What is "prescientific"

Usage examples of "prescientific".

It is certainly true that scientific research has revealed truths about the natural world that are incompatible with the descriptions of nature found in many prescientific religious doctrines.

Some have even suggested that explanations of human conduct by reference to beliefs and desires is comparable to the prescientific explanation of heat by reference to the caloric theory.

The reason for this is that all major religions originated in prescientific eras, and when they have come into contact with modern science, they have learned, sometimes by bitter experience, to withdraw their purportedly scientific theories from their doctrinal schemes.

Moreover, all the basic principles of scientific materialism, like those of other religions, originated in prescientific eras.

Some might argue, for instance, that science should always seek new, unprecedented modes of research and not revert to prescientific theories and methods of inquiry.

For this reason, the central importance of contemplation for society as a whole is emphasized not only in the religions of Asia, but in prescientific Christianity.

I should not be surprised to learn that the prescientific idea of stones falling from the sky is not, in these hinterlands, completely dead.

So that, actually, the occasion for an experience of awe before the wonder of the universe that is being developed for us by our scientists surely is a far more marvelous, mind-blowing revelation than anything the prescientific world could ever have imagined.

It is especially difficult for modern people to conceive that our modern, scientific age might not be an improvement over the prescientific period.

Cornelius Agrippa, a general text on magic written in prescientific times.

But why keep alive and circulate as truth these animal legends of the prescientific ages?

With one apparent exception, there are no stories sufficiently detailed to dispose of other explanations and sufficiently accurate to portray correctly modern physics or astronomy to a prescientific or pretechnical people.

Yet there it sits, immersed in a body of more or less standard prescientific legend.

These concepts are prescientific, just as the sun is prescientific, and the sun is not disproved.

Zonatitucan to be decorated with images of the sun, sheaves of grain, totems of rain and river gods, the archetypal givers-of-life common to most prescientific civilizations.