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Philosophy of science

the problem of drawing a principled line between science and non-science, which the source argues has no satisfactory solution.

In philosophy of science, demarcation problem refers to the problem of drawing a principled line between science and non-science, which the source argues has no satisfactory solution. This meaning comes from Laudan (1983) in Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science.[1]

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References

Laudan, L. (1983). The Demise of the Demarcation Problem. In Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science (pp. 111-127). Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7055-7_6

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