Does his equation of language with factual discourse express a kind of positivistic intolerance?. From Wordnik.com. [A Special Supplement: The Development of Wittgenstein's Philosophy] Reference
These positivistic research methods have made available answers. From Wordnik.com. [Humanistic Nursing] Reference
He was a very -- he was very positive -- positivistic in his thinking. From Wordnik.com. [Benjamin Rush: Patriot and Physician] Reference
Such a positivistic view of science combines determinism with optimism. From Wordnik.com. [Environmental Ethics] Reference
There are still, regrettable, positivistic elements in the "applied" sciences. From Wordnik.com. [Hello to Lionel R Milgrom] Reference
A positivistic philosophy of war was developed dur - ing the nineteenth century. From Wordnik.com. [WAR AND MILITARISM] Reference
Oriental thought was accommodated to both the religious and the positivistic mood. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Darwinism, environmental sociology, and a positivistic empirical approach to all reality. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Rudner attempts to provide a positivistic interpretation of Weber's concept of ideal types. From Wordnik.com. [Neo-positivist philosophy of social science] Reference
But this positivistic paradigm of the dynamics of theory-selection does not fit the real debate. From Wordnik.com. [Disbelief] Reference
In an eerie way, much positivistic sociological research subscribes to this anti-social nostrum. From Wordnik.com. ['Sex, Lies, and Social Science': An Exchange] Reference
One of these is that “every positivistic observation language is based upon a metaphysical ontology”. From Wordnik.com. [Paul Feyerabend] Reference
The positivistic impression this word has on ones appreciation of British music should not go unnoticed. From Wordnik.com. [A bit of a scoop] Reference
And in the nineteenth century Taine, who represented very much the antimetaphysical, positivistic school in. From Wordnik.com. [BEHAVIORISM] Reference
Partially it is because of this intellectual, positivistic bankruptcy at the root of the modernistic style. From Wordnik.com. [The Dangers of Architectural Positivism] Reference
In general, the effect of such trends in science was to strengthen the positivistic or empirical world-view. From Wordnik.com. [IMPRESSIONISM IN ART] Reference
It revolves around a loss of the positivistic certainty that science once enjoyed and now finds slipping away. From Wordnik.com. [A Brief History of Disbelief] Reference
According to Popper, the Copenhagen Interpretation was simply the result of some bad positivistic philosophising. From Wordnik.com. [Paul Feyerabend] Reference
The Analysis of Matter he has left behind his “early positivistic, phenomenalistic or ˜neutrally monistic™ views.”. From Wordnik.com. [Neutral Monism] Reference
Furthermore, the gen - eral revolt against positivistic methods in literary scholarship enhanced interest in period terms. From Wordnik.com. [BAROQUE IN LITERATURE] Reference
Since the U.S. legal system is corruptly positivistic and managed by crude power maximizers, you can guess the modern rule. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » District Court Opinions Precedential Within the Same District?] Reference
Proposing a pragmatic and positivistic interpretation of the new science, they set forth a way of living with complete skepticism on. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
"Proportionate belief" assumes a positivistic view of knowledge--that is, important questions can be answered by scientific analysis. From Wordnik.com. [Proportionate Belief, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
The critique of Roe above embraces positivistic law, i.e., judges should not find right not set forth in statutory Constitutional text. From Wordnik.com. [Terri Schiavo news] Reference
Such a revisionist notion of objectivity is in any case far removed, I think, from Sha's somewhat punitive, positivistic understanding of. From Wordnik.com. ['That Obscure Object of Historical Desire'] Reference
Superficially considered, this concept of theory shows some similarity to neo-positivistic ideas and would be subject to similar criticism. From Wordnik.com. [Structuralism in Physics] Reference
Historical interest can thus be focussed solely on the past and on the modest inquiry: “How things actually were” (positivistic historiography). From Wordnik.com. [ESCHATOLOGY] Reference
The ideal of a perennial and complete philosophy still haunts the minds of philosophers, probably of a majority even in a positivistic and analytic age. From Wordnik.com. [PERENNIAL PHILOSOPHY] Reference
Current nursing practice reflects the educational preparation of nurses that is weighted heavily with scientific courses and the methodology of positivistic science. From Wordnik.com. [Humanistic Nursing] Reference
For a nurse to become a free responsible research nurse in the health arena she accepts her lived nursing world as beyond the controls valued in positivistic science. From Wordnik.com. [Humanistic Nursing] Reference
Consequently these positivistic approaches to studying human events, unless one forced one's data crowbar style, always terminated with a kind of miscellaneous category. From Wordnik.com. [Humanistic Nursing] Reference
But, "it also entailed a scientific-based positivistic understanding of the world, thus promoting a non-religious Western type of society as the precondition for progress.". From Wordnik.com. [Nathan Gardels: Obama in Istanbul: Test for the West] Reference
Many nurses acutely aware of the complexities, contradictions, and inconsistencies of their nursing worlds have struggled and used the positivistic method in research studies. From Wordnik.com. [Humanistic Nursing] Reference
Finally the structuralism of the French Annales circle needs to be mentioned as a serious attempt to combine important elements of the positivistic and historicist traditions. From Wordnik.com. [HISTORICISM] Reference
Newton has led to the positivistic and agnostic phase of naturalism. From Wordnik.com. [The Approach to Philosophy] Reference
The result is what one may call the growth of naturalistic or positivistic feeling. From Wordnik.com. [Pragmatism] Reference
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