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 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
Lucretius was too literal, positivistic, and insistent for such a delicate task.
From Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe by Santayana, George
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
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.
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