Use "positivism" in a sentence

1. A founder of the Positivist school of criminology, Lombroso hereby opposed social positivism developed by the Chicago school and environmental criminology

2. �It is the city which is the hotbed of every kind of false philosophy, of Stoicism, Epicureanism, Agnosticism, Secularism, Scepticism, Positivism, Infidelity, and Atheism

3. Positivism flourished in the latter half of the 19th century; its elements can be found in such diverse thinkers as Comte the French philosopher and the founder of positivism, the English social theorist, Herbert Spencer and Ernst Mach

4. New trends in the philosophy of science have questioned some of the scientistic assumptions of positivism, namely: there is an external world that can be fully explained in scientific language; that language stands in a one-to-one relationship to the facts; the facts can be fully discovered by observation and experiment; scientific observation and experiments are based upon what our senses can reveal, scientific theories are built up by the accumulation of more data; these theories are objective and not reliant on personal predilections; and the scientific knowledge that results is proven knowledge of the world as it objectively is

5. Your Subconsciousness also maintains in this Form close contact with subjects of your previous refocusings which are “nearest” to you in frequency, and it draws inexplicable fears and phobias, amiability and enmity, love and hatred, positivism and aversions, sympathies and antipathies “from there”

6. Laoutzeism, Confucianism, Buddhism, Brahminism, Mohammedanism, Romanism, political Protestantism, Positivism, Germanic Idealism, Mormonism, the modern spiritualistic Sorcery, (with its signally inconsistent denial of the Scripture doctrine on infernal spirits),—have not these all alike been works of art adapted to 'deceive the nations’ into rejecting true Christianity? Evil could not pass into currency except it were gilded

7. A perfectly logical materialism which, denying a spiritual basis of mind in man, denies it also in the universe, and enforces the result in a speculative positivism and atheism, may under certain circumstances become a real danger to society

8. Who, then, can wonder that a Christianity so diminished in its forces both to win and to appall, so pale and so colorless, naturally maintains a doubtful fight with the stiff-necked pagans of Asia? Is there not required a doctrine that commends itself more cogently to the reason and to the conscience of men, of the teachers as well as the taught, to their imagination not less than to their affections,—a love so real, so tender and intelligible—a terror so soul-subduing, so near at hand, and so appreciably just,—as to shake if it cannot vanquish the stoutest resistance of the heathen;—a hope of speedy victory to the Church, sufficient to restore the death-daring energies of the first century, and a courage founded on overpowering conviction which would engage in closer conflict with Eastern Buddhism, and the stolid positivism of Confucius? That 'throneless king,’ as the Chinese call him, would soon, I trust in God, lose much of his, opposing power, before a Savior preached as if He were the very JESUS of the gospels, 'coming again quickly’ to be the Lord of the world

9. “What does the Sokal hoax say about the prospects for positivism?”

10. In the doctrine of Positivism, certain men's way of understanding science is regarded as absolutely correct and true

11. It is said that by reason one cannot apprehend the truth, because reason is liable to error: there is another way, unmistakable and almost mechanical,—one must study facts on the ground of science; that is, on two groundless suppositions, Positivism and Evolution, which are offered as the most undoubted truths

12. , of the two hypotheses of positivism and evolution, which are not borne out by any thing, and which give themselves out as undoubted truths