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scientism
Belief that science is the best or only means to truth
- Instance of
- Subclass of
- fundamentalism
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Sources- 1.“Scientism and scientific fundamentalism: what science can learn from mainstream religion”tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03080188.2022.2152246#abstractRetrieved 2026-03-27
- fundamentalism
Overview
All data
58 statements · 24% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations
- Has characteristic
- reductionism statement supported by: Alexander Grothendieck
- technocracy statement supported by: Alexander Grothendieck
- progress
- verificationism statement supported by: Keith Ward
- Partially coincident with
- New Atheism
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Sources- 1.“Stephen LeDrew on his ‘The Evolution of Atheism’ | an Interview – Positivism”positivists.org/blog/archives/5325Retrieved 2026-03-31
- New Atheism
On other databases
31 identifiers linking scientism across the web's reference databases
- Bibliothèque nationale de France ID11945245d
- BNCF Thesaurus ID21248
- Cultureel Woordenboek IDfilosofie/scientisme
- Dewey Decimal Classification146.4
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online IDtopic/scientism
- Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026)2sO1Ha
- Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) old ID (2021)246588
- Encyclopedia of Ideas IDscienticism
- Freebase ID/m/016f8z
- GND ID4128283-8
- Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)4176328
- Harper's tagscientism
- IATE entry ID1267648
- J9U entity ID987007563100405171
- JSTOR topic ID (archived)scientism
- Lex IDscientisme
- Library of Congress Authorities IDsh85118695
- Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)145038440
- Namuwiki ID과학주의
- NE.se IDscientism
- Open Library subject IDscientism
- OpenAlex IDC145038440
- Oxford Reference overview ID20110803100447770
- Quora topic IDScientism
- RationalWiki IDScientism
- Reddit topic ID (obsolete)scientism
- Treccani IDscientismo
- Treccani's Dizionario di Filosofia IDscientismo
- Wellcome Collection concept IDfv4s8bkd
- Yale LUX IDconcept/ebadaa20-7d93-4395-bc7c-48ef39756747
- YSO ID11732