speculativism

noun

speculativism

noun

Etymology From speculative + -ism.

1

An approach based on speculation rather than any formal method.

At any rate, from the point of view of proper science, it marks an important step back, a step towards increased speculativism, the method of the alchemists.2011, Jan Mulder, Foundations of Axiomatic Linguistics, page 9:

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