Karl Lambert and Gordon Brittan, "Laws and Conditional Statements"

1. According to Lambert and Britten, a law must

• (a) have empirical content
• (b) be true
• (c) be an accidental generalization
• (d) all of the above

2. According to Lambert and Britten, the criterion of empirical content

• (a) is fairly easy to state
• (b) is intended to rule out nonsense and analytic explanations
• (c) is intended to insure that explanations will be sound
• (d) all of the above

3. According to Lambert and Britten, "accidental" generalizations which are univeral in form

• (a) support counterfactual conditionals
• (b) are lawlike statements
• (c) are confirmed by their instances
• (d) none of the above

4. According to Lambert and Britten, the class of lawlike statements contains

• (a) analytic statements
• (b) only true generalizations
• (c) only statements which are universal in form and which support counterfactuals
• (d) accidental generalizations

5. According to Lambert and Britten, lawlike statements are

• (a) universal in form
• (b) confirmed by their instances
• (c) systematically connected to a theoretical framework
• (d) all of the above

6. According to Lambert and Britten, counterfactual conditionals are

• (a) the same as "material" conditionals
• (b) always true
• (c) accidental generalizations
• (d) none of the above

7. According to Lambert and Britten, the basic difference between laws and generalizations is that:

• (a) laws are true, whereas generalizations are neither true nor false
• (b) laws are universal in form, whereas generalizations are not universal in form
• (c) laws state what in fact is the case, whereas generalizations state what would be the case
• (d) none of the above