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词汇 scientism
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Definition of scientism in English:

scientism

noun ˈsʌɪəntɪz(ə)mˈsaɪənˌtɪzəm
mass nounrare
  • 1Thought or expression regarded as characteristic of scientists.

    〈罕〉科学态度,科学信念

    1. 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.

Derivatives

  • scientistic

  • adjective 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:

scientism

nounˈsaɪənˌtɪzəmˈsīənˌtizəm
rare
  • 1Thought or expression regarded as characteristic of scientists.

    〈罕〉科学态度,科学信念

    1. 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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