quasiscience

plural quasisciences · alternative quasi-science

1. countableuncountableAn area of inquiry that makes use of some of the methods of science, but which fails to be a true science.

   On every level, this quasiscience tried to locate the tenor of nature that grounded all philosophy.

   1991, John M. Kloos, A Sense of Deity: The Republican Spirituality of Dr. Benjamin Rush

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   Bibliography series follows the by now familiar format, with some fifteen hundred annotated entries concentrating rather heavily on physics and philosophy but also including sections on schools and universities and on 'quasiscience'.

   1985, Alistair Cameron Crombie, Michael A. Hoskin, History of Science, page 441

   In India, one widely prevalent quasiscience, astrology, influences personal, interpersonal, public and even political decisions.

   1996, The Atheist - Volumes 28-29, page 144