Positivist

It may seem strange that among the first-fruits of the efforts of a Positivist should be the conversion of those he seeks to benefit to Christianity.

II. Up the Paraguay 1914

It may seem strange that among the first-fruits of the efforts of a Positivist should be the conversion of those he seeks to benefit to Christianity.

Through the Brazilian Wilderness Theodore Roosevelt 1888

They are symbols of a recognised mode of thought, and one of sufficient importance to induce almost all who now discuss the great problems of philosophy, or survey from any elevated point of view the opinions of the age, to take what is termed the Positivist view of things into serious consideration, and define their own position, more or less friendly or hostile, in regard to it.

Auguste Comte and Positivism John Stuart Mill 1839

Though my favorite gangster nickname of all time is "Albert the Logical Positivist".

Much easier to win cases when witnesses against your clients turn up dead 2009

Positivist theories of meaning, he complained, have consequences which are “at variance with scientific method and reasonable philosophy” (Philosophical Papers, Volume 1, p. 17).

Paul Feyerabend Preston, John 2009

In the summer of that year, he again visited Alpbach, where he met the philosopher of science Philipp Frank (another former Logical Positivist), who exerted on him a (somewhat delayed) influence:

Paul Feyerabend Preston, John 2009

Mach, too, was a Positivist, but Mach probably has more in common with Husserl than Comte, and certainly more in common with James.

Ernst Mach Pojman, Paul 2009

On this received Positivist view, theories (e.g., microtheories) explain empirical matters of fact only indirectly, by implying generalizations framed in an observation-language that explain them directly.

Wilfrid Sellars Rosenberg, Jay 2009

There Feyerabend re-encountered the leading light of the Logical Positivist movement,

Paul Feyerabend Preston, John 2009

If so, and if there were consequently no privileged set of sentences reporting experience in an unbiased way, then the rug would seem to have been pulled from under some of the main presumptions and motivations for the Positivist program: what would be the significance of “analyzing” the meaning of a claim into merely what a particular theorist had

The Analytic/Synthetic Distinction Rey, Georges 2008