Explore Positivistic through 3 example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like positivist or positive. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Positivistic in a sentence
Positivistic meaning
Of or pertaining to positivism.
Synonyms of Positivistic
Using Positivistic
- The main meaning on this page is: Of or pertaining to positivism.
- Useful related words include: positivist, positive, empiricism, empiricist philosophy.
Context around Positivistic
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 1 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 3 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Positivistic
- In this selection, "positivistic" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 25 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, utilitarian, classification, complex and ideas stand out and add context to how "positivistic" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include argues that positivistic ideas about and obsession with positivistic classification and. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "positivistic" sits close to words such as aabc, aacr and aacsb, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with positivistic
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
As the world became тАЬmodernтАЭ, an obsession with positivistic classification and gender binaries emerged. (14 words)
Nurit Bird-David argues that "Positivistic ideas about the meaning of 'nature', 'life' and 'personhood' misdirected these previous attempts to understand the local concepts. (24 words)
Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1974 On the meta-theoretical level Parson attempted to balance psychologist phenomenology and idealism on the one hand and pure types of what Parsons called the utilitarian-positivistic complex, on the other hand. (37 words)
Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1974 On the meta-theoretical level Parson attempted to balance psychologist phenomenology and idealism on the one hand and pure types of what Parsons called the utilitarian-positivistic complex, on the other hand. (37 words)
Nurit Bird-David argues that "Positivistic ideas about the meaning of 'nature', 'life' and 'personhood' misdirected these previous attempts to understand the local concepts. (24 words)
As the world became тАЬmodernтАЭ, an obsession with positivistic classification and gender binaries emerged. (14 words)
Example sentences (3)
As the world became тАЬmodernтАЭ, an obsession with positivistic classification and gender binaries emerged.
Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1974 On the meta-theoretical level Parson attempted to balance psychologist phenomenology and idealism on the one hand and pure types of what Parsons called the utilitarian-positivistic complex, on the other hand.
Nurit Bird-David argues that "Positivistic ideas about the meaning of 'nature', 'life' and 'personhood' misdirected these previous attempts to understand the local concepts.