scientificness love

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  • noun The quality or state of being scientific.

Etymologies

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scientific +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • Polls taken at the same time are just barely consistent given their margins of error, the "plus or minus 3 percentage points" that gives them the aura of scientificness.

    The Science Of Polling 2008

  • Are you equating “scientificness” with amenability to precision measurement?

    Theories, laws, facts Sean 2005

  • My rocket scientificness also needz more practice; can’t keep launching into neighbors’ house.

    Mah brothah… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • I don’t think that ’scientificness’ (in the sense of ‘falsifiability’) is a measure of worth for anything other than how scientific something is; that I don’t think that evolution is as scientific as other theories isn’t a measure of the theory’s worth.

    Theories, laws, facts Sean 2005

  • In any case, I would reiterate that I put no merit in the idea of ’scientificness’ or falsifiability as some sort of a criterion of objective worth in any case.

    Theories, laws, facts Sean 2005

  • Just because the study was sufficiently thorough in its “scientificness” doesn’t mean that we can deduce from it what we please.

    The Myth of the New Anti-Semitism | Jewschool 2004

  • "scientific minds" who make use of science, because it gives a gay appearance, and because scientificness leads to the conclusion that a person is superficial -- they WISH to mislead to

    Beyond Good and Evil Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 1872

  • Hear, for instance, with what innocence -- almost worthy of honour -- Schopenhauer represents his own task, and draw your conclusions concerning the scientificness of a "Science" whose latest master still talks in the strain of children and old wives: "The principle," he says (page 136 of the Grundprobleme der Ethik), [Footnote: Pages 54-55 of Schopenhauer's Basis of

    Beyond Good and Evil Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 1872

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