positivist

How To Use positivist In A Sentence

• Also, I'm not sure how I see the example you give as being particularly 'positivist'. ATITD Tests Psychological Origins of Play
• Where positivists emphasize facts and cause-and-effect relationships, interactionists emphasize insight and understanding.
• The historical school mistaking what men have done for what men should do and, while often missing the full induction of the past, scornfully rejecting as empty apriorism deductive reasoning from the nature of man, presents a materialistic, evolutionary, and positivistic view of human society, which in no way appeals to sane reason. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
• This interpretation implies that irrationalism is blamed on the dark side of the positivistic Enlightenment, rather than arguing that German fascism arises out of lebensphilosophie as the other of reason.
• Positivist research has generated much data about specific relationships between individual or social characteristics and the likelihood of conviction.
• In discussing means and ends, as well as facts and values, Simon (1947) is forthcoming concerning his own (logical positivist) philosophical perspective.
• Porter criticizes especially the unhistoric, absolutistic and positivistic tendencies of the Enlightenment and he tends to be polemic in this context.
• The Analysis of Matter he has left behind his “early positivistic, phenomenalistic or ˜neutrally monistic™ views.” Neutral Monism
• There are theists in all of these categories (don't know about transcendental idealism or logical positivists), so they all allow for divine intervention of a kind.
• The empiricist position has been taken in recent times by the logical positivists of the Vienna Circle.