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scientistic

Adjective

Meaning

scientistic (comparative more scientistic, superlative most scientistic)

Of, pertaining to, advocating, or acting in accordance with scientism.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

Science can only be comprehended epistemologically, which means as one category of possible knowledge, as long as knowledge is not equated either effusively with the absolute knowledge of a great philosophy or blindly with scientistic self-understanding of the actual business of research. Jürgen Habermas

It would have been a great disappointment to me if Vibration did not somewhere make itself felt, for all scientistic mystics either vibrate in person or find themselves resonant with cosmic vibrations; but I am happy to say that on page 266 Teilhard will be found to do so. Peter Medawar

The relative moral merits of any of us are in the final analysis only relevant to exponents of the theistic world picture; to those of scientistic inclination they might be socially useful but in the grand order of things can have no meaning in a soulless world. Simon Conway Morris

And the other world-picture?, one based not just on science but wedded to a scientistic programme. Well, you know it as well as I do. Here all is ultimately meaningless. Simon Conway Morris

This is a fine instance of the incomprehension, and the buzzkill, that often attends the extension of the scientistic temperament to literature and art. Source: Internet

The scientistic reading of literary texts is similarly uninstructive, and often quite risible. Source: Internet

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