methodist

See also: Methodist

English

Etymology

From method +‎ -ist.

Noun

methodist (plural methodists)

1. One who follows a method.
2. (history of science) One who limits the domain of science to that which can be investigated using the scientific method.
   • 2011, Jacqueline Stevens, “Anarchist Methods and Political Theory”, in Jimmy Casas Klausen, James R. Martel, editors, How Not to be Governed: Readings and Interpretations from a Critical Anarchist Left, page 8:

     The story about Popper's actual epistemological commitments is at odds with the expectations for the father of the natural scientific method, the one revered by those who swear by their datasets as well as reviled as a banal "methodist" in the well-known essay by political theorist Sheldon Wolin:

3. Alternative form of Methodist.

Derived terms

• amethodist
• methodistic