A few have the "scientistic" mind-set that Hayek attacks. From Wordnik.com. [From the Quaint to the Bizarre: Jeff Friedman on Hayek, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
It is an approach which has come to be described as the "scientistic" attitude. From Wordnik.com. [Lincoln vs Cadillac] Reference
Extreme relativism is a reaction to scientistic hubris. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-10-01] Reference
Smith in an article entitled The plague of scientistic belief. From Wordnik.com. [Scientism and Traditionalism] Reference
I am not advocating some sort of narrowly scientistic way of thinking. From Wordnik.com. [The God Delusion]
Second, it adamantly refuses to acquiesce to the scientistic worldview. From Wordnik.com. [Huston Smith - Why Religion Matters (2)] Reference
It's clear the scientistic Dunfords and their kind don't understand this. From Wordnik.com. [Cleaning Up The Mess] Reference
Citing Einstein vs. Bohr as scientistic faith vs. true reason forgets this. From Wordnik.com. [Bukiet on Brooklyn Books] Reference
Where is your outrage on scientistic fraudulantly adjusting climate data? ljwne. From Wordnik.com. [RNC purity test designed to 'stick it' to Steele, ally claims] Reference
When it becomes scientistic rather than scientific, based on dogma rather than doubt. From Wordnik.com. [Bukiet on Brooklyn Books] Reference
They also often have scientistic leanings, since modern science has been so successful. From Wordnik.com. [Intelligent Design explained: Part 2 random search - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
This is part of the scientistic pseudo-experimentalism that many economists like to engage in. From Wordnik.com. [Becker and Posner Cannot Avoid A Priori Reasoning - The Austrian Economists] Reference
So now there's some scientistic version of FoxNews Propaganda Network, and you are its prophet?. From Wordnik.com. [A View: The Science=Atheism Meme] Reference
I hope Dr. MacNeil makes it an exciting and challenging, though non-scientistic, course as well. From Wordnik.com. [The Memory Hole] Reference
Its point was that the scientistic faith it was criticising was neither provable nor falsifiable. From Wordnik.com. [Bukiet on Brooklyn Books] Reference
Popper attacked such scientistic conceits more than 60 years ago Freud also being one of his targets. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Professors and Intelligent Design:] Reference
Not outside the scientific paradigm, rather, outside the paradigm of a scientism or scientistic world view. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
The error that most theists commit is seeking to enter into debate with scientistic naturalism on its terms. From Wordnik.com. [Theism defended] Reference
Wolfgang Smith in The plague of scientistic belief as "philosophical opinions that masquerade as scientific truths.". From Wordnik.com. [Schönborn, Science, and Scientism] Reference
The fundamental rule of economics is that you MUST be scientistic in your work and you must never question that approach. From Wordnik.com. [In Defense of Macroeconomists, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
That would require more work and more fairness than polemicists on the scientistic side, at any rate, are likely to show. From Wordnik.com. [In Gods We Trust?] Reference
Assumptions of this sort help define what count as scientific and shape scientistic or naturalized philosophical projects. From Wordnik.com. [The Unity of Science] Reference
I expect to see more of this egregious nonsense as the scientistic worldview deteriorates, releasing its grip on our minds. From Wordnik.com. [I.Q. (Intelligence Quackery)] Reference
In fact, you can find it in atheism too, I think, in the scientistic reverence for the absolute truth of a "Grand Equation". From Wordnik.com. [THE HALLS OF PENTHEUS -- PART FIVE] Reference
A reader of scientistic fiction, for example, might reject the work of a writer of scientific fancy as "not Science Fiction". From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-07-01] Reference
The pseudoscientific notion of "utility" is the original scientistic error of the economists -- traceable back to James Mill. From Wordnik.com. [How Markets Value the Welfare of the Poor: Follow-up to A Non-Socratic Dialogue, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
But as already noted, these “facts” turn out to be value-judgments that are hidden behind a “scientistic” smokescreen. From Wordnik.com. [The Neoconservative Response Part Two] Reference
Note well, however, it was via such visions and scientistic/positivist faith that the federal funding sought was in fact secured. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Would the Public Support “Cap and Refund”?] Reference
(Note well, however, it was via such visions and scientistic/positivist faith that the federal funding sought was in fact secured.). From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Would the Public Support “Cap and Refund”?] Reference
But I find the reductive quality of the scientistic mindset a bit, well ... the world ain't a syllogism waiting to be solved for me. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-12-01] Reference
That way lies scientistic dismissals of heavier-than-air flight because this would clearly be in contravention of the law of gravity. From Wordnik.com. [Bukiet on Brooklyn Books] Reference
CC leads a mini-revue of artisto-scientistic ne'erdowells who give the rest of us lurkers a virtual pub table version of the Daily Show. From Wordnik.com. [Apparently, no one loves us anymore.] Reference
They propose, for specious, scientistic purposes, to destroy major mining and manufacturing industries. From Wordnik.com. [MND: Your Daily Dose of Counter-Theory] Reference
These ambitions were based on scientistic beliefs about human nature rather than on the reality of human nature. From Wordnik.com. [Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk] Reference
You will note that our scientistic jester is full of bovine questions that harbor no light -- or even capacity for light -- at all. From Wordnik.com. [One Cosmos] Reference
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