Demarcation Problem

A topic within Philosophy of Science, itself one of 12 topics in that field and part of Philosophy.

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Science: Conjectures and Refutations

Karl Popper

Proposes falsifiability as the mark of a genuinely scientific theory, contrasting it with Marxism, psychoanalysis and astrology, which he argues can explain away any observation.

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The Demise of the Demarcation Problem

Larry Laudan

Argues that decades of attempts to state a single criterion separating science from non-science have all failed, and that the question itself is the wrong one to ask.

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Science: Conjectures and Refutations

The Demise of the Demarcation Problem

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