(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.
Sense
Definition:
(v. t.) A faculty, possessed by animals, of perceiving external objects by means of impressions made upon certain organs (sensory or sense organs) of the body, or of perceiving changes in the condition of the body; as, the senses of sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch. See Muscular sense, under Muscular, and Temperature sense, under Temperature.
(v. t.) Perception by the sensory organs of the body; sensation; sensibility; feeling.
(v. t.) Perception through the intellect; apprehension; recognition; understanding; discernment; appreciation.
(v. t.) Sound perception and reasoning; correct judgment; good mental capacity; understanding; also, that which is sound, true, or reasonable; rational meaning.
(v. t.) That which is felt or is held as a sentiment, view, or opinion; judgment; notion; opinion.
(v. t.) Meaning; import; signification; as, the true sense of words or phrases; the sense of a remark.
(v. t.) Moral perception or appreciation.
(v. t.) One of two opposite directions in which a line, surface, or volume, may be supposed to be described by the motion of a point, line, or surface.
(v. t.) To perceive by the senses; to recognize.
Example Sentences:
(1) An “out” vote would severely disrupt our lives, in an economic sense and a private sense.
(2) But it will be a subtle difference, because it's already abundantly clear there's no danger of the war being suddenly forgotten, or made to seem irrelevant to our sense of what Europe and the world has to avoid repeating.
(3) One would expect banks to interpret this in a common sense and straightforward way without trying to circumvent it."
(4) Yesterday's flight may not quite have been one small step for man, but the hyperbole and the sense of history weighed heavily on those involved.
(5) Since the molecular weight of IgG is more than twice that of albumin and transferrin, it is concluded that the protein loss in Ménétrier's disease is nonselective in the sense that it affects a similar fraction of the intravascular masses of all plasma proteins.
(6) In this sense, there is evidence that in genetically susceptible individuals, environmental stresses can influence the long-term level of arterial pressure via the central and peripheral neural autonomic pathways.
(7) He captivated me, but not just because of his intellect; it was for his wisdom, his psychological insights and his sense of humour that I will always remember our dinners together.
(8) The narX gene product may be involved in sensing nitrate and phosphorylating NARL.
(9) The second reason it makes sense for Osborne not to crow too much is that in terms of output per head of population, the downturn is still not over.
(10) Longer times of radiolabeling demonstrated that the nascent RNA accumulated as 42S RNA, which was primarily of the same sense as the virion strand when it was radiolabeled at 5 h postinfection.
(11) Autonomy, sense of accomplishment and time spent in patient care ranked as the top three factors contributing to job satisfaction.
(12) Whether out of fear, indifference or a sense of impotence, the general population has learned to turn away, like commuters speeding by on the freeways to the suburbs, unseeingly passing over the squalor.
(13) The anticoagulant therapy undertaken by the patient appears to be of some benefit in the sense that no recurrence of thrombotic manifestations occurred.
(14) The results showed that measles virus produced three size classes of plus-sense N-containing RNA species corresponding to monocistronic N RNA, bicistronic NP RNA, and antigenomes.
(15) In this sense synapse formation must be considered a drawn out affair.
(16) The last time Republic of Ireland played here in Dublin they produced a performance and result to stir the senses.
(17) The problem is that too many people in this place just get advised by people who are just like them, so there’s groupthink, and they have no sense of what it’s like out there.” Is he talking about his predecessor?
(18) Stimulation threshold, sensing, and resistance measurements from both leads were comparable.
(19) We just hope that … maybe she’s gone to see her friend, talk some sense into her,” Renu said, adding that Shamima “knew that it was a silly thing to do” and that she did not know why her friend had done it.
(20) A doctor the Guardian later speaks to insists it makes no sense.