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
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.
From Character and Opinion in the United States by George Santayana
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 C. M. Williams
Mansel's endeavour, out of agnosticism to conjure the most absurdly positivistic faith, had left thinking men more exposed to scepticism, if possible, than they had been before.
From An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant by Edward Caldwell Moore
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 Josephine G. Paterson
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