Karl Popper And Thomas Kuhn 2

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Both articles appear in the textbook to this class. In the article, "Science: Conjectures and Refutations", Karl Popper attempts to describe the criteria that a theory must meet for it to be considered scientific. He calls this puzzle the problem of demarcation. Popper summarizes his arguments by saying, "the criterion of the scientific status of a theory is its falsifiability, or refutability, or testability...
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He claims that he differs with Popper in the methods that he uses to arrive at his conclusions. Kuhn says that if a line of demarcation is to be sought between science and non-science, we shouldn't look for a "sharp or decisive" one, because science is not objective, as Popper would have us believe, but subjective...
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