"'Scientism' is that extrapolation. It takes the materialistic and mechanistic dimension of our experience, and projects it outward as if it provides an especially authoritative explanation. For some this explanation has 'authority' because it is fact based, but what passes for fact is at best a provisional interpretation based on a body of knowledge that is open to reinterpretation when new 'facts' are added. For me the advocate for scientism is like the colorblind man who lives in a grayscale world and finds reports of color nonsense."