Examples of positivist

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No positivist believes that it does not matter whether the r ule of recognition is controversial.
Widely scorned within the philosophical community in the 1940s and 1950s, the book, said some positivist philosophers, was a less-than-careful statement of their doctrines.
Moreover, few historians of early modern theatre regularly incorporate the theoretical insights and challenges to positivist historiography that are such central tenets of new historicism.
In case of a conflict between international law and national law, the positivist assumes that the latter takes precedence over the former.
Participants noted the tendency of positivist social science to underplay the role of norms.
Consequently, the positivist history of science developed in an ideological context of dialectical tension with the history of philosophy.
The narrative of an increasingly scientific psychoanalysis, in the positivist sense of the word, gave way to a new line of thought.
In the few places where they refer to uncertainty, they use it in a positivist sense (to be explained below).
One solution was to surrender fully to the mechanistic-scientific imperative - a solution that typifies neoclassical economics, "social physics," or positivist geography and rational planning.
Surprisingly, then, we are back to square one - the strong positivist position we saw at the outset.
He indicated that the positivist view was then prevalent among physicists and, instead of taking sides, he offered a humorous comparison of these two views.
He would seem to mean a kind of non-positivist objectivity - an objectivity relative to particular, historically and culturally determined structures.
The positivists' rejection of free will was fundamental to their position.
Similarly, as we saw, positivists tended to recognise the need for a category of" crime" outside of the existing legal one.
Because positivists implicitly assume their own freedom, they create a kind of moral divide.
The positivist's obsession with establishing the facts as true or false is matched here by an intolerance of moral ambiguity.
In addition, consider the argument of legal positivists and interpretivists.
If positivists concede that evaluative considerations are required for legal theory, then the same considerations seem to be involved in knowing the content of law.
Indeed, the logical positivists regarded this definition as a paradigmatic application of their empiricist criterion of meaningfulness.
The statistical evidence has all the answers to a positivist's prayers.
To the positivists these are not important - they are simply a product of the workings of the larger society.
Where positivists emphasize facts and cause-and-effect relationships, interactionists emphasize insight and understanding.
Although the original biological positivists' work was overwhelmingly concerned with the causes of crime, they were associated with a particular penal programme as well.
The biological positivists could only propose indeterminate detention or extinction for such categories of offender.
Most positivists endorse the claim that there is no necessar y connection between the concepts of law and morality.
Legal positivists do not require that a norm possess any desirable, or lack any undesirable, moral attributes in order to count as law.
Many legal positivists would accept it, but other legal philosophers do not, including natural lawyers of both the modest and the robust variety.
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