Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Making pretensions to scientific method, but really not in the right.
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- adjective Of, pertaining to, advocating, or acting in accordance with
scientism .
Etymologies
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Examples
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If I am not mistaken, psychology, psychiatry and some branches of sociology, not to speak about the so-called philosophy of history, are even more affected by what I have called the scientistic prejudice, and by specious claims of what science can achieve. 7
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Menand believes that Pinker's "scientistic" world view — that is, submitting everything, from painting to romantic love to empirical measurement — leads to a narrow and sometimes wrongheaded understanding of things.
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A few have the "scientistic" mind-set that Hayek attacks.
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It is an approach which has come to be described as the "scientistic" attitude - an attitude which, as I defined it some thirty years ago, "is decidedly unscientific in the true sense of the word, since it involves a mechanical and uncritical application of habits of thought to fields different from those in which they have been formed."
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It is an approach which has come to be described as the "scientistic" attitude
Lincoln vs Cadillac 2010
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For all his research and arresting vignettes, scientistic bluster overwhelms the book.
Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011
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Where is your outrage on scientistic fraudulantly adjusting climate data? ljwne
RNC purity test designed to 'stick it' to Steele, ally claims 2009
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This rejects the scientistic idea that “life” begins at conception, as well as the theological belief (currently embraced by the LDS Church) that there is no ensoulment – and hence no person – until implantation.
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Since you guys are adamant that ID not even be mentioned as a possible inference, the standard scientistic (metaphysical naturalism/materialism) inferences should be left out as well.
Crossroads 2009
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"Since you guys are adamant that ID not even be mentioned as a possible inference, the standard scientistic (metaphysical naturalism/materialism) inferences should be left out as well."
Crossroads 2009
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