positivistically

Aware of this history, spiritual writers positivistically adopted much of the language of physical science, speaking of "force fields" and "biological energy".

Although he was positivistically inclined, Braithwaite was a Christian, having been brought up a Quaker and becoming an Anglican later.

In Kafka's world, contingent reality has been completely unhitched from the realm of the intelligible, from Truth that is-a positivistically ruled domain where the mutual causal relations between things preclude any reference to the transcendent in the elucidation of their meaning.