(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.
Rationalist
Definition:
(n.) One who accepts rationalism as a theory or system; also, disparagingly, a false reasoner. See Citation under Reasonist.
Example Sentences:
(1) As a self-described rationalist, she felt compelled to act.
(2) I just don’t understand what the problem is for the Liberal party, which is meant to be the economic rationalist party, to support that.” The Climate Institute said it hoped to see Australia’s timeline for setting post-2020 emissions reduction goals in New York.
(3) Explanations of rural-urban fertility differentials have normally lain in assumptions about the traditionalist nature of rural, and especially agricultural, societies in contrast to the more rationalist and modern attitudes towards the family that exist in urban societies.
(4) Lichtenberg is shown to have insisted upon the need for a systematic and rationalistic study of dreams, to have analyzed individual dreams (describing them as dramatized representations of thoughts, associations, and even conflicts from his own waking life), and to have emphasized the functional link between dreams and daydreams.
(5) Thus, my solution generates its own contradiction for I have again, as Scholnick argues, based my solution at some level of organicism: a point that will not escape the discerning realist or, for that matter, the discerning rationalist.
(6) One after another incident is happening and they are not able to do anything.” Debasish Debu, a friend of Das, said the 33-year-old banker was also an editor of a quarterly magazine called Jukti (Logic) and headed the Sylhet-based science and rationalist council.
(7) The modified conceptions of health and illness can help to overcome the division between subject and object, a consequence of Cartesian rationalistic thought.
(8) One of the major problems that surrounds this molecule is the myocardial contractility depression, the solution of which could allow a more rationalistic therapeutic approach to that which remains one of the most complex and delicate clinical framework.
(9) Into the electric world intrude elements that displace modernity – ghosts, monsters, devil worship and, for some rationalists, religion itself.
(10) Rationalistic simplifications in legal quarters, changes in legal procedures and bureaucracy have had negative effects on the field of forensic medicine.
(11) Explicit motivations tend to be objective and rationalist, concerned with such goals as the advancement and organization of knowledge.
(12) Two approaches to decision making are outlined: the rationalist perspective and the phenomenological perspective, and a model illustrating each is discussed.
(13) It’s the single greatest threat to our way of life since the 1940s.” Jeremy Lawrence, who had donned a papier-mâché shark as a hat, said he was marching as an “economic rationalist and libertarian”.
(14) Baez rebelled young and not for the sake of it; she was a little rationalist.
(15) Tolstoy used the character of Prince Bolkonski to exemplify the rationalistic, Western-influenced aristocracy that dominated Russia at the end of the 18th century.
(16) As rationalists, should one also reject the Queen's Christmas message Robin It definitely exists.
(17) Are there any rationalist jokes that would be suitable for a Christmas cracker?
(18) These two ways of knowing have been variously described by Bruner as paradigmatic vs. narrative, by Kuzel as rationalistic vs. naturalistic, and by Stephens as seeing vs. hearing.
(19) rationalistic) casted beyond the reefs of knowing the author tries to find traces to make up a new perspective of the horizon.
(20) This paper attacks the Kantian conception of mortality that predominates in our society and the rationalist educational strategies that flow from it.