Get to know Positivists better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning.
Positivists meaning
plural of positivist
Using Positivists
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of positivist
- In the example corpus, positivists often appears in combinations such as: logical positivists, legal positivists, positivists were.
Context around Positivists
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 6 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 12 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Positivists
- In this selection, "positivists" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 25.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, logical, legal, post, appreciated, main and quine stand out and add context to how "positivists" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include attacking the positivists for dismissing and contemporary legal positivists have long. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "positivists" sits close to words such as aadi, aakash and aayush, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with positivists
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
He did excellent work attacking the positivists for dismissing minds in favor of experiments. (14 words)
Logical positivists culled from Ludwig Wittgenstein's early philosophy of language the verifiability principle or criterion of meaningfulness. (18 words)
Modern legal positivists consider international law as a unified system of rules that emanates from the states' will. (18 words)
It is consistent with Dworkin's view—in contrast with the views of legal positivists or legal realists—that no-one in a society may know what its laws are, because no-one may know the best justification for its practices. (41 words)
Some philosophers used to contend that positivism was the theory that there is "no necessary connection" between law and morality; but influential contemporary positivists, including Joseph Raz, John Gardner, and Leslie Green, reject that view. (35 words)
Unity of science Logical positivists were generally committed to " Unified Science ", and sought a common language or, in Neurath's phrase, a "universal slang" whereby which all scientific propositions could be expressed. (32 words)
Example sentences (12)
There were post-positivists as far back as the 1960s and those political scientists who were more statistical and quantitative also go back to the 50s and 60s.
He did excellent work attacking the positivists for dismissing minds in favor of experiments.
Although the Vienna Circle's logical positivists appreciated the Tractatus, they argued that the last few passages, including Proposition 7, are confused.
It is consistent with Dworkin's view—in contrast with the views of legal positivists or legal realists—that no-one in a society may know what its laws are, because no-one may know the best justification for its practices.
John Austin, The Providence of Jurisprudence Determined (1831) Contemporary legal positivists have long abandoned this view, and have criticised its oversimplification, H. L. A. Hart particularly.
Legal positivists main Positivism simply means that law is something that is "posited": laws are validly made in accordance with socially accepted rules.
Like the logical positivists, Quine evinced little interest in the philosophical canon: only once did he teach a course in the history of philosophy, on Hume.
Logical positivists culled from Ludwig Wittgenstein's early philosophy of language the verifiability principle or criterion of meaningfulness.
Modern legal positivists consider international law as a unified system of rules that emanates from the states' will.
Some philosophers used to contend that positivism was the theory that there is "no necessary connection" between law and morality; but influential contemporary positivists, including Joseph Raz, John Gardner, and Leslie Green, reject that view.
Thus, the phenomenological language that most positivists were still emphasizing was to be replaced by the language of mathematical physics.
Unity of science Logical positivists were generally committed to " Unified Science ", and sought a common language or, in Neurath's phrase, a "universal slang" whereby which all scientific propositions could be expressed.
Common combinations with positivists
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: