scientistic
- adjective
- /ˌsaɪənˈtɪstɪk/
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cientificista
- In Rorty's case, for example, the truisms seem often to be those of conventional instrumentalist science and technology, and received Darwinism, as in Rorty's holding that there is no human nature (a scientistic truism), and that in education "there is only the shaping of an animal into a human being through socialization."
Examples
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The dominant worldview attempts to define the universe, its inhabitants, and their relationships through a scientistic methodology that explicitly excludes the existence of mystery.
Academic text (1992) -
The problem of taking seriously the diverse ways in which people in different parts of the world define themselves is exacerbated by the universalizing and scientistic pretensions of some streams of academic political science.
Academic text (2008) -
At best, Carroll's scientistic rhetoric just disguises the fact that his "theory" is not something wholly different from interpretation but a summary of many interpretive results.
Academic text (2001) -
This scientistic analysis of society, common to all social planning schemes, errs in assuming that all social issues can be studied solely in terms of the observable behavior of individuals comprising the social whole, without reference to their subjective states of mind, and in asserting that we may make meaningful statements about social collectives independent of their constituent components.
Academic text (1999) -
Critics argue that his scientistic approach fails to consider the emotional aspects of human experience.
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Many of the claims made in the report were criticized as being scientistic rather than genuinely scientific.
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The film presents a scientistic viewpoint that claims to explain human behavior through statistics alone.
Synonyms
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5.1
Not based on careful tests and reliable facts
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Ideas or methods that look like real science but have no proof
A person who knows only a little about a subject but acts like they know a lot
How Scientific
Surface Forms
Morphology
scientistic = science (semi-transparent) = scient + istic
Formed from the root related to 'science' plus the adjectival suffix '-istic'; the link to 'science' is visible but the negative, evaluative sense (close to 'scientism' or 'pseudo-scientific') is specialized and not entirely predictable for learners.
Etymology
Scientistic comes from science ('knowledge') plus the ending -istic ('in the style of'), so it literally means 'in the style of science'. That's why something described as scientistic may sound scientific but actually lacks real scientific evidence.