Occam's razor - Quiz
A) Because they have greater empirical content. B) Because they require less computational power. C) Because they are more aesthetically pleasing. D) Because they are easier to memorize.
A) Simpler theories are impossible to falsify. B) Simpler theories are always proven true. C) Simpler theories are less testable than complex ones. D) Simpler theories are more easily falsifiable.
A) Simplicity is irrelevant to informativeness. B) Informativeness has no connection to scientific hypothesis. C) Complex theories are always more informative. D) The simplest theory is more informative because it requires less information.
A) He decided that informativeness was a bad metric. B) He discovered that simple theories are always wrong. C) He stopped believing in the importance of scientific theory. D) It failed to provide an epistemic justification for simplicity.
A) Combined it with complexity. B) Proven it mathematically. C) Hypostatized it. D) Denied its existence entirely.
A) Only in mathematical equations. B) When embedded in a specific context. C) In all situations universally. D) Only when data is absent.
A) The question 'why be rational?' B) The question 'why is the sky blue?' C) The question 'why does gravity exist?' D) The question 'why do atoms exist?'
A) Political grounds. B) Aesthetic grounds. C) Logical grounds. D) Practical grounds.
A) As more likely to be true. B) As identical in probability to others. C) As purely an aesthetic preference. D) As less likely to be accurate.
A) It is an ultimate a priori epistemic principle. B) It has no relationship to truth. C) It is a physical law of nature. D) It is a social construct.
A) Science is redundant. B) Science is perfectly objective. C) Science is irrational. D) Science is too complex.
A) The Law of Entropy. B) Statistical Mechanics. C) Underdetermination. D) The Principle of Relativity.
A) Either data is useless or complexity is preferred. B) Either science is irrational or simplicity is a synthetic a priori truth. C) Either truth exists or science is a hobby. D) Either science is complete or simplicity is an illusion.
A) When both explain the data equally well. B) When the simple theory is mathematically incorrect. C) When the complex theory explains the data better. D) When there is no data available.
A) Harold Jeffreys and E. T. Jaynes. B) James O. Berger and Harold Jeffreys. C) William H. Jefferys and David J. C. MacKay. D) E. T. Jaynes and David J. C. MacKay.
A) No. B) Yes. C) Only for mathematical theories. D) Only for complex models.
A) The increase in prior bias. B) The sum of marginal and conditional probabilities. C) The balance between overfitting and underfitting. D) The reduction of adjustable parameters.
A) Lower bias but higher variance. B) Higher bias but lower variance. C) Lower bias and lower variance. D) Higher bias and higher variance.
A) Higher variance but lower bias. B) Lower variance but higher bias. C) Lower variance and lower bias. D) Higher variance and higher bias.
A) Lex parsimoniae B) Novacula Occami C) Entia non sunt D) Philosophia Christiana
A) Thomas Aquinas B) Libert Froidmont C) William of Ockham D) John Punch
A) Robert Grosseteste B) Ptolemy C) John Punch D) William of Ockham
A) John Duns Scotus B) Ptolemy C) Aristotle D) Maimonides
A) Libert Froidmont B) John Duns Scotus C) William of Ockham D) Thomas Aquinas
A) Jesuit priest B) Franciscan friar C) Benedictine monk D) Dominican monk
A) Existentialism B) Nominalism C) Idealism D) Realism
A) Cogito ergo sum B) Numquam ponenda est pluralitas sine necessitate C) Tabula rasa D) Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem
A) Numquam ponenda est pluralitas sine necessitate B) Frustra fit per plura quod potest fieri per pauciora C) Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem D) Pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate
A) Summa Totius Logicae B) Sentences of Peter Lombard C) Theological Lectures D) Quaestiones et decisiones
A) Bertrand Russell B) Thomas Aquinas C) Isaac Newton D) Ernst Mach
A) Isaac Newton B) Ray Solomonoff C) Theodore Woodward D) Ernst Mach
A) Exotic diseases B) Zebras C) Horses D) Rare animals
A) Ray Solomonoff B) Thomas Aquinas C) Theodore Woodward D) Ernst Mach
A) Historical B) Aesthetic C) Theological D) Epistemological
A) Spareness B) Complexity C) Probability D) Inefficiency
A) Categorizing medical diagnoses B) Establishing aesthetic standards C) Prediction based upon observations D) Defining theological morality
A) The consensus of the scientific community. B) The falsifiability criterion. C) The principle of absolute truth. D) The mathematical proof of data.
