| 单词 |
positivistic |
| 释义 |
positivistic, a.|pɒzɪtɪˈvɪstɪk|
[f. prec. + -ic.]
1. Of or pertaining to positivists; of the nature of positivism.
1875N. Amer. Rev. CXX. 280 A positivistic, yet anti-Comtian spirit. 1898Contemp. Rev. Sept. 421 Roberty is professedly a naturalistic, or positivistic, sociologist. 1927M. R. Cohen in Proc. 6th Internat. Congr. Philos., 1926 471 The same system of legal rights and duties may be expressible in positivistic or in idealistic language. 1935[see anti-metaphysical s.v. anti-1 3 b and c]. 1938B. F. Skinner Bahavior of Organisms ii. 44 So far as scientific method is concerned, the system set up..is positivistic. It confines itself to description rather than explanation. 1956J. O. Urmson Philos. Analysis viii. 119 It might be thought that such a characterization of positivistic analysis embodied an illegitimate nostalgia. 1961M. C̆apek Philos. Impact Contemp. Physics xvi. 297 A similar positivistic motive is conspicuously present in the minds of physicists dealing with the problems of determinism in quantum mechanics. 1975Sci. Amer. Feb. 101/1 Thinkers of a mystical turn of mind..consider it the..most fundamental of all metaphysical questions... Those of a positivistic, pragmatic turn of mind consider it trivial.
2. Characterized by positiveness. rare.
1893F. Adams New Egypt 36 There was abundance of pretty red herrings here to draw themselves across the trail of a direct and positivistic pursuit of the real game. |
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