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    Challenges→The claim of Buddhism's compatibility with science has been an enduring feature of the debate, despite shifts in what both concepts mean

    Unfalsifiable compatibility claims are philosophically trivial, as noted in Laudan's critique of demarcation criteria.

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    • 1.Laudan showed that unfalsifiable criteria cannot distinguish science from non-science, making them logically vacuous for demarcation purposes.
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    • 2.Claims about compatibility that resist all possible empirical tests lack explanatory power and contribute nothing to philosophical understanding.
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    • 3.If a compatibility thesis survives every conceivable counterexample, it says nothing substantive about the actual relationship between domains.
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    • 1.Unfalsifiability doesn't entail triviality; some true claims about logical possibility resist empirical falsification but remain philosophically important.
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    • 2.Laudan's critique targeted specific demarcation criteria, not all unfalsifiable claims; compatibility claims operate in different logical space.
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    • 3.Conceptual truths and normative frameworks are often unfalsifiable yet philosophically substantive, undermining the triviality dismissal.
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