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Pseudoscience vs Nonscience - What's the difference?

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Nonscience is a related term of pseudoscience.



As nouns the difference between pseudoscience and nonscience

is that pseudoscience is any body of knowledge purported to be scientific or supported by science but which fails to comply with the scientific method while nonscience is that which is not science, or a specific non-scientific field.

pseudoscience

Noun

(en noun)
  • Any body of knowledge purported to be scientific or supported by science but which fails to comply with the scientific method.
  • Derived terms

    {{der3, pseudoscientific , pseudoscientifically , pseudoscientist}}

    See also

    * parascience

    nonscience

    English

    Alternative forms

    *non-science

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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 citation
  • , 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.