prescientific
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- adjective
- /ˌprɛsɪənˈtɪfɪk/
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prescientífico
- Educational systems in the past were often prescientific, focusing on traditional beliefs rather than empirical evidence.
Examples
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Most prescientific conceptions of the basic elements regarded water (along with earth, fire, and air, at least in the classical Greek formulation) as one of the few fundamental principles of cosmic construction.
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Buddhist psychology, like other indigenous psychologies, is prescientific, but it is so only in the narrow sense that it developed prior to and outside the context of modern Western science.
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Political science must not leave things to prescientific common sense.
Academic text (2018) -
The second, an inheritance from the prescientific past, operates by rules of its own, having little in common with those of the matter-energy system.
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In Strauss's view, it was necessary to reaffirm the dignity of the political by returning to a natural, or prescientific, understanding of the political.
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The foremost reason is that we cannot talk sensibly or wisely about political life if we do not grasp it in the prescientific way in which it ordinarily presents itself to us.
Academic text (2018) -
There is nothing "pre-scientific" about the Church's view that the human embryo is a human being; indeed, this view is confirmed by the findings of science which overturned the long-accepted prescientific views of Aristotle on reproduction.
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Scripts of the mid-1900s incited prescientific emotions associated in the popular mind with the childhood of our race: hysteria, fright, primitive instincts, and superstition.
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Many ancient cultures relied on prescientific methods to explain natural phenomena, such as floods and droughts.
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In the prescientific era, people often attributed illness to spiritual forces rather than seeking medical explanations.
Synonyms
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From a time before modern technology and ideas
Ideas and methods from before modern science that lack clear proof
How Scientific
Surface Forms
Morphology
prescientific = scientific (transparent) = pre + science + ific
The prefix 'pre-' combines in a standard way with 'scientific' to mean 'existing before the scientific period or before modern science'.
Etymology
Prescientific combines pre- meaning 'before' and scientific, from science meaning 'study' or 'knowledge'. So prescientific describes ideas or methods that existed 'before' modern science.