prescientific

British  

/ ˌpriːsaɪənˈtɪfɪk /

adjective

1. of or relating to the period before the development of modern science and its methods

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Example Sentences

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

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

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

In dismissing philosophy as an antiquated relic of our prescientific past, the scientist is making a very large and dubious assumption: that the abstract methods of philosophy, despite the discipline’s string of successes over recent centuries, have nothing more to contribute to our developing understanding of the world.

From New York Times

At a more pragmatic level, mythic explanations of natural phenomena were prescientific attempts to make sense of things that were beyond human control, answering questions that seemed unanswerable.

From Salon