#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]]?