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Philosophical Perspectives on Science and Pseudoscience
The chapter explores the demarcation problem in science, contrasting the perspectives of Karl Popper and the Vienna Circle on falsifiability with Thomas Kuhn's paradigm shifts. It discusses the evolution of scientific concepts like gravity from Newtonian physics to Einstein's general relativity and highlights the criteria for distinguishing between science and pseudoscience.