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Definition of Positivist

1. Adjective. Of or relating to positivism. "Positive philosophy"

2. Noun. Someone who emphasizes observable facts and excludes metaphysical speculation about origins or ultimate causes.

Definition of Positivist

1. n. A believer in positivism.

Definition of Positivist

1. Noun. A believer in positivism. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Positivist

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Positivist

positive sense positive side waterproofing positive side waterproofings positive stimulus positive transition positive zero positively positively charged positiveness positivenesses

positiver positives positivest positivism positivisms positivist (current term) positivistic positivists positivities positivity

positon positons positron positron emission tomography positron emission tomography scanner positronia positronic positronium positroniums positrons

Literary usage of Positivist

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The English Illustrated Magazine (1904)
"positivist: Oct. The Historical Method of Professor Freeman. ... positivist: Feb. Nomination of his Successor by P. Laffitte. positivist : June. ..."

2. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1872)
"A positivist Primer: Being a Series of Familiar Conversations on the Religion of Humanity. By CG DAVID. New York: David, Wesley & Co. 1871. ..."

3. The History of English Rationalism in the Nineteenth Century by Alfred William Benn (1906)
"Cotter Morison was, as I have said, a member of the positivist Society, and one of his ... But his last work is, from the high positivist standpoint, ..."

4. System of Positive Polity by Auguste Comte (1877)
"... I took pains to inaugurate the organic transition by the construction of the positivist Calendar; its triumphant success attests the reasonableness of ..."

5. The New Englander by William Lathrop Kingsley (1872)
"A positivist Primer: Being a Series of Familiar Conversations on the Religion of Humanity. By CG DAVID. New York: David, Wesley & Co. 1871. ..."

6. Essays Political, Social, and Religious by Richard Congreve (1892)
"Accept, my dear Confrere, the expression of my respect and fraternal devotion, FABIEN MAGNIN, Working Engineer, President of the positivist Society, ..."

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