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Definition of Positivisms
1. positivism [n] - See also: positivism
Lexicographical Neighbors of Positivisms
Literary usage of Positivisms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Collected Essays and Reviews by William James (1920)
"... faith of all positivisms. Weary of the infinitely receding chase after a
theoretically warranted Absolute, they return to their starting-point and break ..."
2. Historical Philosophy in France and French Belgium and Switzerland by Robert Flint (1893)
"Repeatedly he used the term positif in the sense which suggested the formation
of the term positivisms. He employed habitually the word " philosophy" to ..."
3. Brieux and Contemporary French Society by William H. Scheifley (1917)
"Pol., p.'aoo. 2 Paul de Broglie remarks in this connection that "he who promises
must keep his word." La Reaction centre le positivisms (1894), p. 85. ..."
4. Diderot and the Encyclopœdists by John Morley (1878)
"1 We cannot wonder that when Comte drew up his list of the hundred and fifty
volumes that should form the good positivisms ..."