scientism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sek-?
Proto-Indo-European *-éyti
Proto-Indo-European *skey-der.
Latin sciō
Latin sciēns
Latin -ia
Latin scientialbor.
Old French sciencebor.
Middle English science
English science
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
English -ism
English scientism
From science + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: scientisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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 metaphysics at all. I say pseudometaphysics of the most vulgar type, because it combines all the prejudices of deterministic, mechanistic scientism with all the prejudices of irrationalism.
This claim, espoused by scientific naturalists, is called scientism, the view that science is the paradigm of truth and rationality. There are two forms of scientism: strong and weak. Strong scientism […]
This is the view of scientism. The historical roots of scientism can probably be traced to the Enlightenment with its ideology of progress and perfectibility. Perhaps its best-known historical advocate is the French social philosopher Auguste […]
Habermas's work of the middle and late 1960s is centrally concerned with the philosophical and sociological issues raised by scientism, the reduction of all knowledge to that furnished by the empirical sciences, where these are conceived as […]
'Scientism means ... that we no longer understand science as one form of possible knowledge, but rather identify knowledge with science.' Habermas's critique of scientism focuses on its relation to positivism, since positivism provides […]
First, I want to make clear that what I am attacking is not science but scientism: the mistaken belief that the natural sciences (physics, chemistry, biology and their derivatives) can or will give a complete description and even explanation of […]
gloss: The belief that all truth is exclusively discovered through science.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A pseudoscience.
pos: noun
tags: countable
rare
uncountable
examples: 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.
Derived words: scientistic
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: cientisme
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 唯科學主義 /唯科学主义
roman: wéikēxuézhǔyì
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 科學主義 /科学主义
roman: kēxuézhǔyì
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 科學至上主義 /科学至上主义
roman: kēxuézhìshàngzhǔyì
lang: Dutch
word: sciëntisme
lang: Finnish
word: skientismi
lang: French
word: scientisme
lang: Galician
word: cientifismo
lang: German
word: Szientismus
lang: Greek
word: επιστημονισμός
roman: epistimonismós
lang: Irish
word: eolaíochas
lang: Italian
word: scientismo
lang: Polish
word: scjentyzm
lang: Portuguese
word: cientificismo
lang: Russian
word: сциенти́зм
roman: scijentízm
lang: Spanish
word: cientificismo
lang: Welsh
word: gwyddonyddiaeth