scientistic
adjEtymology From scientism + -istic.
1
Of, pertaining to, advocating, or acting in accordance with scientism.
- Scientific models and scientistic myths are not seaworthy craft because they take as their premise that they are adequate for all circumstances; they assume that reality is knowable, quantifiable, and describable in their notation.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 87:
- Related terms
- science, scientician, scientism, scientist, Scientological, sciolism, sciolist