What does subscientific mean?
Subscientific means Less than scientific; not attaining the rank of a science..
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Less than scientific; not attaining the rank of a science..
Schemes of the strict accentual type explicitly rejected by Lowth are advocated without substantial modification at present; proposals are still subscientific, i.e., without replicable results and unsupported by a scholarly consensus.
Though basically subscientific in character, Babylonian mathematics demonstrates to what extent subscientific mathematics could mimic "scientific" mathematics[…]
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Subscientific means Less than scientific; not attaining the rank of a science..
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Schemes of the strict accentual type explicitly rejected by Lowth are advocated without substantial modification at present; proposals are still subscientific, i.e., without replicable results and unsupported by a scholarly consensus.
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