The Demarcation Problem
Through the centuries many philosophers and scientists have struggled to distinguish between science and other disciplines that make epistemic claims to have knowledge, often with the claim that their knowledge is more certain (
apodictic truth goes back to the Greeks) than physical science, which is based on less than perfect, merely statistical
empirical evidence.
Simply saying that demarcation distinguishes science from >i>pseudo-science is far too broad. Analyzing the information content of different disciplines provides a much finer diagnostic tool.
Karl Popper
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