Folk science

Folk science (also known as "folk knowledge" or "folk classification" describes ways of understanding and predicting the natural and social world, without the use of formalized, rigorous, methodologies. One could label all understanding of nature predating the Greeks as "folk science". Folk science is often positioned in contrast to mechanistic or “clockwork” understandings of the world, where the function of each part and the relationship of all parts to each other is known in detail.

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