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scientistic, a.|saɪənˈtɪstɪk|
[f. scientist + -ic.]
1. Characteristic of, or having the attributes of, a scientist. (Used depreciatively). rare.
1878T. Sinclair Mount 105 ‘The more the worse’, is the fearful political fact of the coming time; and it will by and bye be seen that scientistic free-trade is responsible for it. 1892Sat. Rev. 6 Aug. 160/1 The most conscientiously scientistic of scientists.
2. Of or pertaining to scientism (sense 2).
1942[see scientism 2]. 1943[see historicism 3]. 1952K. R. Popper Open Society & its Enemies (ed. 2) I. 286 A typical and influential scientistic argument in favour of historicism is, in brief, this: ‘We can predict eclipses; why should we not be able to predict revolutions?’ 1969Nature 2 Aug. 541/1 We must apply scientific method to social studies without being besotted by a scientistic philosophy and pragmatism. 1972Observer 30 Apr. 36/6 They regard his [sc. Russell's] kind of piecemeal, logically technical, scientistic philosophy as a covert ideological support for technological civilisation. 1980Times Lit. Suppl. 26 Sept. 1072/5 My remarks..should be put down to my own lack of sympathy with the scientistic vision which Thomas upholds.
Hence scienˈtistically adv.
1883Wright Dogm. Scepticism 12 All that may be scientifically true or scientistically false in connexion with bioplasmic theories. |