English Dictionary

scientism

名詞

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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.

日本語の意味

科学的手法および物理科学の前提、研究方法を全ての学問分野（人文科学や社会科学を含む）に適用すべきだとする思想、またはそれ以外の学問の価値を低く見る信念

The university's new curriculum was criticized for its scientism, prioritizing lab-based research while dismissing literary and historical perspectives.

その大学の新しいカリキュラムは、科学主義（科学的方法がすべての分野に適用されるとする考え）を優先し、文学や歴史の視点を軽視しているとして批判された。

意味（1）

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.

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 iwth 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.

意味（2）

The belief that all truth is exclusively discovered through science.

scientisms （ plural ）