ABSTRACT In this article, I develop a philosophical framework, or ‘metacriterion’, for the demarcation of pseudoscience. Firstly, ‘gradualist demarcation’ is discussed in depth, considering an approach to the demarcation problem that presupposes the existence of a spectrum between science and pseudoscience; six general problems are found by means of this analysis. Secondly, based on the subsequent discussion of these problems, a discriminant metacriterion composed of four philosophical requirements is proposed. Lastly, it is shown that this metacriterion is able to guide the development of a workable and well-founded demarcation criterion for pseudoscience.

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伪科学像海鸥吗？判别元判据有助于解决分界问题

摘要在本文中，我为伪科学的界线开发了一个哲学框架，即“ metacriterion”。首先，对“渐进式划界”进行了深入讨论，其中考虑了一种以科学和伪科学之间的频谱为前提的划界问题的方法。通过这种分析发现了六个普遍的问题。其次，基于对这些问题的后续讨论，提出了由四个哲学要求组成的判别元判据。最后，证明了这种元判据能够指导伪科学的可行且有充分根据的划分标准的发展。