Positivism Synonyms and Antonyms

pŏzĭ-tĭ-vĭzəm
A quality or state characterized by certainty or acceptance or affirmation and dogmatic assertiveness
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. positivity
  2. positiveness
Antonyms:
  1. negativeness
  2. negativity
The form of empiricism that bases all knowledge on perceptual experience (not on intuition or revelation)
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. logical-positivism

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Positivism Sentence Examples

  • Lastly positivism teaches a corporate instead of an individual immortality; man should desire to live on as a beneficent influence in the race.

  • In France, again, positivism is not materialism, but rather the refusal to frame a metaphysical theory.

  • In his philosophy he was mainly concerned to defend Christianity against modern Positivism.

  • Lastly, in England we have not only an influence of positivism, but also, what is more important, the synthetic philosophy of Herbert Spencer.

  • Both passed through phases of faith, but while even Positivism did not cool George Eliot's innate religious fervour, with George Sand religion was a passing experience, no deeper than her republicanism and less lasting than her socialism, and she lived and died a gentle savage.

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