#philosophy #knowledge #epistemology
# [[Epistemic status]]
#shower-thought
# The criterion of demarcation
>The problem of finding a criterion which would enable us to distinguish between the empirical sciences on the one hand, and mathematics and logic as well as ‘metaphysical’ systems on the other, I call the problem of demarcation
>~[[Karl Popper]]
What is #empirical and what is #metaphysical ?
What can be [[Philosophy/Epistemology/Falsifiability|falsified]] what cannot?
Can you falsify that there is no [[Philosophy/Rationality/Models/Black Swan|Black Swans]]? Would you need to check every particles in [[Our universe]]?
Isn't the criterion a tool to filter [[Signal]]s from [[Philosophy/Rationality/Anti model/Noise|noise]]?