Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to the Positivists or Positivism.
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- adjective Of or pertaining to
positivism
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- adjective of or relating to positivism
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Examples
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Does his equation of language with factual discourse express a kind of positivistic intolerance?
A Special Supplement: The Development of Wittgenstein's Philosophy Pears, D.F. 1969
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Since the U.S. legal system is corruptly positivistic and managed by crude power maximizers, you can guess the modern rule.
The Volokh Conspiracy » District Court Opinions Precedential Within the Same District? 2010
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Partially it is because of this intellectual, positivistic bankruptcy at the root of the modernistic style.
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Here artists list their needs and the services they can offer in return, in a positivistic variant on one of the most haunting types of image circulating on the web in recent weeks via Occupy Wall Street: photos online at "We Are the 99%" of people holding up handwritten signs and notes to their computer's camera, testifying to the impact of their lives of student debt, recent foreclosure, unemployment.
Mira Schor: Art of the Occupy Wall Street Era Mira Schor 2011
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After a consideration of the various activities of Councils in relation to the sacred liturgy down the ages, Reid noted that their "authority is not positivistic: Councils do not re-make the Sacred Liturgy in their own image and likeness or indeed in that of some ‘straw modern man.’"
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Here artists list their needs and the services they can offer in return, in a positivistic variant on one of the most haunting types of image circulating on the web in recent weeks via Occupy Wall Street: photos online at "We Are the 99%" of people holding up handwritten signs and notes to their computer's camera, testifying to the impact of their lives of student debt, recent foreclosure, unemployment.
Mira Schor: Art of the Occupy Wall Street Era Mira Schor 2011
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Here artists list their needs and the services they can offer in return, in a positivistic variant on one of the most haunting types of image circulating on the web in recent weeks via Occupy Wall Street: photos online at "We Are the 99%" of people holding up handwritten signs and notes to their computer's camera, testifying to the impact of their lives of student debt, recent foreclosure, unemployment.
Mira Schor: Art of the Occupy Wall Street Era Mira Schor 2011
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Here artists list their needs and the services they can offer in return, in a positivistic variant on one of the most haunting types of image circulating on the web in recent weeks via Occupy Wall Street: photos online at "We Are the 99%" of people holding up handwritten signs and notes to their computer's camera, testifying to the impact of their lives of student debt, recent foreclosure, unemployment.
Mira Schor: Art of the Occupy Wall Street Era Mira Schor 2011
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Overly positivistic management gurus talk about clearing out "dead wood" or creating the space for essential "disruptive innovation".
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Since the U.S. legal system is corruptly positivistic and managed by crude power maximizers, you can guess the modern rule.
The Volokh Conspiracy » District Court Opinions Precedential Within the Same District? 2010
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