Pataphysics is a concept first espoused by the artist Alfred Jarry around 1900. It has many definitions, including the science of imaginary solutions and the laws governing exceptions, the science of the particular, pataphysics is to metaphysics as metaphysics is to physics, pataphysics includes metaphysics and physics but also goes beyond both, it is the science of the useless, it is a serious science but at the same time does not take itself too seriously.
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