Sentence examples for positivism from inspiring English sources

America would be in better shape if banks had listened to the killjoys who warned that house prices would not rise for ever.The prattling pedlars of positivism deserve to be mocked.

He seeks, in other words, a tighter-fitting positivism.

And Mr Wieseltier is largely correct that for moral questions data is of little to no value, that Mr Silver's positivism is itself a "prior" and that Mr Silver's "distinction between analysis and advocacy is a little innocent".

In the later sections, Melissa Lane on early responses to scientific positivism, Peter Dews on post-modernism and Bhikhu Parekh on non-western political thought, stand out.

Legal positivism grounds law in social practice.

And logical positivism followed Hume's lead.

Thus, Maritain clearly rejects legal positivism.

(See the entry on legal positivism).

In "The Gain from a Belief" Cooper takes on English and French progressivism and positivism of the 19th century (Mill, Comte, and others) using these figures' organic metaphors and visions of cultural development to explore the debates about racial uplift, the so-called Negro problem, liberalism, cosmopolitanism, and universal brotherhood.

Hook did not pursue the criticisms of metaphysics that were inherent in the pragmatic approach as these became manifest and central for logical positivism, with its stress upon the elimination of metaphysics.

This cumulative view of scientific progress was an important ingredient in the optimism of the eighteenth century Enlightenment, and it was incorporated in the 1830s in Auguste Comte's program of positivism: by accumulating empirically certified truths science also promotes progress in society.