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1. Philosophy Of Science

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   A central preoccupation of 20th-century philosophy of science involved establishing a criterion to separate genuine science from pseudoscience. Early logical positivist approaches, particularly those associated with the Vienna Circle, championed verifiability as the criterion. A statement was considered meaningful and scientific only if it could, in principle, be empirically verified.
   This principle struggled when confronted with universal la…