Definition, Betydelse, Synonymer & Anagram | Engelska ordet SUPERSTITION

Definition av SUPERSTITION

1. vidskepelse, skrock
2. vidskeplighet, skrockfullhet

Exempel på hur man kan använda SUPERSTITION i en mening

• Unlike modern medicine, which employs the scientific method to test plausible therapies by way of responsible and ethical clinical trials, producing repeatable evidence of either effect or of no effect, alternative therapies reside outside of mainstream medicine and do not originate from using the scientific method, but instead rely on testimonials, anecdotes, religion, tradition, superstition, belief in supernatural "energies", pseudoscience, errors in reasoning, propaganda, fraud, or other unscientific sources.
• Secular humanism is a philosophy, belief system, or life stance that embraces human reason, logic, secular ethics, and philosophical naturalism, while specifically rejecting religious dogma, supernaturalism, and superstition as the basis of morality and decision-making.
• His materialism led him to religious skepticism and a general attack on superstition and divine intervention.
• Common methods used in chain letters include emotionally manipulative stories, get-rich-quick pyramid schemes, and the exploitation of superstition to threaten the recipient.
• Over time, the descendants of the surviving loyal crew have lapsed into a pre-technological culture that is marked by superstition, and have forgotten the purpose and nature of their ship.
• Balthasar Bekker (1634 in Metslawier – 1698) a Dutch minister and author of philosophical and theological works opposing superstition.
• Traditionally, the dolls were supposed to be put away by the day after , the superstition being that leaving the dolls any longer will result in a late marriage for the daughter, Practically speaking, the encouragement to put everything away quickly is to avoid the rainy season and humidity that typically follows.
• His rule was characterized by a non-aligned foreign policy, isolationism, one-party rule, economic stagnation, and superstition.
• With the rise of Christianity this became characterised with the contrast between divine miracles versus folk religion, superstition, or occult speculation.
• February 31 or 31 February is exceptionally used on gravestones when the date is unknown, or, in at least one case, out of supposed superstition (more likely an error).
• This association gave rise to one of its common names, pilot black snake, and the superstition that this nonvenomous species led the venomous ones to the den.
• This component is often included because of the impression that some true beliefs are not forms of knowledge, such as beliefs based on superstition, lucky guesses, or erroneous reasoning.
• A jinx (also jynx), in popular superstition and folklore, is a curse or the attribute of attracting bad or negative luck.
• Distinctions between science, superstition, and pseudoscience were still being formulated, and a devoutly Christian biblical perspective permeated Western culture.
• Due to the Mets claiming the series in Game 7, the Game 6 collapse entered baseball lore as part of the Curse of the Bambino superstition used to explain the Red Sox's championship drought between 1918 and 2004.
• Jean Franco has characterized the novel as "a ferocious indictment of Spanish administration in Mexico: ignorance, superstition and corruption are seen to be its most notable characteristics".
• Tractatus de superstitionibus (disambiguation), a title shared by two medieval tractates on superstition.
• The philosophes used reason to attack superstition, bigotry, and religious fanaticism, which they considered the chief obstacles to free thought and social reform.
• According to Arnold Schoenberg, the superstition began with Gustav Mahler, who, after writing his Eighth Symphony, wrote Das Lied von der Erde, which, while structurally a symphony, was able to be disguised as a song cycle, each movement being a setting of a poem for soloist and orchestra.
• Sugden and Damsky stated that like other chess players of all ages and ranks among whom there is generally no lack of idiosyncrasy or superstition, Tartakower, a trenchant wit, took a most unsightly old hat with him from tournament to tournament.

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