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
The tacit assumptions of these early plays are stringently positivistic: body and soul are the obverse and reverse of a single substance; earth is the boundary of man's hopes.
From The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume I by Gerhart Hauptmann
Thus we find it sometimes coördinated with logic and ethics, and sometimes, especially in the classical positivistic systems, coördinated with the sciences of the organic functions.
From International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics by Various
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 Josephine G. Paterson
Large difficulties loom upon the horizon of this positivistic insistence upon history.
From An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant by Edward Caldwell Moore
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