Protoscience is a field of research that is in the early stages of development and has not yet been fully tested or confirmed by the scientific method.

Protoscience is characterized by new ideas, theories, and hypotheses that have not yet been widely accepted by the scientific community.

The term can also be used to refer to historical philosophical disciplines that existed before the development of the scientific method, but later became actual sciences.

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