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Definition of scientism in English: scientismnoun ˈsʌɪəntɪz(ə)mˈsaɪənˌtɪzəm mass nounrare 1Thought or expression regarded as characteristic of scientists. 〈罕〉科学态度,科学信念 - 1.1 Excessive belief in the power of scientific knowledge and techniques.
唯科学主义 Example sentencesExamples - It is merely the capitulation of religion before the idol of scientism (itself a form of religious belief).
- The argument will proceed as follows: In Sections II and III, the emphasis will be on the problem of scientism.
- The idea of segregating intellectuals and academics from the political realm basically emerged with the modernist thinking of scientism and logical positivism after the Enlightenment.
- Then, inspired by mid-19th-century French scientism, he adopted stricter methods in studying modern battle.
- This is a complicated bit of scientism designed to quantify the effects of illnesses in terms of years of life lost.
- Our intellectual culture demands that every idea or phenomenon be subjected to the unrelenting rigour of rationalism, or excesses of scientism.
- Philosophy at its best nurtures a healthy, non-destructive scepticism, and this kind of attitude towards science will serve to protect us against the excesses of scientism much more than a wholesale anti-scientific outlook.
- That anterior project, he finds, embodies a lingering conflict between technocratic scientism and humanist aestheticism, a duality that ‘haunts’ the practice of photography, generally.
- Although they cite Francis Bacon as a leading spokesman for an instrumentalized reason that becomes irrational, they do not think that modern science and scientism are the sole culprits.
- Museology and art history have long remained under the sway of scientism.
- The latter is after all a stern critic of positivism and scientism.
- Nonetheless, he is deeply skeptical of any version of scientific truth that smacks of mere scientism or the tendency to see progress as both inevitable and ‘unqualifiedly good in its results.’
- What he refused to tolerate was the prevalent fallacy of scientism - the denial of everything that is not susceptible to a scientific explanation.
- Proto-fascism was part of a huge range of ideas, including mysticism and scientism, traditionalism and modernism, reason and unreason.
- For Max Weber, the creation of consonant harmony was a rational product of Western scientism.
- For this reason, a merely mechanical scientism does not provide enough fuel for the creative fire.
- Fundamentalist and survivalist groups that promote apocalyptic visions also benefit from the scientism of Y2K fright.
- Indeed, unity is an indispensable plank in the doctrine of scientism, the philosophical underpinning of totalitarian regimes.
- So I respond to the German philosophical tradition in terms of its recoil from scientism.
- One possibility should not be excluded in advance: that science would move away from the reductionism and crude materiality of scientism and yet that state of affairs would not help the religious imagination at all.
Derivativesadjective sʌɪənˈtɪstɪk rare Certainly, the expert volumes - medical and theological - in which she discovers her identity at first appear to impose themselves upon her with a scientistic authority in the forms of taxonomy and case history. Example sentencesExamples - There is no National Association for the Advancement of Scientism, and in fact there is not even a word to label a person who engages in scientism (engaging in scientistic behavior doesn't make you a scientist).
- There will be those - doubtless they will be many - who object that what I have said here reveals a narrow, scientistic rationalism.
- Perhaps we shall begin to think again about our secularised, scientistic, self-actualising world view.
- That wealth allows us to indulge in what are often goofily scientistic attempts to stack up quantitative ‘knowledge’ about men's minds.
Definition of scientism in US English: scientismnounˈsaɪənˌtɪzəmˈsīənˌtizəm rare 1Thought or expression regarded as characteristic of scientists. 〈罕〉科学态度,科学信念 - 1.1 Excessive belief in the power of scientific knowledge and techniques.
唯科学主义 Example sentencesExamples - What he refused to tolerate was the prevalent fallacy of scientism - the denial of everything that is not susceptible to a scientific explanation.
- Nonetheless, he is deeply skeptical of any version of scientific truth that smacks of mere scientism or the tendency to see progress as both inevitable and ‘unqualifiedly good in its results.’
- One possibility should not be excluded in advance: that science would move away from the reductionism and crude materiality of scientism and yet that state of affairs would not help the religious imagination at all.
- Indeed, unity is an indispensable plank in the doctrine of scientism, the philosophical underpinning of totalitarian regimes.
- Although they cite Francis Bacon as a leading spokesman for an instrumentalized reason that becomes irrational, they do not think that modern science and scientism are the sole culprits.
- This is a complicated bit of scientism designed to quantify the effects of illnesses in terms of years of life lost.
- The argument will proceed as follows: In Sections II and III, the emphasis will be on the problem of scientism.
- For Max Weber, the creation of consonant harmony was a rational product of Western scientism.
- That anterior project, he finds, embodies a lingering conflict between technocratic scientism and humanist aestheticism, a duality that ‘haunts’ the practice of photography, generally.
- Then, inspired by mid-19th-century French scientism, he adopted stricter methods in studying modern battle.
- Philosophy at its best nurtures a healthy, non-destructive scepticism, and this kind of attitude towards science will serve to protect us against the excesses of scientism much more than a wholesale anti-scientific outlook.
- It is merely the capitulation of religion before the idol of scientism (itself a form of religious belief).
- So I respond to the German philosophical tradition in terms of its recoil from scientism.
- The idea of segregating intellectuals and academics from the political realm basically emerged with the modernist thinking of scientism and logical positivism after the Enlightenment.
- Museology and art history have long remained under the sway of scientism.
- Our intellectual culture demands that every idea or phenomenon be subjected to the unrelenting rigour of rationalism, or excesses of scientism.
- Proto-fascism was part of a huge range of ideas, including mysticism and scientism, traditionalism and modernism, reason and unreason.
- The latter is after all a stern critic of positivism and scientism.
- Fundamentalist and survivalist groups that promote apocalyptic visions also benefit from the scientism of Y2K fright.
- For this reason, a merely mechanical scientism does not provide enough fuel for the creative fire.
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