A concept put forward by French mathematician and physicist Poincaré in his book The Value of Science in 1905. It referred to a typical mistaken view of some natural scientists, due to the deep-rooted metaphysical thinking pattern, towards the overall development of physics and even the whole natural science. This erred view came into being since some natural scientists did not understand materialist dialectics, and thus could not correctly understand and explain the dialectical development process for a relative truth to become an absolute truth. This view was quite typical at the end of the 19th Century and the beginning of the 20th Century, consequently Lenin regarded it as a key point of the critique in the Chapter 5 of Materialism and Empirio-Criticism…
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