Crossword-Solution: POSITIVIST
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Positivist | n. | A believer in positivism. |
| Positivist | a. | Relating to positivism. |
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| someone who emphasizes observable facts and excludes metaphysical speculation about origins or ultimate causes | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
A semipellucid, uncrystallized variety of quartz, presenting
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Sentences with POSITIVIST (5)
Hence the Positivist philosophy of Comte, though embodying noble aspirations, has had but a limited influence.
Whether our positivist spirit, our content with the collecting of facts, our dread of vast theories, is not a symptom--wholesome, prudent, modest, but still a symptom--of our consciousness that we are not as our grandfathers were; that we can no longer conceive great ideas, which illumine, for good or evil, the whole mind and heart of man, and drive him on to dare and suffer desperately.
PURCHASER: What’s your pedigree, my Philosopher, and previous performances? POSITIVIST: I am by Rousseau out of Catholicism, with a strain of the Evolution blood.
PURCHASER: And, after this life, what have you to offer me? POSITIVIST: A distinguished position in the Choir Invisible; but not, of course, conscious immortality.
When we are all perfect positivist philosophers, when a thousand generations of nurses that never heard of ghosts have educated the thousand and first generation of children, then the supernatural may fade out of fiction.
Quotes with POSITIVIST (3)
If you live today, you breath in nihilism ... it's the gas you breathe. If I hadn't had the Church to fight it with or to tell me the necessity of fighting it, I would be the stinkingest logical positivist you ever saw right now.
The time has come to realise that an interpretation of the universe — even a positivist one — remains unsatisfying unless it covers the interior as well as the exterior of things; mind as well as matter. The true physics is that which will, one day, achieve the inclusion of man in his wholeness in a coherent picture of the world.
It is as futile and dangerous to aim at making of society one large family, as sentimental socialism seeks to do, as to aim at making of it one large team, as positivist socialism seeks to do.