Usage of "positivist"

catalán

positivista

español

positiva

Of or relating to positivism.

Términos relacionados

sensationalism

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positivista

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racionalista

Someone who emphasizes observable facts and excludes metaphysical speculation about origins or ultimate causes.

rationalist

positivista

Uso de positivist en inglés

The positivist belief in universal and rigid determinism, especially shown in Taine. 
 Modern French Philosophy: a Study of the Development Since Comte 

They are bringing the wonder of the world back to the positivist. 
 The Shadow World 

These positivist sentiments sound strange, particularly from the mouth of a Brâhman. 
 India: What can it teach us? / A Course of Lectures Delivered be... 

The man was a leveller, a chartist, a positivist- adespiserof dignities! 
 Thomas Wingfold, Curate V3 

But let's rather return to our original problem, the positivist philosophy. 
 Physics and Beyond: Encounters and Conversations 

The following is a quotation from Hume, the great positivist philosopher: 
 Reincarnation: A Study in Human Evolution 

It is one of the most deep-rooted of positivist illusions-thatpeople are persons. 
 The Book of the Damned 

Comte stands on the positivist side, blankly denying all objective immortality. 
 The Destiny of the Soul: A Critical History of the Doctrine of a... 

And it is no idle power she awakens in her positivist faith in man. 
 George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings and Philoso... 

Through images a positivist attitude is embodied, and a sense of relativity is introduced. 
 The Civilization of Illiteracy 

And one or other of these suppositions is apparently always lurking in the positivist mind. 
 Is Life Worth Living? 

Sense of homogeneity, or our positivist illusion of the unknown-andthe fate of all positivism. 
 The Book of the Damned 

Scientists in the past have taken the positivist attitude-isthis or that reasonable or unreasonable? 
 The Book of the Damned 

We know that he founded a so-called positivist religion, which still has a few followers. 
 The Psychology of Revolution 

Should I be, finally, a free-thinker, a positivist or skeptic, my situation is little better. 
 The Ancient Regime 

We have observed how the positivist current from Comte was carried over by Vacherot to Taine. 
 Modern French Philosophy: a Study of the Development Since Comte 