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Meanings of positivist in English
Catalan
positivista Spanish
positiva Of or relating to positivism.
Related terms
Portuguese
positivista Catalan
racionalista Someone who emphasizes observable facts and excludes metaphysical speculation about origins or ultimate causes.
Synonyms
Examples for "rationalist"
Examples for "rationalist"
1
He was a superb rationalist; but after that he did not exist.
2
Bolt's support for Aird's economic rationalist views on Aboriginal affairs is well-documented.
3
We have in Taine not a critical rationalist but a dogmatic rationalist.
4
The first answer is simply to say that I am a rationalist.
5
I had left the temple a devotee, and was returned a rationalist.
Usage of positivist in English
1
The positivist belief in universal and rigid determinism, especially shown in Taine.
2
They are bringing the wonder of the world back to the positivist.
3
These positivist sentiments sound strange, particularly from the mouth of a Brâhman.
4
The man was a leveller, a chartist, a positivist- adespiserof dignities!
5
But let's rather return to our original problem, the positivist philosophy.
6
The following is a quotation from Hume, the great positivist philosopher:
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It is one of the most deep-rooted of positivist illusions-thatpeople are persons.
8
Comte stands on the positivist side, blankly denying all objective immortality.
9
And it is no idle power she awakens in her positivist faith in man.
10
Through images a positivist attitude is embodied, and a sense of relativity is introduced.
11
And one or other of these suppositions is apparently always lurking in the positivist mind.
12
Sense of homogeneity, or our positivist illusion of the unknown-andthe fate of all positivism.
13
Scientists in the past have taken the positivist attitude-isthis or that reasonable or unreasonable?
14
We know that he founded a so-called positivist religion, which still has a few followers.
15
Should I be, finally, a free-thinker, a positivist or skeptic, my situation is little better.
16
We have observed how the positivist current from Comte was carried over by Vacherot to Taine.
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Translations for positivist
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Positivist through the time
Positivist across language varieties
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