superscience

English

Etymology

From super- +‎ science.

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Noun

superscience (plural supersciences)

1. A discipline comprehending more than one science.
   • 2002, Ravi Ravindra, Science and the Sacred: Eternal Wisdom in a Changing World, page 129:

     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.

   • 2001, Marianne Sawicki, Body, Text, and Science, page 250:

     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.