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  Dennis Hackethal addressed criticism #5502.

Neil Hudson says Popper’s criterion of demarcation doesn’t give us a way to form rational preferences. He implies: so why should HTV?

#5502​·​Dennis HackethalOP, 1 day ago

I reply:

The purpose of demarcation was to delineate science from non-science. That’s different from a criterion of rationality.

For such a criterion, Popper proposes measures of corroboration and verisimilitude. And he get pretty technical in defining those.