Positivist

Quick meaning: Positivist is a noun meaning A believer in positivism.

Meaning

A believer in positivism.

More Meanings

1. Related to positivism, positivistic.

Example Sentences

By discouraging what they conceive to be the weakness of their master, the English Positivists have broken the strength of their religion. A man who has faith must be prepared not only to be a martyr, but to be a fool.

The positivist tradition contains some rigorous, well-argued and stimulating methodological discussions; such material should be required reading for qualitative researchers wishing to enhance the quality of their practice.

Freedom of expression tends to be associated primarily with nineteenth-century English philosopher John Stuart Mill, whose treatise On Liberty is most frequently reached for by freedom of expression positivists, although it did not mention any “free marketplace” of ideas.

However vigorously he may assert that he is a pure positivist, who has long left behind him supernatural tendencies and weaknesses, and now accepts only what is immediately certain, he will never be free of the secret uncertainty whether positivism really has the last word.

Word Forms

• positivists

Synonyms for positivist

Depending on context, synonyms include positive, positivistic, rationalist.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include rationalist, positive, empiricist, verificationist, evidentialist, inductivist.

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