Question: What parts of a theory are unnecessary before the simple theory is falsified?
Answer: additional conditions

Question: Who presented a solution to the philosophical problem of induction centered around falsifiability?
Answer: Popper

Question: Popper's rational approach opposes what technique sometimes used to remove contradictions in knowledge?
Answer: ad-hoc-measures

Question: Which of Popper's students argued that rational criticism should be most widely applied?
Answer: W.W. Bartley III

Question: What type of knowledge is not the only sphere of rational criticism, according to Popper's student W.W. Bartley III?
Answer: empirical

Question: According to Popper, what is not grounds for doubt?
Answer: lack of justification

Question: What principle of traditional philosophy did Popper take an anti-justificationist stance against?
Answer: principle of sufficient reason

Question: What does Popper believe is essential to do to theories instead of justification?
Answer: eliminate errors

Question: What don't we need to look for about theories in Popper's view?
Answer: good positive reasons

Question: What is the term for the view that there are discoverable general laws constraining history's development?
Answer: historicism

Question: What political forms did Popper believe historicism supported?
Answer: authoritarianism and totalitarianism

Question: What unpredictable feature of the world did Popper say refuted historicism?
Answer: the growth of human knowledge

Question: Which of Popper's works criticized the idea that history has an inexorable developmental path?
Answer: The Poverty of Historicism

Question: Whose theory of truth did Popper read with intense interest in 1935?
Answer: Alfred Tarski

Question: What theory of interest to Popper did Alfred Tarski publish in 1933?
Answer: semantic theory of truth

Question: Tarski's theory overcame certain objections to what conception of truth?
Answer: truth as correspondence

Question: What kind of realism did Popper believe Tarski's theory supported?
Answer: metaphysical

Question: What term do philosophers give to the kind of theory Tarski proposed about truth?
Answer: deflationary

Question: With what does Popper say Tarski's theory replaces the predicate "is true?"
Answer: "corresponds to the facts"

Question: What concept did Tarski introduce to discuss the conditions for the truth of statements?
Answer: metalanguage

Question: What two things does Popper argue Tarski's theory involves in an evaluation of truth?
Answer: assertions and the facts to which they refer

Question: What term does Popper use that roughly means verisimilitude?
Answer: truthlikeness

Question: Poppers notion of verisimilitude leaves no place for which kind of probabilities in the evaluation of scientific hypotheses?
Answer: subjective

Question: What class of considerations did Popper believe were not important in scientific measurement?
Answer: epistemic

Question: What is the logical content of hypotheses inversely proportional to in Popper's reasoning?
Answer: probability

Question: What did Popper argue was objective and independent of its subject?
Answer: knowledge

Question: How many different worlds or realities did Popper differentiate in Objective Knowledge?
Answer: three

Question: What constituted World One in Popper's theory?
Answer: the physical world

Question: Who produced the contents of World Three?
Answer: individual human beings

Question: Which world's evolution corresponds to the growth of human knowledge?
Answer: World Three

Question: Which of Popper's notions is often invoked in creation-evolution debates?
Answer: criterion of falsifiability

Question: What kind of research program did Popper call Darwinism?
Answer: metaphysical

Question: What phrase did Popper use to describe Darwinism's relation to proper falsifiable theories?
Answer: possible framework

Question: Popper's philosophy is often applied in what political debate concerning biological science?
Answer: creation–evolution

Question: Along with some creationists, Popper believed that evolution must have what quality to its progress?
Answer: goal-directed

Question: Popper disagreed with creationists that whose hand must be directing evolution?
Answer: god

Question: What kind of an entity did Popper believe the universe to be?
Answer: creative

Question: What is the name of Popper's model of evolution?
Answer: spearhead

Question: Popper's model of evolution is part of what family of models?
Answer: genetic pluralism

Question: What directs the actions of organisms in Popper's biological model?
Answer: goals

Question: Organisms' goals shift along with which notable genetic process?
Answer: Mutations

Question: Which view of evolution emphasizing large changes in organisms' phenotypes does Popper oppose to his own?
Answer: hopeful monster

Question: Which aspect of organisms changes most radically in the process of evolution Popper envisions?
Answer: behaviour

Question: How does Popper describe the "monsters" that evolve in his view of evolutionary processes?
Answer: hopeful behavioural monster

Question: What kind of Darwinism does Popper subscribe to in contrast to the naturalistic kind?
Answer: active

Question: Which professor cited by Popper described the creation-evolution debate as "a storm in a Victorian tea-cup?"
Answer: C.E. Raven

Question: What controversy involving science did Popper believe was sensationalized because of its connection with religion?
Answer: creation-evolution

Question: In which year did C.E. Raven publish the remarks on creation-evolution quoted by Popper?
Answer: 1943

Question: What term does Popper use when describing creationism as a type of theory?
Answer: metaphysical

Question: In which year did Popper give a secret interview concerning his views about God?
Answer: 1969

Question: Which term for his religious outlook did Popper prefer?
Answer: agnosticism

Question: What did Popper believe were at the heart of religious disagreements, and should not be the cause of as much conflict as they are?
Answer: myths

Question: Although he opposed organized religion, what attitude did Popper think should be taken toward it:
Answer: tolerant

Question: What branch of philosophy did Popper advance the most?
Answer: philosophy of science

Question: Which department did Popper found at the London School of Economics?
Answer: Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method

Question: Which two major philosophers of science learned a great deal from Popper at the London School Economics?
Answer: Imre Lakatos and Paul Feyerabend

Question: What did Paul Feyerabend ultimate do to Popper's philosophy of science?
Answer: repudiated it entirely

Question: Where did Popper establish a university department for the philosophy of science in 1946?
Answer: London School of Economics

Question: Which other Austrian scholar and friend of Popper also worked near him at the London School of Economics?
Answer: Friedrich Hayek

Question: What was Hayek's academic field?
Answer: Economics

Question: In which year did Popper write Hayek a letter expressing his intellectual debt to him?
Answer: 1944

Question: Who did Popper say was the only thinker who might have had a greater influence on him than Hayek?
Answer: Alfred Tarski

Question: Which of Hayek's publications was dedicated to Popper?
Answer: Studies in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics

Question: What other contemporaneous school of thought is often confused with Popper's own contributions?
Answer: logical positivism

Question: Popper has stressed that his description of scientific methodology should not be mistaken to apply to whom?
Answer: any particular scientist

Question: At what level does Popper indicate his view of scientific methodology applies?
Answer: system or community

Question: What kind of progress does science make given the methodology Popper describes?
Answer: slow but steady