Meaning of prescientific | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Before the development of modern science.
   not-comparable
2. Exhibiting or relating to prescience; prescient.
   not-comparable, rare

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Examples

“It is not improbable that, in some locality where tram-roads were a novelty, their name⟳ may have⟳ been associated in folk-etymology or by pre-scientific etymologers with that of the engineer.”

“[Martin] Heidegger's concern⟳ […] was with ontology, the nature of beings, above all humans. The central question⟳ for him was "What is being? What is it for something to be?" He tackled this question⟳ not by way of the sciences, but by way of an examination of our prescientific daily life. We are, he argued, not cut⟳ off from the world by our mental processes: we are "in the world", in direct⟳ contact⟳ with our surroundings.”

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