scienceless en · ADJ
Etymology
From science + -less.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Without science.
Metaphysics stagnates in scienceless (or uncritical) cultures; it is progressive in scientific ones. It progresses then because existing metaphysical doctrines are felt to be constricting frameworks, and thus unsatisfactory.
2012, Joseph Agassi, Science in Flux:Near-synonyms: unscientific, nonscientific; unscienced