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parascience|ˈpærəsaɪəns|
[f. para-1 + science.]
The study of phenomena assumed to be beyond the scope of scientific inquiry or for which no scientific explanation exists. So ˌparascienˈtific a., -ˈscientist.
1953Mind LXII. 360 [The fallacy] that I know about thinking by ‘observing’ myself thinking, whereby thought is transformed into a paraphysical object studied by a parascience of introspection. 1961Times Lit. Suppl. 1 Sept. 577/3 Time Travel, like hyperspace, is one of the classical Science-Fiction presumptions which, though abstruse mathematical discussion may give it para-scientific justification, is essentially a basis for fantasy. 1974Nature 8 Nov. 129/1 So much of the interpreting, let alone the theorising, of parascientists and parathinkers is based on seemingly natural occurrences which either cannot be fully corroborated according to the rules of evidence, or cannot be properly repeated according to the rules of experiment. 1975Ibid. 6 Nov. 22/1, I lumped them all [sc. telepathy, telekinesis, parapsychology, etc.] under the title ‘parascience’. 1976Word 1971 XXVII. 77 As we know very little about human language (a fact..little known to most parascientists..), any approach toward its analysis may contribute something to our understanding of the subject. |