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Protoscience - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | In the philosophy of science, a protoscience is an "area of science" which is in its formulative or speculative stages, and may in the future become established as a science, or be discarded as a falsified claim or unfruitful approach. |
 | | Protoscience is a term sometimes used to describe a hypothesis which has not yet been tested adequately by the scientific method, but which is otherwise consistent with existing science or which, where inconsistent, offers reasonable account of the inconsistency. |
 | | But while protoscience is often speculative, certain claims may be distinguished from pseudoscience by at least a partial adherence to the scientific method —most notably an acceptance of falsifiability and an expectation of developing toward becoming an operant and predictive theory. |
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