PHIL-P 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Pseudoscience, Karl Popper, Inductive Reasoning
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In the world of science where things follow a general rule/trend inductive inferences have a very important role to play and should be held to a higher standard. Their is no deductive reason to believe that it will be cold this winter season: the demarcation problem was a question designed by karl popper on how to distinguish science and pseudoscience. He concluded that in order for a theory/notion to be considered science it must be able to be shown as false in a situation that it is indeed false. The marxist theory for example, in early stages its predictions were deemed false, in response to this the followers of marx reinterpreted the theory and the evidence to prove it true and ultimately irrefutable. This change they applied to it destroyed its claim to scientific status: popper changed his mind on verification as originally he believed that one could easily verify their notion if they were actively looking for confirmatory evidence.
