scientisticadj.

1878 T. 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.

1892 Sat. Rev. 6 Aug. 160/1 The most conscientiously scientistic of scientists.

1909 K. Feininger Exper. Psychol. Music 220 The phenomenal intrinsicalities of either the artistic or scientistic output of the creative or synthetic or analytic mind.

2003 Sci. Amer. June 23/1 If you can sprinkle your homiletics with scientistic jargon, so much the better.

1879 Methodist Q. Rev. Jan. 155 The scientistic haranguer is indebted to the religion he attacks for the reckless notoriety he attains. That notoriety is a premium upon scientistic (not scientific) irreligion.

1942 F. A. von Hayek in Economica 9 269 We shall wherever we are concerned, not with the general spirit of disinterested inquiry but with that slavish imitation of the method and language of science, speak of ‘scientism’ or the ‘scientistic’ prejudice.

1952 K. R. Popper Open Society (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?’

1980 Times 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.

2001 Brit. Jrnl. Hist. Sci. 34 119/1 I very much doubt whether he would have survived the positivistic and scientistic intellectual milieu of either Berlin or Göttingen.

1882 Methodist Q. Rev. Oct. 752 That Adam [i.e. the first true human, as opposed to anthropoid animals], reasoning scientistically, may have been billions and trillions of years ago.

1967 G. van Groningen First Cent. Gnosticism vii. 179 This dualism of Gnosticism then is placed between two aspects of the cosmos, both essentially material, scientistically conceived and knowable.

2010 M. A. E. Dummett Nature & Future of Philos. v. 34 The scientistically inclined treat the science of their day as final truth, ignoring contention between rival theories.