"nobody to date has yet found a demarcation criterion according to which Darwin can be described as scientific"
--Imre lakotos in 1973
(In reply, I'd say that nobody to date has found a demarcation criterion according to which any theory about events in the past can be described as scientific.)
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Kuhn is essential reading. Popper's model of science is a good start but ultimately too simple.
More radical still than Thomas Kuhn is Paul Feyerabend's Against Method.
My own views are probably closer to those of Imre Lakatos.
Obligate trolling Lakatos quote:
"nobody to date has yet found a demarcation criterion according to which Darwin can be described as scientific"
--Imre lakotos in 1973
(In reply, I'd say that nobody to date has found a demarcation criterion according to which any theory about events in the past can be described as scientific.)
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