positivistic
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- anti-positivistic adjective
- neopositivistic adjective
- nonpositivistic adjective
- positivistically adverb
- post-positivistic adjective
Example Sentences
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He believes that, influenced by a "popularized, anonymous positivistic philosophy," too many Americans are afraid to hold strong opinions.
From Time Magazine Archive
Their loadedness with variations, changes, uncontrollables, and our negative feelings about the implications of viewing human beings as predictable left the strict scientism of positivistic method wanting at this stage of man's knowing.
From Humanistic Nursing by Paterson, Josephine G.
From the modern spiritualistic, the materialistic, the positivistic, or any modern standpoint at all, it is difficult to perceive how mental alteration can be supposed without the assumption of an exactly corresponding physiological change.
From A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by Williams, C. M.
For sources on modern anti-semitism in the Critique of positivistic religion by the deists and rationalists in France, cf.
From The Grey Book by Snoek, Johan Martinus
Large difficulties loom upon the horizon of this positivistic insistence upon history.
From An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant by Moore, Edward Caldwell
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