scientistic
- adjective
- /ˌsaɪənˈtɪstɪk/
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cientificista
- Many philosophers criticize the scientistic view that only empirical evidence is valuable in understanding human experience.
Examples
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The spokesman for the most scientific (even scientistic) of the modernist city-transformers was Hannes Meyer, successor to Gropius at the Dessau Bauhaus.
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"Scientistic rationale" influenced the development of modern economic theory, which led to the emergence of "modern man" as "a detached manipulator of the rest of the natural world, bringing to bear a humanist focus that located all value in human projects" (Spretnak 1997, 56-59).
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But am I right that what would it first appear to be a positive consequence of the scientistic worldview?
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That unwarranted confidence is part and parcel of our generally scientistic worldview.
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They are only useful tools in critiquing a modern, scientistic, over-rationalized consciousness.
Academic text (1992) -
This is totally against entrenched masculine scientistic approaches which insist we can know, but these are epistemes of dominance and power, not reality and knowledge.
Blog text (11) -
He realized, however, that it pertained to an order of experience which 19th-century "scientistic" thought deemed inadmissible as an object of critical reflection.
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Reviewing many of the new voices in the hermeneutical human sciences, theologian David Tracy concludes, "The effects of all scientistic models remain powerful, even pervasive, forces in the culture at large despite the intellectual bankruptcy of its reigning ideology."
Academic text (1992) -
There can be no doubt that Carlos Castañeda has inspired the popular imagination and that he is among the consequential challengers of the traditional rationalistic and scientistic paradigms.
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The author's scientistic approach led her to dismiss alternative methods of healing without consideration.
Synonyms
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Sticking to fixed ideas and refusing to change them even if they do not work
Focused on facts that you can see or measure and on scientific methods
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
Morphology
scientistic = science (semi-transparent) = scient + istic
Formed from the root related to 'science' plus the adjectival suffix '-istic'; the relation to 'science' is transparent, but the ideological sense ('excessive belief in science') is a nuanced semantic shift.
Etymology
Scientistic comes from science ('knowledge') and the ending -istic ('in the style of'), making it a way of thinking 'in the style of science'. So a scientistic view is a strong or one-sided belief in science that can ignore other views or human values.