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Would these claims be scientific?
Is astrology a science?
If not, what distinguishes it from real science?
The 20th century viennese born philosopher Karl Popper gave an answer, but it's not one that convinces Massimo Pellucci he has an alternative proposal for demarcating science from pseudoscience.
Massimo Pelucci, welcome to frosty bites.
It's a pleasure to be here.
The topic we're going to focus on is the demarcation problem.
What is that?
That's a term that was coined by Karl Popper at the beginning of the 20th century, and it indicates the question of what exactly separates science from non science in general, and more specifically, science from pseudo science.
So what criterion did popper use to make that demarcation between science and pseudoscience?
Well, he famously thought that he had solved the problem very nicely and very clearly.
So he introduced what he called the criterion of falsification.