scientism
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9.1
- noun
- /ˈsaɪənˌtɪzəm/
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cientificismo
- If ever there was a good example of "scientism" at work, this podcast was one.
- critics of scientism
- forms of scientism
- scientific method before scientism
How do you avoid falling into the trap of scientism or, or pseudoscientific traps?
- How do you avoid falling into the trap of scientism or, or pseudoscientific traps?
- Most of their arguments are rather old, you know, are drawing heavily on scientism.
Examples
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Many people argue that scientism limits our understanding by dismissing other ways of knowing.
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Being indifferent to scientism is not the same as disparaging science.
Academic text (1990) -
I mean, the short answer is that by scientism we, we mean the belief that science is all the real knowledge there is.
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From the beginning, scientism as applied to the study of international relations raised hackles.
Academic text (1990) -
There does seem to me to be a real problem with scientism or an over-reliance on concrete thought.
Blog text (9) -
His critique of modern science is a severe criticism of scientism as the main cultural paradigm of modernity.
Academic text (2016) -
The first divide is between religion and secular humanist scientism, and the other is between morality and legality.
Blog text (29) -
At the qualitative end of the social sciences, this has involved a move toward the humanities, away from scientism and logocentric metanarratives.
Academic text (2010) -
Partly this was also because Jung was, by intellectual temperament, less bound than Freud by nineteenth-century scientism.
Academic text (1990) -
Modern socialization structures our understanding of the world via objectivism, rationalism, the mechanistic worldview, reductionism, and scientism.
Academic text (2000)
Antonyms
- Formal
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8.2
A belief that feelings, faith, or the unconscious mind matter more than logic
How Pro-Science
Surface Forms
Morphology
scientism = science (transparent) = scient + ism
Built from the recognizable base 'science' plus the ideological/Doctrinal suffix '-ism', so the meaning 'a belief/system centered on science' is predictable.
Etymology
Scientism combines science, which comes from the Latin scientia meaning 'knowledge' and scire meaning 'to know', with the ending -ism that marks a belief. So scientism means the belief that scientific 'knowledge' is the only or best way to understand everything.