positivism

How To Use positivism In A Sentence

• a small set of men, some of whom are possessed of great ability and have accomplished much, but as a religion in any adequate sense of the word positivism will be admitted a failure by its most sincere adherents. Feuerbach: The roots of the socialist philosophy
• The problem of positivism in pedagogy study lies in its technicalization and the anti- positivism of academy, and methodological inadequacy of its denial of value relationship.
• As they have been realised, the dreams themselves have assumed a peculiar character of sobriety, of the spirit of positivism, and beyond that, of boredom.
• Rehabilitation is another manifestation of positivism which was under general attack at this time.
• This disappearance of objective knowledge in Western philosophy has continued in other idealist and subjective guises-positivism, materialism, psychologism and historicism.
• Carry over the assumptions of philosophical positivism and the basic notions of revelation will become nonsense.
• Empiricism and positivism have been put to flight in anthropology, philosophy, aesthetics, economics.
• Legal positivism does not deny that moral and political criticism of legal systems are important, but insists that a descriptive or conceptual approach to law is valuable, both on its own terms and as a necessary prelude to criticism.
• But this stringency, which is called positivism when the conditions of welfare are understood, becomes fanaticism when they are misrepresented. The Life of Reason
• Between these two theories of law, legal positivism is the more persuasive legal theory for many people.