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But anyway, positivistic thinking of this kind is beside the point.

However most German historians considered the approach too positivistic for their taste, and not philosophical enough.

Cultural Institutions Studies do not claim objectivity and a positivistic analysis.

Benedict maintained that in the Western world, to a large degree, only positivistic reason and philosophy are valid.

That temperament is marked by intelligence but it is not positivistic or intellectual.

This has been the favourite explanatory imagery of mainstream positivistic criminology.

Probably by giving the hero some positivistic features the writer wanted to show that the decision about the separation was necessary in order to help others.

Maslow himself found it difficult to accept religious experience as valid unless placed in a positivistic framework.

Also, it has a positivistic look at the enlightenment philosophy and its latent redeemer matters.

The positivistic contempt for theoretical deliberations is evident in these two quotations.

In fact, member checks are not consistent with the philosophy of non positivistic qualitative research methods.

A statement about a causal relationship in positivistic research is something like the following; if you perform action x to subject y, then z happens.

The positivistic method should, said Comte, no longer aim at a revelation of ultimate causes.

I am as positivistic a scientist as you will find anywhere in the Mississippi drainage basin.

(For this reason the positivistic approach is sometimes referred to as the 'individualized treatment model'.)

Murko was trained in the positivistic style of philology.

In psychology, a positivistic approach has historically been favoured in behaviourism.

These theories were brought from positivistic criminology which looked at epistemological perspectives of delinquency.

This theory can also prevent the loss of ancient positivistic knowledge and preserve live cultures in face of globalization.

Cultivation Analysis is a positivistic theory, meaning it assumes the existence of objective reality and value-neutral research.

Instrumentalism gives a naïve positivistic conception of the relationship between the governed and legal regulation.

Pragmatic validity in research looks to a different paradigms than more traditional, (post)positivistic research approaches.

In political history, however, Mr. Caro's narrow, positivistic cult of the fact will take you only so far.

It should be based entirely on directly observable phenomena (in line with his positivistic leanings)

The fundamental ideology of the Ateneo was a rejection of positivistic influences on education and culture.