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superscientific en · ADJ

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Etymology

From super- + scientific.

Meanings

1. Above or beyond science.
   • It should be emphasized that highly improbable events occur in nature without the involvement of any kind of supernatural or superscientific phenomena. 2012, J. Woods Halley, How Likely is Extraterrestrial Life?, page 52:
   • Humble positivism allowed educators, politicians, or religious authorities to believe, and behave as if, they possess superscientific knowledge that reaches further into the fabric of reality than empirical science. 2005, George A. Reisch, How the Cold War Transformed Philosophy of Science, page 298:

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