THE LIMITS OF FALSEABILITY AS DEMARCATION CRITERIA TO SCIENTIFICITY
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Karl Popper, Falseability, Demarcation criterionAbstract
The aim of this present paper is to indicate the limits of the scientific demarcation criteria proposed by Popper. The problem of demarcation has been object of concern in different time in history. However, the twentieth century was accompanied by intense debates and elaboration of different criteria that could demarcate scientific knowledge of the others. It is also well-known that Karl Popper was the most significant thinker with the falsifiability criterion. Yet, the purely negative character of the scientific enterprise, under its unicriteria approach comprises a kind of inverted positivism, where their limitations present a demarcation criterion that is not necessary and/or sufficient for scientificityDownloads
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