(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.
Positivist
Definition:
(n.) A believer in positivism.
(a.) Relating to positivism.
Example Sentences:
(1) This article investigates this question by examining the views of the logical positivists, Karl Popper and Imre Lakatos, and concludes that the practice of science and psychotherapy involves metaphysics in (a) problem choice, (b) research and therapy design, (c) observation statements, (d) resolving the Duhemian problem, and (e) modifying hypotheses to encompass anomalous results.
(2) These ads reflect a positivistic conceptualization of mental illness and doctoring as mind mechanics.
(3) In general, those who had experienced discontinuity were more frequently negativists or passivists, while continuity tended to characterize positivists and activists.
(4) The origins of the human science tradition are traced to the philosopher Wilhelm Dilthey, who challenged the dominance of the positivist perspective for generating knowledge of the human lifeworld.
(5) The present paper "undermines" so to speak, these three concepts by demonstrating the positivistic basis the field of conflict resolution features, even though recent contributions challenge such basis.
(6) Psychology's methodology rapidly became restricted and codified through the influence of, and in imitation of, the rigorously positivistic orientation of physics around the turn of the twentieth century.
(7) We can also expect to see net positivists getting better at clarifying what they are, and what they’re not, in the near future.
(8) Aspects of shamanic epistemology and curing survive, although native medical logic sometimes clashes with modern positivist medicine.
(9) To understand the nature of gero-transcendence gerontologists have to make a meta-theoretical shift from a traditional positivist view to a view where disengagement is phenomenologically comprehended.
(10) In contemporary psychiatry, neurobiological emphases and the exigencies of positivistic research have tended to standardize the picture of schizophrenia.
(11) Since the known presence of A1 in AD brain is not necessarily causal, a positivistic approach to research and treatment with THA and its metabolites might serve to clarify this difficult and challenging problem.
(12) First, the martial arts are influenced by Oriental styles of thinking such as Taoism and Zen Buddhism that are difficult to grasp from a Western positivist point of view.
(13) This paper attempts to explore the reasons for such a change and examine the related criticisms of the positivist school and in particular deductive experimental approaches in order to assess whether such approaches should continue to have a role in building nursing knowledge.
(14) The study proposes three patterns of contact between subject and object: the positivist approach, the comprehensive approach and the dialectical approach, most frequent philosophical streams in health studies.
(15) The author seeks to show that a paradigm shift in positivistic clinical medicine is necessitated by the history and theory of science.
(16) This model does not contain either the contradictions nor polarizations of the positivistic versus transcendentalistic frameworks of thought.
(17) Based on empirical research assessment of Primary Health Care in a shanty-town located in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), it shows that the qualitative method for the evaluation of health programs can contribute greatly to overcoming positivistic trends in the evaluation process as well as to reaching a more comprehensive perspective for the health-disease phenomenon.
(18) The "positivistic falsification" tradition requires "objective" double-blind type experimental hypothesis testing, while the "phenomenologic-hermaneutic" tradition requires the researcher to grasp the context of the phenomena to be studied in order to understand and thereafter test the most relevant variables.
(19) Under the Positivistic category such models as radical materialistic, mechanistic and cybernetic were placed.
(20) Net positivists are striving to go beyond damage control and into generating positive impacts for society and the natural world,” says Dax Lovegrove, Kingfisher’s director of sustainability.