scientism
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scientism
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From scient- (in either Classical Latin scientia or scientific) + -ism. Compare scientist.
noun scientisms
- The belief that the scientific method and the assumptions and research methods of the physical sciences are applicable to all other disciplines (such as the humanities and social sciences), or that those other disciplines are not as valuable. Finally, with good reason, this psychology aims to be a psychology of a purely empiriological type. It is pervaded and overwhelmed on every side, however, by a pseudometaphysics of the most vulgar character, which Freud is all the less anxious to dispense with as he imagines he has no philosophy or
- The belief that all truth is exclusively discovered through science.
- A pseudoscience. The line is straight out of eugenics, the deeply dishonest scientism that in the early 20th century convinced many people that criminality, poverty and a host of other ills were all inherited.
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noun belief
| Español | cientificismo |
|---|---|
| 中文 | 唯科學主義 /唯科学主义 wéikēxuézhǔyì, 科學主義 /科学主义 kēxuézhǔyì, 科學至上主義 /科学至上主义 kēxuézhìshàngzhǔyì |
| Português | cientificismo |
| Français | scientisme |
| Deutsch | Szientismus |
| Italiano | scientismo |
| Ελληνικά | επιστημονισμός epistimonismós |
| Русский | сциенти́зм scijentízm |
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