 However, while the detail of this psychoanalytic response to Popper is contestable, what is perhaps most striking and important about it is that, as articulated by Grünbaum, it is itself couched in broad terms of an acceptance of a Popperian account of science. That is to say, in rejecting the claim that psychoanalysis fails to meet the standard of falsifiability specified by Popper, Grünbaum—who also rejects the hermeneutic interpretation of Freud offered by thinkers such as Paul Ricoeur and Jurgen Habermas—nonetheless implicitly accepts that very standard, and with it the broad sweep of Popper’s theory of demarcation. For that reason alone, it seems clear that Popper’s work will continue to function as a critical reference point in the ongoing debate regarding the scientific status of Freudian thought.