positivist

IPA: pˈɑzʌtɪvɪst

Examples of "positivist" in Sentences

Many of us agree that "positivist" social science isn't a good idea.
Also, I'm not sure how I see the example you give as being particularly 'positivist'.
We know that he founded a so-called positivist religion, which still has a few followers.
a more typically Latin American positivist, believing that authoritarianism could be justified if it were a vehicle to bring about progress.
Classifying things as being 'positivist' or whatever else is reductive, each point and proposed policy needs to be judged on its own merits.
To twentieth philosophy, Mach is best known as a positivist who influenced Logical Positivism, a philosopher of physics who influenced Einstein, and an empiricist who denied the reality of atoms.
It's not of chief importance here, but Fodor is no positivist, if by 'positivist' you are referring to the 'logical positivists' of the early 20th century, a la Popper, Carnap, etc., and their 'verificationist' program in philosophy.
Is he not saying something a little along these lines himself, when he writes that once a science enters the "positivist" stage "there is no longer any question of classifying information about the world in a manner consonant with the nature of things"?
In an online description of his work of 13 years in Brazil, Mr. Heckenberger says that it "requires a commitment to holistic and deeply contextual research and interpretation" and "is not framed in opposition to 'positivist' viewpoints, whether evolutionist or functionalist."