Marxism is a science

Yoshie Furuhashi furuhashi.1 at osu.edu
Mon Dec 31 16:07:15 PST 2001


Ravi says:


>Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
>>Cian says:
>>
>>>Because the statements of Marx could not be
>>>falsifiable, Marxism is not scientific.
>>
>>
>>You have yet to prove your hypothesis that "the statements of Marx
>>couldn't be falsifiable."
>>
>>BTW, is Popper's theory falsifiable?
>
>i do not know where you are going with that question, but i will
>take it down this possibly wrong direction: popper's theory is
>not scientific (its meta-scientific) and does not need to be
>falsifiable.

What is the demarcation criterion that distinguishes "scientific" from "meta-scientific" theories?

How do you judge which "meta-scientific" theories are true, false, better, worse, more accurate, less accurate, progressive, degenerative, etc.? -- Yoshie

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