scientificity
(saɪəntɪˈfɪsɪtɪ)
[f. scientific a. + -ity.]
The quality of being scientific; scientific character.
| 1970 B. Brewster tr. Althusser & Balibar's Reading Capital i. 49 The form of order required at a given moment in the history of knowledge by the existing type of scientificity, or, if you prefer, by the norms of theoretical validity recognized by science..as scientific. 1973 Screen Spring/Summer 209 Science..in its efforts to set itself off from opinion (the act of break which is scientificity itself)..is led to criticise most often the opinions which it meets most often. 1976 T. Eagleton Crit. & Ideology i. 32 A mistaking of scientificity for positivism..links him..with the Romantic ‘anti-scientism’ of Lukács and the Frankfurt school. |