Scientificness

Polls taken at the same time are just barely consistent given their margins of error, the "plus or minus 3 percentage points" that gives them the aura of scientificness. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Are you equating “scientificness” with amenability to precision measurement? ❋ Sean (2005)

My rocket scientificness also needz more practice; can’t keep launching into neighbors’ house. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I don’t think that ’scientificness’ (in the sense of ‘falsifiability’) is a measure of worth for anything other than how scientific something is; that I don’t think that evolution is as scientific as other theories isn’t a measure of the theory’s worth. ❋ Sean (2005)

In any case, I would reiterate that I put no merit in the idea of ’scientificness’ or falsifiability as some sort of a criterion of objective worth in any case. ❋ Sean (2005)

Just because the study was sufficiently thorough in its “scientificness” doesn’t mean that we can deduce from it what we please. ❋ Unknown (2004)

"scientific minds" who make use of science, because it gives a gay appearance, and because scientificness leads to the conclusion that a person is superficial -- they WISH to mislead to ❋ Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1872)

Hear, for instance, with what innocence -- almost worthy of honour -- Schopenhauer represents his own task, and draw your conclusions concerning the scientificness of a "Science" whose latest master still talks in the strain of children and old wives: "The principle," he says (page 136 of the Grundprobleme der Ethik), [Footnote: Pages 54-55 of Schopenhauer's Basis of ❋ Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1872)