Astrology vs Nonscience - What's the difference?
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Divination]] about human affairs or natural phenomena from the relative positions of [[celestial body, celestial bodies.
* c. 1390 , (Geoffrey Chaucer), Canterbury Tales , Harleian manuscript:
* 1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society 2012, p. 274:
* 2012 , The Guardian , (headline), 7 Feb 2012:
That which is not science, or a specific non-scientific field
*{{quote-book, 2002, Shelby D. Hunt & Dennis B. Arnett, chapter=Philosophical-Methodological Foundations, The Elgar Companion to Consumer Research and Economic Psychology, editors=Earl & Kemp
, passage=Relativists maintain that there are no fundamental differences between sciences and nonsciences .}}
A body, set, or system of information, methods, beliefs, and hypotheses (such as astrology or chiromancy) that does not use the scientific method as a basis for observation, or development of a theory.
As nouns the difference between astrology and nonscience
is that astrology is divination about human affairs or natural phenomena from the relative positions of celestial bodies while nonscience is that which is not science, or a specific non-scientific field.astrology
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(wikipedia astrology)Noun
(en-noun)- a pore scoler / had lerned art but al his fantasye / was torned for to lerne astrologye […].
- For if astronomy is the study of the movements of the heavens, then astrology is the study of the effects of those movements.
- Followers of pseudosciences such as astrology often draw spurious parallels between their beliefs and established science.
Synonyms
* , astromancySee also
* astronomynonscience
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Alternative forms
*non-scienceNoun
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