Nonscience vs Antiscience - What's the difference?
nonscience | antiscience |
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.
Opposed to science and scientific progress.
The abuse or rejection of traditional science; scholarship in which traditional science is abused or disregarded.
* 2007 , Martin Griffiths, International relations theory for the twenty-first century (page 95)
As nouns the difference between nonscience and antiscience
is that nonscience is that which is not science, or a specific non-scientific field while antiscience is the abuse or rejection of traditional science; scholarship in which traditional science is abused or disregarded.As an adjective antiscience is
opposed to science and scientific progress.nonscience
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Alternative forms
*non-scienceNoun
(en noun)citation
antiscience
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Adjective
(-)- "Given the historical record and recent events, if there is anyone left who sincerely believes that a severely technology challenged John McSame serving out George Bush's third, batshit crazy, antiscience term would be a more reliable patron of legitimate science than Barack Obama, please, let me know." - DailyKos
Noun
- Genealogies are antisciences . Of course, genealogy is not an unproblematic enterprise, since it is a struggle against forms of power that are associated with certain forms of (scientific) knowledge.
