positivistic
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- anti-positivistic adjective
- neopositivistic adjective
- nonpositivistic adjective
- positivistically adverb
- post-positivistic adjective
Example Sentences
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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.
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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.
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Lucretius was too literal, positivistic, and insistent for such a delicate task.
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Even the most emancipated and positivistic of the latest thinkers—pragmatists, new realists, pure empiricists—have been bred in the atmosphere of German idealism; and this fact should not be forgotten in approaching their views.
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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.
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