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  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Partially it is because of this intellectual, positivistic bankruptcy at the root of the modernistic style.

    The Dangers of Architectural Positivism 2009

  • 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

  • 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.’"

    Dr. Alcuin Reid at the Toronto Oratory 2009

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Overly positivistic management gurus talk about clearing out "dead wood" or creating the space for essential "disruptive innovation".

    Angry Britain: how to lead 2011

  • 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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