A veritable religious belief that Science and the scientific method is the only valid and reliable way of truly knowing reality ( SIMILAR: Modernism, Naturalism )
The philosophy that the methods of the natural or phsyical sciences are universally valid, and therefore should apply to the social sciences and humanities as well
almost religious belief that science can answer all questions and solve all problems
The belief that the methods of natural science, or the categories and things recognized in natural science, form the only proper elements in any philosophical or other inquiry The classic statement of scientism is Rutherford's statement that "there is physics and there is stamp-collecting " (Not surprisingly, Rutherford was a physicist )
Excessive dependence on the analytic mode in interpreting and operating in reality; the analytic counterpart to newage The worldview most often associated with 'applied science', it contends that reality can only be defined in terms of a consistent ordering of physically-describable causal connections: theory, it assumes, must precede practice, with the intuitive mode to be rigorously excluded Apparently common sense, but in practice erroneous, its claim of absolute proof of its worldview is based on a largely outdated materialistic concept of science, and founders on paradoxes such as infinite regress
The belief that the assumptions, methods of research, etc. of the physical and biological sciences are equally appropriate and essential in all other disciplines including the humanities and the social sciences
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