positivist has definitions from the fields of religion,philosophy
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[ noun ] (religion) someone who emphasizes observable facts and excludes metaphysical speculation about origins or ultimate causes

Synonyms

rationalist

Used in print

(Brand Blanshard, "The Emotive Theory," Robert...)

This is the course the positivists took .

The positivist tells us that when we say this we are only expressing our present emotion .

Consider what follows from the positivist view .

So_far_as I can see , there is only one way_out for the positivist .

This way of escape is theoretically possible , but since it has grave difficulties of its own and has not , so_far_as I know , been urged by positivists , it is perhaps best not to spend time over it .

2
[ adjective ] (philosophy) of or relating to positivism

Examples

"positivist thinkers" "positivist doctrine" "positive philosophy"

Used in print

(Brand Blanshard, "The Emotive Theory," Robert...)

It removes our present expression and shows that the badness we meant would not be affected by this , whereas on positivist grounds it should be .

It ideally removes the past event , and shows that this would render false what we mean to say , whereas on positivist grounds it should not .

On the positivist theory , everything I sought to express by calling it evil in the first case is still present in the second .

The positivist theory would here distort our meaning beyond recognition .

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