Demarcation Criteria (Barseghyan-2015)

This is a definition of Demarcation Criteria that states "Criteria for determining whether a theory is scientific or unscientific."

This definition of Demarcation Criteria was formulated by Hakob Barseghyan in 2015.1 It is currently accepted by Scientonomy community as the best available definition of the term.

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Community	Accepted From	Acceptance Indicators	Still Accepted	Accepted Until	Rejection Indicators
Scientonomy	1 January 2016	The definition became de facto accepted by the community at that time together with the whole theory of scientific change.	Yes

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Demarcation Criteria (Barseghyan-2015) is an attempt to answer the following question: What is demarcation criteria? How should it be defined?

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Barseghyan provides only a quick discussion of demarcation criteria by noting that these are the criteria that aim to "determine whether a given theory is scientific or unscientific".1p. 9

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