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• The historical school mistaking what men have done for what men should do and, while often missing the full induction of the past, scornfully rejecting as empty apriorism deductive reasoning from the nature of man, presents a materialistic, evolutionary, and positivistic view of human society, which in no way appeals to sane reason. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
• This interpretation implies that irrationalism is blamed on the dark side of the positivistic Enlightenment, rather than arguing that German fascism arises out of lebensphilosophie as the other of reason.
• Porter criticizes especially the unhistoric, absolutistic and positivistic tendencies of the Enlightenment and he tends to be polemic in this context.
• The Analysis of Matter he has left behind his “early positivistic, phenomenalistic or ˜neutrally monistic™ views.” Neutral Monism
• After a consideration of the various activities of Councils in relation to the sacred liturgy down the ages, Reid noted that their "authority is not positivistic: Councils do not re-make the Sacred Liturgy in their own image and likeness or indeed in that of some ‘straw modern man.’ Dr. Alcuin Reid at the Toronto Oratory
• Adopting the assumptions of an ecological contextualist approach creates multiple opportunities for valid research endeavors that diverge from traditional positivistic models.
• Does his equation of language with factual discourse express a kind of positivistic intolerance? A Special Supplement: The Development of Wittgenstein's Philosophy
• He sympathizes with the curiously antispeculative, positivistic frame of mind which characterizes the whole Russian effort in the first place: he pleads for more careful elicitation LINGUISTICS
• Some philosophers and philosophically-minded physicists may have been misled on this score by their allegiance to an excessively positivistic epistemology of science.
• Comte, as the founder of sociology, he initiated the tradition of Positivistic Sociology. His ideas of Positivistic Sociology have influenced the development of sociology.