Parascience is a broad category of academic disciplines, that are outside the scope of scientific study, or examine phenomena that are not recognised to exist physically. The term covers "non-scientific practices” that are not “pseudoscientific", for example history, philosophy, art, and religion.[1]
Parascience is not pseudoscience. Parascience does not claim to be scientific, unlike pseudoscience, but can work to support scientific disciplines.
See also
- Alternative medicine – health-related ideas that are not accepted by conventional medicine
- Fringe science – science-related ideas that are not accepted by mainstream science
- Non-science – academic fields that aren't science, e.g., art
- Occult science
- Paranormal
- Parapsychology
- Protoscience – early efforts at understanding the natural and social sciences
- Pseudo-scholarship – claims to be scholarly, but isn't
References
- ^ Hansson, Sven Ove (2017). Saeed, Masood (ed.). The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (23 June 2020 ed.). Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University.