How To Use Positivistic In A Sentence
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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
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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.
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Porter criticizes especially the unhistoric, absolutistic and positivistic tendencies of the Enlightenment and he tends to be polemic in this context.
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The Analysis of Matter he has left behind his “early positivistic, phenomenalistic or ˜neutrally monistic™ views.”
Neutral Monism
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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
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Adopting the assumptions of an ecological contextualist approach creates multiple opportunities for valid research endeavors that diverge from traditional positivistic models.
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Does his equation of language with factual discourse express a kind of positivistic intolerance?
A Special Supplement: The Development of Wittgenstein's Philosophy
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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
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Some philosophers and philosophically-minded physicists may have been misled on this score by their allegiance to an excessively positivistic epistemology of science.
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Comte, as the founder of sociology, he initiated the tradition of Positivistic Sociology. His ideas of Positivistic Sociology have influenced the development of sociology.
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The behavioral approach was based on a logical positivistic philosophy of science, which was strongly empirical and in which the unit of analysis was the actions of human agents, making decisions to advance their values.
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Partially it is because of this intellectual, positivistic bankruptcy at the root of the modernistic style.
The Dangers of Architectural Positivism
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Under the influence of Hume's empirical philosophy in the second half of the eighteenth century, the idea that natural science was a positivistic practice was institutionalized.
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And though the highly effective sniping of his so-called positivistic period continues, one feels a more comprehensive grasp of what he is moving towards.
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Characteristically the past is given in doxology, not in positivistic reportage.
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The numerous advocates of Comte's positivistic philosophy understood mathematics and physics as the source of rigorous laws and consequently the foundation on which other disciplines might be based.
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From this significance, it is not only necessary but very urgent to introduce Dissipate Structure Theory to instruct the positivistic research in translation teaching.
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Two Culture implies a positivistic hypothesis, emphasizes the objectivity of social reality, and assumes that both decision-makers and researchers have the qualification and ability for policy design.
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Not only does the positivistic approach fail to separate the mathematician after she has found the proof from her younger self, but it also gives her the same status as her colleagues.
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Overly positivistic management gurus talk about clearing out "dead wood" or creating the space for essential "disruptive innovation".
Angry Britain: how to lead
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The positivistic attitude, he points out, is as a general rule associated with ethical skepticism.
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The first, intentionally dry, title of my talk, is in parody of the sober, positivistic titles one got in the heyday of British structural functionalism.
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One imagines that, given the harshness of retribution and the softness of positivistic welfare, that the latter would lead to a more lenient penality.
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Since the U.S. legal system is corruptly positivistic and managed by crude power maximizers, you can guess the modern rule.
The Volokh Conspiracy » District Court Opinions Precedential Within the Same District?
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Here artists list their needs and the services they can offer in return, in a positivistic variant on one of the most haunting types of image circulating on the web in recent weeks via Occupy Wall Street: photos online at "We Are the 99%" of people holding up handwritten signs and notes to their computer's camera, testifying to the impact of their lives of student debt, recent foreclosure, unemployment.
Mira Schor: Art of the Occupy Wall Street Era
