prescientific

prescientific englanniksi

1. Prior to the development of modern science.

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3. (quote-journal) (Review)|location=London|date=12 April 2014|page=R10|passage=Heidegger|&91;Martin&93; Heidegger's concern (..) was with ontology, the nature of beings, above all humans. The central question for him was "What is being? What is it for something to be?" He tackled this question not by way of the sciences, but by way of an examination of our prescientific daily life. We are, he argued, not cut off from the world by our mental processes: we are "in the world", in direct contact with our surroundings.

4. Exhibiting or relating to prescience; prescient.