What's the difference between lawmaker and positivism?

Lawmaker


Definition:

  • (n.) A legislator; a lawgiver.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Former lawmaker and historian Faraj Najm said the ruling resets Libya “back to square one” and that the choice now faced by the Tobruk-based parliament is “between bad and worse”.
  • (2) Lawmakers across the globe are beginning to recognize the need to deter this destructive conduct.
  • (3) A coalition of plaintiffs suing Texas – which includes minority rights groups, voters and Democratic lawmakers – say their experts have estimated 787,000 registered voters lacking one of seven acceptable forms of ID.
  • (4) Olympic games are a competition between countries, but here spectators can freely choose which star to cheer for and unite as one,” said Inoki, a lawmaker in Japan’s upper house who was known as “Burning Fighting Spirit” in the ring.
  • (5) Over the next few weeks and months he'll be meeting lawmakers and criminal justice officials in seven states from California to New York.
  • (6) At the front of the march was Lee Cheuk-yan, a former lawmaker of 20 years, carrying a banner calling for Liu’s spirit to inspire people.
  • (7) A health committee meeting in Sacramento, the state capital, on Wednesday turned into a tense showdown between lawmakers seeking to argue that the science is unequivocally on the side of universal vaccination, and activists accusing them of being in the pocket of unscrupulous big pharmaceutical companies.
  • (8) A Yazidi lawmaker, a Kurdish security official and an Iraqi official from the nearby city of Sinjar gave similar accounts, saying Isis fighters had massacred scores of Yazidi men on Friday afternoon after seizing Kocho.
  • (9) In the midst of those debates, Texas physicians will mount an all-out effort to push health-related issues to the top of the lawmakers' agenda.
  • (10) While lawmakers debate how much THC (the psychoactive component in marijuana) a person can have in their blood before they're a danger on the road, Colorado's policemen have to rely on field sobriety tests.
  • (11) Yau, an “umbrella soldier” , ran in local district council elections for the first time in November 2015, unsuccessfully challenging the pro-Beijing lawmaker Priscilla Leung Mei-fun to whom she lost by just over 300 votes.
  • (12) My family and our financial hit is not more important than giving citizens access to basic health care ... but I could just punch the lawmakers who decided to marry my salary with a law that has already done its rounds in congress and public debate.
  • (13) With an out-of-session Congress deadlocked over immigration reform and right-wing lawmakers hell-bent on “sealing the border”, the White House faces intense pressure to do something – anything – about immigration, after years of burying a civil rights crisis in a mire of political tone-deafness and jingoistic bombast.
  • (14) David, Marcelo and Simon are thrilled by the initial outpouring of support we’ve received from our fans and we’re excited about sharing our plans with the city, county and community soon.” The accord comes after almost 18 months of haggling with city lawmakers over the potential location, which had tested the patience of MLS officials and threatened to derail the hopes of an MLS franchise ever coming to the city.
  • (15) Approved: Nebraska voters passed an unusual ballot measure to reinstate the death penalty after state lawmakers repealed it in 2015.
  • (16) In both cases, her coaching seems to have paid off, at least for a time: those GOP lawmakers walked into decidedly fewer self-sabotaging boobytraps in the election cycle following the 2013 retreat at which she spoke, and Pence’s strong performance at the RNC last month was a bright spot in an otherwise blighted convention.
  • (17) But the Bears Ears designation has proven controversial in Utah, where some lawmakers have criticized the move as a federal land grab.
  • (18) Dunford told lawmakers that by July and August “manageable risk” will accrue to US military planning for either a total withdrawal or a significant drawdown.
  • (19) More here: European Central Bank must heed eurozone warning signs And I'm handing over to my colleague Nick Fletcher .... thanks all GW 1.59pm BST Photos: Italian vote of confidence debate A couple of photos from today's confidence debate in the Italian senate, which the new government won confortably ( see 1.26pm ) Former Premier Silvio Berlusconi shakes hands with an unidentified lawmaker as he attends a session for a second vote of confidence to confirm the new government, in the Italian Senate in Rome, Tuesday, April 30, 2013.
  • (20) Conway has a long list of success stories when it comes to this kind of retooling, from helping GOP lawmakers change the way they talk about rape to helping Trump’s running mate Mike Pence polish his personality in ways that “kept him comfortable in his own skin” ahead of a gubernatorial reelection campaign, as Pence’s communications director recently told TPM .

