But this positivism is a dead-end: The same impulse of stripping away conceit characterized modern architecture. From Wordnik.com. [The Dangers of Architectural Positivism] Reference
In other words, false positivism is easy, but it is a lie. From Wordnik.com. [Optimism Rocks! – Grasping for the Wind] Reference
Yes, I’d say logical positivism is the closest thing to what I agree with. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Fox Thinks Winter Chill Disproves Global Warming; Experts Disagree] Reference
Otherwise it seems you end up in logical positivism, which is relf-refuting. From Wordnik.com. [So, is it over? - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
Otherwise it seems you end up in logical positivism, which is self-refuting. From Wordnik.com. [So, is it over? - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
But this stringency, which is called positivism when the conditions of welfare are understood, becomes fanaticism when they are misrepresented. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Reason] Reference
The naive faith that they are a single thing, and the only way to truth, is an ideology that used to be called positivism and is now called scientism. From Wordnik.com. [Fraud and Science] Reference
But what is encompassed by "positivism" in this setting?. From Wordnik.com. [Components of positivism] Reference
Tom, you're understanding "positivism" in a way that I am not. From Wordnik.com. [ATITD Tests Psychological Origins of Play] Reference
He addresses head on the kind of positivism that seems to be the common fare over here. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » What Is Truth?] Reference
Here, Hayek traces the history of "positivism" in the social sciences to the Paris-based Ecole Polytechnique, and the sociologists Saint-Simon and August Comte. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-04-01] Reference
I plugged "positivism" into Wikipedia's search box and, dumbfounded, read a definition that was exactly like the one written in my notebook!. From Wordnik.com. [Columbia Spectator - News, sports, and entertainment coverage for the Morningside Heights community in New York City.] Reference
He goes to bed every night urging his followers to "dream big" and greets each new day with the kind of positivism usually associated with Disney characters: "Morning peeps. From Wordnik.com. [Gareth Thomas: the interview] Reference
The warm glow of Obama positivism is even being felt up in Canada. From Wordnik.com. [Don Tapscott: The Obama Effect -- Political Attack Ads Backfiring for Canada's Prime Minister] Reference
The message of Freedom and its positivism is what will build momentum. From Wordnik.com. [Open Letter to Ron Paul Supporters] Reference
The early history of Viennese positivism is well told in Victor Kraft's. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Ha, Piglet, love the positivism and glad to know, especially the legis. bit. From Wordnik.com. [flesh you so fancifully fry] Reference
Others adhered to modern philosophic systems such as pragmatism and positivism. From Wordnik.com. [A History of China] Reference
By now, logical positivism has retreated into the obscurity it so richly deserves. From Wordnik.com. [Warranted Christian Belief] Reference
This positivism of values has been challenged in recent years, most notably by the. From Wordnik.com. [HISTORICISM] Reference
Far back in 1879, it would have been a beautiful positivism, if Russell had said. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Damned] Reference
We lived in a period of positivism and not relativism, and we went to the preacher. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with John Raymond Shute, June 25, 1982. Interview B-0054-1. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
You are a relentless force of positivism and grace on these boards, and a capital contributor. From Wordnik.com. [McCain: Sorry, Five Joint Appearances With Obama Just Won't Do It] Reference
Even if it's for a moment to get some air and refill your sense of positivism and self, do it. From Wordnik.com. [Karen Luniw: Secrets To Getting Through The Holiday Season] Reference
Sense of homogeneity, or our positivist illusion of the unknown -- and the fate of all positivism. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Damned] Reference
Weber thus in - tensified the positivism about values which is inherent in the historicist position. From Wordnik.com. [HISTORICISM] Reference
There she was: loving, beloved, full of the positivism of youth, immensely vulnerable, immensely resilient. From Wordnik.com. [Death of a Fool]
But, if positivism attract you, go ahead and try: you will be in harmony with cosmic endeavor -- but Continuity will resist you. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Damned] Reference
Bridgman independently conceived his ideas, the simi - larities with the contemporaneous Viennese positivism were quite striking. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
I feel the positivism of a Leverrier, or instinctively take to the notion that all three of these observations relate to the same object. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Damned] Reference
With Marc Riley departed, The Fall back with Rough Trade, 'Perverted by Language' arrives at a time of change and renewed positivism (?). From Wordnik.com. [FallNews - still all mud and witches] Reference
Intermediateness in its mineralogic aspect of positivism -- or Iron that strove to break away from Sulphur and Oxygen, and be real, homogeneous. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Damned] Reference
But let this be well understood: an appeal to common sense is not an appeal to thought that grovels, to narrow positivism which denies everything it cannot see or touch. From Wordnik.com. [The Simple Life] Reference
Or the spirit or hope or ambition of the cosmos, which we call attempted positivism: not to find out the new; not to add to what is called knowledge, but to systematize. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Damned] Reference
Over and over and over again, the universal delusion; hope and despair of attempted positivism; that there can be real criteria, or distinct characteristics of anything. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Damned] Reference
His "theory of descriptions" -- a famously abstruse discussion of language and meaning -- underlay two major philosophical movements, logical positivism and linguistic analysis. From Wordnik.com. [Biographies Abounding] Reference
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