2. Adjective. relating to a stage or time prior to the development of modern science ¹
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Definition of Prescientific
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prescientific
Literary usage of Prescientific
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of European Philosophy: An Introductory Book by Walter Taylor Marvin (1917)
"The survival of prescientific thought.—Before mentioning the first of these modern
movements I must stop for a moment to point out that which has changed ..."
2. The History of European Philosophy: An Introductory Book by Walter Taylor Marvin (1917)
"The survival of prescientific thought.—Before mentioning the first of these modern
movements I must stop for a moment to point out that which has changed ..."
3. The Essence of Stigler by George Joseph Stigler, Kurt R. Leube, Thomas Gale Moore (1986)
"I begin by distinguishing the prescientific stage of a discipline from its ...
The prescientific stage is characterized in part by the incompleteness of the ..."
4. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1902)
"The prescientific man finds rest and peace in the thought that a certain belief is
... In the prescientific man there is a resistance to growth and this ..."
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