Dictionary

methodist en · NOUN

Etymology

From method + -ist.

Meanings

1. One who follows a method.
2. (of science) One who limits the domain of science to that which can be investigated using the scientific method.
   • The story about Popper's actual epistemological commitments is at odds with the expectations for the father of the natural scientific method, the one revered by those who swear by their datasets as well as reviled as a banal "methodist" in the well-known essay by political theorist Sheldon Wolin: 2011, Jacqueline Stevens, “Anarchist Methods and Political Theory”, in Jimmy Casas Klausen, James R. Martel, editors, How Not to be Governed: Readings and Interpretations from a Critical Anarchist Left, page 8:
3. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of Methodist.
   alt of Methodist

Forms

Deriveds

amethodist · methodistic