positivism

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When your congregation zealously overestimates the epistemological functionality of empiricism in the work of logical positivism, you trap the conversation of science and consciousness in your lethally boring Vienna wagon-Circling.

From Salon • Apr. 1, 2024

Comte believed that humanity would struggle to transition to positivism, as religions provided comforting and meaningful structure and rituals.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

But there are other, more interesting questions to ask: what is Miss World’s place now, in the era of body positivism and fourth-wave feminism?

From The Guardian • Dec. 8, 2019

So once again, says DaMarcus Beasley, the only member of the 2001 squad still on the national team, Arena has replaced panic with positivism.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 23, 2017

With just this meaning, then, a meaning larger and deeper than that usual to positivism, the attitude of the agnostic is instrumental and teleological.

From The Will to Doubt An essay in philosophy for the general thinker by Lloyd, Alfred H.