Date: 2010-02-27 05:53 pm (UTC)
The term for this border patrolling is the "demarcation problem". Again I find much of it rather silly - the demarcation for me isn't between ideas that are scientific and those that aren;t, but between ideas that work (i.e. have instrumental value, make accurate predictions) and those that don't.

It happens to be the case that "scientific" ideas tend to be the instrumental ones, and this is I believe because "science" tends to pay a good deal more attention to instrumental value than non-science.

I uh.. hope that makes some kind of sense...
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