单词 | metascientific |
释义 | metascientificadj. Chiefly Philosophy. Dealing with questions which lie outside the scope of scientific inquiry; of or relating to metascience. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > empiricism > [adjective] > other theories or elements descendental1847 scientistic1879 nomic1892 hypothetico-deductive1912 essentialist1938 inductivist1945 testable1945 observationalist1951 metascientific1965 1938 Philos. Rev. 47 75 (note) It is sometimes desirable to construct all meta-scientific definitions in the meta-language so that every proposition has its correlate in the meta-system. 1955 Philos. & Phenomenol. Res. 15 477 Philosophies of science are, in this way, meta-scientific activities. 1965 P. Caws Philos. of Sci. iv. 28 The clarification and refinement of concepts..is a metascientific activity. 1971 J. Wiatr in R. Klibansky Contemp. Philos. IV. 308 Historical materialism, defined as philosophical meta-scientific reflection of the greatest importance for all the social sciences. 1983 Listener 13 Oct. 33/1 An obsession with scientific or rather metascientific inquiry. 1994 Statistician 43 458 [The book] will be of interest to those..involved in metascientific investigations and the more ideas surrounding probability theory. Derivatives ˌmetascienˈtifically adv. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > empiricism > [adverb] necessarily1664 positivistically1890 phenomenologically1891 phenomenalistically1909 nomically1921 operationally1925 reductionistically1950 hypothetico-deductively1953 metascientifically1954 1954 J. G. Kemeny in P. A. Schilpp Philos. R. Carnap (1963) 712 Degree of confirmation..is used meta-scientifically, it is applied to theories. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1938 |
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