Scientisisation

Tracing the hybrid mark from its origins among 15th-century Italian humanists, her story describes early attempts to “scientize” language through grammar rules and raises questions about who made—and didn’t make—those rules. And with examples drawn from literature, legal history, and her own life as a “reformed grammar fetishist,” Watson seeks to persuade readers to learn to love the semicolon. Her comments have been edited and condensed.
--- Sean Carr"By Author "Sean Carr, AB’90 | The University of Chicago Magazine — Summer/19". https://mag.uchicago.edu/arts-humanities/are-you-afraid-semicolon
Scientism
Pseudo-scientism; Scientization
Science-influenced ideology
Pretense at science; Claim to