Demarcation Criteria

What isdemarcation criteria? How should it be defined?

The definition of method' suggests that it can consist of different criteria for theory assessment. The Demarcation criteria is a criteria for determining whether a theory is scientific or unscientific. In order for a community to determine whether the theory is scientific, there needs to be some criteria of demarcation between science and non-science.

In the scientonomic context, this term was first used by Hakob Barseghyan in 2015. The term is currently accepted by Scientonomy community.

In Scientonomy, the accepted definition of the term is:

Criteria for determining whether a theory is scientific or unscientific.

Scientonomic History

Acceptance Record

Here is the complete acceptance record of this question (it includes all the instances when the question was accepted as a legitimate topic for discussion by a community):

Community	Accepted From	Acceptance Indicators	Still Accepted	Accepted Until	Rejection Indicators
Scientonomy	1 January 2016		Yes

All Theories

The following direct answers to the question have been suggested:

Theory	Formulation	Formulated In
Demarcation Criteria (Barseghyan-2015)	Criteria for determining whether a theory is scientific or unscientific.	2015

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Accepted Theories

The following theories have been accepted as direct answers to this question:

Community	Theory	Accepted From	Accepted Until
Scientonomy	Demarcation Criteria (Barseghyan-2015)	1 January 2016

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Current View

In Scientonomy, the accepted definition of the term is Demarcation Criteria (Barseghyan-2015).

Demarcation Criteria (Barseghyan-2015) states: "Criteria for determining whether a theory is scientific or unscientific."

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

References

^ Barseghyan, Hakob. (2015) The Laws of Scientific Change. Springer.