superscience

noun

superscience

noun

Etymology From super- + science.

1

A discipline comprehending more than one science.

  • What we need is a superscience, a science of the higher nature or of the spirit, a science dealing with the whole arena of purposes and significance and the transformation of being and the laws pertaining to them.2002, Ravi Ravindra, Science and the Sacred: Eternal Wisdom in a Changing World, page 129:
  • By conventional standards, both psychoanalytic and materialist feminist philosophy of science fall short of their ambitions to be supersciences: the science of science. Neither presents an adequate empirical basis.2001, Marianne Sawicki, Body, Text, and Science, page 250:

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