Positivism


Definition:

  • (n.) A system of philosophy originated by M. Auguste Comte, which deals only with positives. It excludes from philosophy everything but the natural phenomena or properties of knowable things, together with their invariable relations of coexistence and succession, as occurring in time and space. Such relations are denominated laws, which are to be discovered by observation, experiment, and comparison. This philosophy holds all inquiry into causes, both efficient and final, to be useless and unprofitable.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Immediate postpartum IUD and sterilization acceptors with fluke infestation were recruited as a comparison (control) group for the fluke-positiv DMPA acceptors.
  • (2) First, normal psychological experience, with feelings of guilt, reproach, stability, indifference; deeper awareness is suppressed with the aid of forms of defense such as scientific objectivism, positivism, and reductionism.
  • (3) Song of the summer was Waterloo Sunset by the Kinks, with its odd blend of keening melancholy and positivism.
  • (4) The second central assumption of positivism is that these "facts" are explainable or determined by general casual laws.
  • (5) The coronary angiographic findings and the in-hospital prognosis of unstable angina pectoris presenting with T wave positivization only (group A: 32 patients) or with additional ST segment elevation (group B: 27 patients) were evaluated.
  • (6) Variety of learning approach was seen as limited with a tendency towards positivism rather than relativism of knowledge.
  • (7) Psychologists' initial response was to retreat into positivism, thereby further limiting psychology's relevance and scope.
  • (8) This approach, labeled "substantive theorizing", is intended as a constructive response to recent critiqies of the logical positivism paradigm.
  • (9) Three trends within philosophy are delineated--positivism, hermeneutics, and a synthetic position.
  • (10) The incidence of chest pain and of ST-segment elevation or depression or T-wave positivization was similar during the two tests; however, spontaneous remission of ischaemia was more frequent after HV than after E and ventricular arrhythmias less frequent during the HV test.
  • (11) The major perspectives in the scientific mode, namely, mechanism, empiricism, logical positivism, and logical empiricism, were analyzed along the three dimensions of theory development, sources of knowledge, and methodology.
  • (12) In postmenopausal osteoporosis, CT, analogous to estrogens, determines increase of bone mass, improvement of intestinal calcium absorption and a positivization of calcium balance.
  • (13) Most studies of disease distribution, in medical geography and other related disciplines, have been empirical in nature and rooted in the assumptions of logical positivism.
  • (14) In this connection I have used the term 'positivism' to refer to a general orientation according to which the world can only be known through observable entities, and regularities may be demonstrated and general laws verified through their measurement and quantification.
  • (15) The psychotherapist accepts the psychotic experiences of his patients in order to transform them through his identification with them, resulting in the positivization of psychopathology.
  • (16) Prolonged administration of sodium fluoride (NaF) in patients suffering from osteoporosis or Paget's disease leads to a positive calcium balance together with positivization of the calcium balance may mean an ins, intestinal absorption of calcium was evaluated directly with the oral rrotic patients; 6 months treatment with NaF led to a significant imprt is difficult to say how this finding is connected with the drug's actide apatite crystals; the crystals' greater stability probably leads to greater resistance of fluorated bone to the action of parathormone, thus bring on hypocalcaemia which homeostatically stimulates parathyroid hyperiirect pointer to parathyroid hyperincretion.
  • (17) The moral-philosophical counterpart to the antagonism: positivism versus hermeneutics is found in the dualism: determinism versus indeterminism.
  • (18) No re-positivation was noted in the second year of the follow-up.
  • (19) Engraftment took place but, later, an explosive upsurge of viral disease occurred with encephalitis, positivation of the P24 antigen, proliferation of opportunistic infections and an increase of the IgG level.
  • (20) Thus, diagnostic investigation does not follow the paradigm of quantitative scientific method, rooted on the logic positivism, which dominates medical research and education.

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