prescientific
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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So did the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Scott Olesen and Eric Alm in 2016, calling the idea of balance in the microbiome “a holdover from prescientific thought,” akin to balancing the humors.
From Salon ● Oct. 27, 2019
But Kandel’s Freudian affinity was formed in his prescientific Viennese youth, and his brilliant work on the molecular basis of memory owed nothing to psychoanalysis.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 16, 2019
It is an interesting historical system, left over from prescientific days and best remembered for the impetus it gave people to learn the cycles and patterns of the sky.
From Textbooks ● Oct. 13, 2016
If we were a prescientific society, we would assume that polio is a disease caused by human disagreements and cured by public-spiritedness.
From Slate ● Mar. 10, 2015
Now, the abstract possibility of God communicating to man a knowledge of exact scientific facts in a prescientific age need not be denied.
From The Christian View of the Old Testament by Frederick Carl Eiselen
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