positivistic
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- anti-positivistic adjective
- neopositivistic adjective
- nonpositivistic adjective
- positivistically adverb
- post-positivistic adjective
Example Sentences
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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
Consequently these positivistic approaches to studying human events, unless one forced one's data crowbar style, always terminated with a kind of miscellaneous category.
From Humanistic Nursing by Paterson, Josephine G.
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.
From A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by Williams, C. M.
Current nursing practice reflects the educational preparation of nurses that is weighted heavily with scientific courses and the methodology of positivistic science.
From Humanistic Nursing by Paterson, Josephine G.
This methodology came into being only after years in which various attempts were made to get positivistic methodology to answer relevant nursing questions and to develop a professional scientific theory of nursing.
From Humanistic Nursing by Paterson, Josephine G.
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