Summary Of "Falsificationism As A Criterion For Scientific Demarcation" By Karl Popper

We have summarized the essential of this book by the author.

Fallability and the problem of demarcation

With Karl Popper's work, through his constant criticism of the Vienna Circle and empiricism, there is a turning point, a great change in the history of epistemology.
Popper proposed a demarcation criterion - that is, a criterion that serves to delimit what is science from what is not - different from the one proposed by the authors of the Vienna Circle.
The criterion proposed by the latter was, as we have seen, the "verification of meaning" criterion, according to which only those propositions that could be verified empirically had scientific meaning.
On the other hand, according to Popper, only those statements that can be refuted, that is, "falsifiable" or "refutable" propositions, may form part of science.

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