positivist

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To the positivist, the case is clear: he should not be seated.

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  1. A believer in positivism.

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  1. someone who emphasizes observable facts and excludes metaphysical speculation about origins or ultimate causes
  2. of or relating to positivism

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  • The editorial staff was positivist, Michelet and Chasles were patrons of the paper, and behind the whole stood Victor Hugo as a kind of honorary director. —  Recollections Of My Childhood And Youth
  • She decided to include two open-ended questions right at the end of the survey that would be analyzed using one of the post-positivist, qualitative methods. —  What is the (Next) Message?
  • In effect, he proposes a logical-positivist's test: since this racism is (as he demonstrates) publicly illegal, privately undetectable in opinion polls, and does not seem materially to affect the economic status of blacks once that status is adjusted for education and other variables, in what sense does it exist? —  VDARE.com - Latest Articles
  • To the positivist, the case is clear: he should not be seated. —  Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
  • By no means in the world could I agree that Larry's positivist, all-encompassing views of what is science be taught to kids, at least, not to mine. —  Planet Atheism
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