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a more typically Latin American positivist, believing that authoritarianism could be justified if it were a vehicle to bring about progress.

POSITIVISM IN LATIN AMERICA RONALD HILTON 1968

To twentieth philosophy, Mach is best known as a positivist who influenced Logical Positivism, a philosopher of physics who influenced Einstein, and an empiricist who denied the reality of atoms.

Ernst Mach Pojman, Paul 2009

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

The Psychology of Revolution 1913

In an online description of his work of 13 years in Brazil, Mr. Heckenberger says that it "requires a commitment to holistic and deeply contextual research and interpretation" and "is not framed in opposition to 'positivist' viewpoints, whether evolutionist or functionalist."

The Endless Allure of El Dorado 2009

Many of us agree that "positivist" social science isn't a good idea.

Archive 2008-06-01 Daniel Little 2008

Many of us agree that "positivist" social science isn't a good idea.

Components of positivism Daniel Little 2008

Classifying things as being 'positivist' or whatever else is reductive, each point and proposed policy needs to be judged on its own merits.

Can Scientific Ideas Come Prematurely? - The Austrian Economists 2007

It's not of chief importance here, but Fodor is no positivist, if by 'positivist' you are referring to the 'logical positivists' of the early 20th century, a la Popper, Carnap, etc., and their 'verificationist' program in philosophy.

ATITD Tests Psychological Origins of Play 2006

Also, I'm not sure how I see the example you give as being particularly 'positivist'.

ATITD Tests Psychological Origins of Play 2006

Is he not saying something a little along these lines himself, when he writes that once a science enters the "positivist" stage "there is no longer any question of classifying information about the world in a manner consonant with the nature of things"?

'The Scientific Takeover' Gillispie, Charles G. 2005