Positivists

It would have been difficult to ascertain which of these three ideals she subscribed to most ardently, for sometimes the Positivists were a confused'lot.

Poland Michener, James 1983

He is of almost pure Indian blood, and is a Positivist—the Positivists are a really strong body in Brazil, as they are in France and indeed in Chile.

II. Up the Paraguay 1914

He is of almost pure Indian blood, and is a Positivist -- the Positivists are a really strong body in

Through the Brazilian Wilderness Theodore Roosevelt 1888

Among the common people religion was almost extinct, and assuredly no new morality or sentiment, such as Positivists now promise, had taken its place.

The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 Ontario. Ministry of Education

"Positivists", and attended their imitation church in London, but I did not get any satisfaction from them.

The Profits of Religion, Fifth Edition Upton Sinclair 1923

I have read the books of the "Positivists", and attended their imitation church in London, but I did not get any satisfaction from them.

The Profits of Religion: An Essay in Economic Interpretation 1918

Positivists and nihilists both refuse to believe in jack squat -- unless they can drop it from the roof of a building and take its measurements.

The Structural Nuts and Bolts of The Great Leveling, Revisited 2009

The subject of the thesis was “basic sentences”, or “protocol sentences”, i.e. the kind of sentences that, the Logical Positivists had theorised, comprise the foundations of scientific knowledge.

Paul Feyerabend Preston, John 2009

Positivists and behaviorists had embraced operationalism for precisely the opposite reason: they thought operations were public, objective and verifiable, unlike private experience.

Operationalism Chang, Hasok 2009

Positivists and nihilists both refuse to believe in jack squat -- unless they can drop it from the roof of a building and take its measurements.

The Structural Nuts and Bolts of The Great Leveling, Revisited 2009