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This 5 page paper explains and discusses Karl Popper's argument that falsifiability is the criterion that distinguishes science from non-science theory. That is the demarcation criterion. Popper went against conventional wisdom in his day with the argument that scientific theory could never be truly verified; it was only good until another theory falsified the first one. The writer also discusses why Popper's argument makes sense. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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scientific one (University of Wisconsin, Whitewater, 2002; Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2002). If, on the other hand, any theory that was compatible with all observations was non-scientific (University of Wisconsin,
Whitewater, 2002). Popper went on to argue that categorizing a theory as non-scientific does not make that theory meaningless or unenlightening; it is unscientific because it is unfalsifiable at a
specific time. It is possible that that same theory would become falsifiable, which would make it a scientific theory, at some point in the future as a result of technology
developments (University of Wisconsin, Whitewater, 2002). Or, the theory could become falsifiable with more articulation or refinement (University of Wisconsin, Whitewater, 2002). Furthermore, Popper said that even non-scientific theories that
have never been shown to be falsifiable have lent themselves to greater understanding of the nature of reality (University of Wisconsin, Whitewater, 2002). Popper made it clear that the central
or core problem in the philosophy of science had to do with demarcation, in other words, distinguishing between what he calls non-science and science (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2002). Under
the general heading of non-science, Popper included things like logic, metaphysics, psychoanalysis and Adlers individual psychology, all of which had significant followings at the time of his own writing (Stanford
Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2002). What Popper was doing was going against the commonly accepted premises of the day, which included the notion that science and non-science could be distinguished on
the basis of its inductive methodology (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2002). Popper argued instead that there was no unique methodology that was unique and exclusive to science (Stanford Encyclopedia of
Philosophy, 2002). Science, like every other field of endeavor, was comprised primarily of problem solving, in Poppers opinion (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2002). In place of induction, Popper uses falsifiability
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