positivistic
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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
For a nurse to become a free responsible research nurse in the health arena she accepts her lived nursing world as beyond the controls valued in positivistic science.
From Humanistic Nursing by Paterson, Josephine G.
The former in his interpretation of history substituted social physics for economic law and politics, and in spite of many idealistic and positivistic uncertainties, he almost discovered the genesis of the third estate.
From Essays on the Materialistic Conception of History by Labriola, Antonio
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
The division of Physical Sciences naturally suggested that kind of subdivision which the positivistic classification presents as a complete system of sciences.
From International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics by Various
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