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He wanted to be identified by the world as a "positivist".

The positivists' rejection of free will was fundamental to their position.

However, no positivist has ever asserted that law is made valid by anyone's decision.

As a good positivist, he believed that criminals have little control over their actions.

Admittedly, most positivists had acknowledged that there were problems with their data.

The logical positivists held a wide range of views on many matters.

The paper is an attack on two central aspects of the logical positivists' philosophy.

Where Parsons departed from the positivists was on the criteria for science.

Under the influence of positivists and scientific thinkers, the government assisted in public education.

The measures taken by the government alarmed civilian republicans and the positivists in the military.

Born a little later, he would have been a Logical Positivist.

In the twentieth century, two positivists had a profound influence on the philosophy of law.

Of course, some philosophers who were not logical positivists disagreed with this.

Logical positivists typically considered philosophy as having a very limited function.

The logical positivists, for example, associated meaning with scientific verification.

There are only two distinctions of statements that have any meaning to logical positivists.

Others have observed that, for a 'positivist', he makes significant concessions to natural law thought.

Dicey should not, I believe, be viewed primarily in a modern light as a legal positivist.

Logical positivists in response wanted to stop such metaphysical entities from being used as an explanation.

The logical positivists thought of scientific theories as statements in a formal language.

Logical positivists ask: "What is the meaning of life?"

Brazilian Positivists believed that a republic was superior to monarchy.

In the world according to the positivist, the inspiring thing about scrambled eggs is that any way you turn them they're sunny side up.

Unlike materialists positivists do not make any claims about a primary substance such as matter.

Such scholars may see themselves as either positivists or antipositivists.

Even within its own terms of reference, the positivist approach has problems.

The positivist approach assumes that a science of society is possible.

In terms of sociology, the positivist approach makes the following assumptions.

Social network analysis is an example of a new paradigm in the positivist tradition.

They began training from the age of twenty-eight, studying in positivist schools.

These methods, however, seemed to be largely based on positivist conceptions of social science.

The years between 1880 and 1930 saw a rise of positivist essayists.

This positivist approach to international law strengthened over time.

The positivist approach to human behaviour applies a similar logic.

The positivist tradition is popular to this day, particularly in the United States.

Their positivist successors retained the end but reversed the means.

Or, I would add, were the positivist view correct, the dedication and toil of those involved.

There were many points on which Durkheim agreed with the positivist thesis.

In line with the tendency of the day, his philosophy was positivist and crossed into psychology.

The positivist approach claims to be objective but it is no more ideology-free than any other.

Unlike many positivist thinkers before him, he believed that subjectivity does play a role in science and society.

The argument takes aim at the positivist idea that law and politics can be entirely separated from one another.

The book sounded a powerful call for the application of positivist methods in comparative education studies.

The implications of such a view were potentially disastrous for positivist criminology.

A positivist view of science excludes an enormous area of life.

Social research began most intentionally, however, with the positivist philosophy of science in the 19th century.

There are many positivist political scientists who do not adopt rational-choice assumptions.

It has often been argued that systems theory in sociology adopts a positivist approach.

It was one of the leading journals of the Polish positivist movement.

A judge interpreting such a law from a positivist viewpoint would look to a definition of the words in the statute.