A) Christiaan Huygens. B) John Dalton. C) Max Planck. D) Isaac Newton.
A) Elliott Sober B) Francis Crick C) Richard Dawkins D) George C. Williams
A) Groups B) Individuals C) Ecosystems D) Genes
A) Sharing food resources among adults B) Displaying dominance through horn clashing C) Forming a defensive circle against wolves D) Migrating in large herds across frozen plains
A) Overall similarity B) Geographic range C) Synapomorphies D) Genealogy and similarity
A) The reliance on external physical traits B) The lack of mathematical rigor C) Statistical inconsistency D) The inability to use DNA data
A) Francis Crick B) George C. Williams C) Elliott Sober D) Richard Dawkins
A) Agnostic B) Pantheist C) Atheist D) Christian
A) Through scientific discovery B) Through human reason C) Only through faith D) Through logical proof
A) Methodological naturalism B) The Ultimate Boeing 747 gambit C) Materialism D) Quinque viae
A) George Berkeley B) William of Ockham C) Pierre-Simon Laplace D) Søren Kierkegaard
A) Scientific laws B) The interaction of atoms C) The mind alone D) Material objects
A) Matter was not required by his metaphysics B) Matter was proven to not exist C) He believed in atheism D) He rejected the mind's existence
A) A rejection of all philosophical reasoning B) A proof that God does not exist C) An explicit denial of Christian theology D) The power of methodological naturalism
A) Experience B) Infinite complexity C) Material proof only D) Emotional desire
A) Dale Jacquette B) Folk psychologists C) J. J. C. Smart D) Paul Churchland
A) 1984 B) 1959 C) 2000 D) 1994
A) Dualism B) Neuroscience C) Physical reality D) Fear
A) Restorative justice. B) Natural law theory. C) Legal realism. D) Retributive justice.
A) The Free energy principle alone. B) Retributive sentencing. C) Sensitivity testing. D) Kolmogorov complexity.
A) Bayesian model comparison. B) The parsimony principle of Bentham. C) The Kolmogorov-Chaitin approach. D) Simple Turing machine analysis.
A) A penal theory framework. B) A Bayesian factor. C) A restorative justice model. D) A Turing machine.
A) A highly complex binary sequence B) A randomly generated set of rules C) An infinite amount of memory D) Approximately the same length description
A) David L. Dowe B) Marcus Hutter C) Jürgen Schmidhuber D) Chris Wallace
A) The data itself B) Describing the program C) The Kolmogorov complexity D) The set of evidence
A) Marcus Hutter B) Chris Wallace C) Needham D) Jürgen Schmidhuber
A) Algorithmic probability research B) Universal Turing machine design C) Data encryption analysis D) Decision tree induction
A) Galileo Galilei B) Lewis White Beck C) Tim Berners-Lee D) Francis Crick
A) Lewis White Beck B) Tim Berners-Lee C) Quine D) Francis Crick
A) Immanuel Kant B) Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz C) Karl Menger D) Walter Chatton
A) Walter Chatton B) Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz C) Alfred Jarry D) Karl Menger
A) Unfocused on simplicity B) Careless with evidence C) Parsimonious with variables D) Extravagant with theories
A) The Law Against Miserliness B) Crabtree's Bludgeon C) The Principle of Plenitude D) 'Pataphysics
A) R. V. Jones B) Igor Mazin C) Alfred Jarry D) Jorge Luis Borges
A) Crabtree's Bludgeon B) The Law Against Miserliness C) Inverse Occam's razor D) The principle of plenitude
A) 1285 B) 1902 C) 2012 D) 1985
A) William of Ockham B) Karl Derrick C) Deborah Hyde D) Neil Davies
A) A mathematical formula B) The face of William of Ockham C) A double-edged safety razorblade D) A portrait of Alfred Jarry
A) Carpe diem B) Cogito, ergo sum C) In vino veritas D) Se non è vero, è ben trovato
A) Arthur Lovejoy B) Jorge Luis Borges C) Igor Mazin D) R. V. Jones |
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