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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What method does Popper say applies to science and is important to the theory of knowledge?
(a) Learning assumptions.
(b) Resolving contradictions.
(c) Proving theories.
(d) Understanding statements.

2. What is not to be expected of methodology?
(a) False data.
(b) Logical constructs.
(c) Profound truths.
(d) Proven theories.

3. How do conventionalists view Poppers beliefs on the underpinnings of new discoveries?
(a) A collapse of science.
(b) Logical.
(c) Good judgment.
(d) Unwarranted.

4. What does Menger say about definitions?
(a) They are fruitful.
(b) They serve science well.
(c) They are dogmas.
(d) They are based on observations.

5. What types of statements have no logical justification in which to draw conclusions?
(a) Singular.
(b) Inferential.
(c) Logical.
(d) Circular.

Short Answer Questions

1. What comprises empirical science?

2. With what does psychologism concern itself?

3. How many conditions must a statement satisfy in order to be falsifiable?

4. For what purpose are methodological rules developed?

5. How does logic serve in determining if a statement is testable?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is causality related to tautological arguments?

2. With regard to universal and singular statements, what does Popper note about symbolic logic?

3. What argument does Popper present against conventionalists and positivists regarding the testing of a theory?

4. What is the falsification of a statement?

5. How is a naturalistic view constraining to scientific thought?

6. Why does Popper state that observability is not psychological?

7. What is the purpose of empirical systems being consistent and falsifiable?

8. What is the task of the logic of scientific discovery?

9. What does Popper state is not the goal of science?

10. What must be assumed to justify a universal statement?

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