Meanings
plural supersciences
- A discipline comprehending more than one science.
What we need is a superscience, a science of the higher nature or of the spirit, a science dealing with the whole arena of purposes and significance and the transformation of being and the laws pertaining to them.
2002, Ravi Ravindra, Science and the Sacred: Eternal Wisdom in a Changing World, page 1291 more example
By conventional standards, both psychoanalytic and materialist feminist philosophy of science fall short of their ambitions to be supersciences: the science of science. Neither presents an adequate empirical basis.
2001, Marianne Sawicki, Body, Text, and Science, page 250
Origin
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