prescientific
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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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
His is a prescientific world, inclined to classify hallucinations as visions.
From Salon • Nov. 26, 2012
Our faith is founded on the old prescientific conception of a universe in which good and evil are struggling with each other, with a Supreme Being aiding and abetting the good.
From The Breath of Life by Burroughs, John
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