principle?
(a) A particle's path.
(b) A particle's size.
(c) A particle's speed.
(d) A particle's mass.

13. What type of numerical interpretation requires that probabilities be only expressed as frequencies?
(a) Objective.
(b) Psychological.
(c) Non-empirical.
(d) Subjective.

14. Who does Popper suggest works in probabilistic logic to determine the probability of a hypothesis?
(a) Metaphysicists.
(b) Positivist.
(c) Conventionalists.
(d) Inductivists.

15. What law suffers from the metaphysics of induction?
(a) The law of science.
(b) The law of gravity.
(c) The law of nature.
(d) The law of causality.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Popper feel is one of the premier scientific achievements?

2. What lies in the testability of simple systems?

3. What does Popper suggest uncertainty statements are derived from?

4. What theory suggests that simplicity is expected to achieve a law-like regularity of events?

5. What is shown to be equal in issues relating to power of classes?

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