positivism
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“Our positivism, our optimism, our hope in a better future is second to none. I think that’s what you’re seeing in those numbers, even as our community feels totally attacked.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2026
He looked skeptically upon the heroic positivism he encountered in his science and philosophy classes there but found solace in the books of Friedrich Nietzsche.
From New York Times ● Oct. 12, 2022
Comte believed that humanity would struggle to transition to positivism, as religions provided comforting and meaningful structure and rituals.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
But there are other, more interesting questions to ask: what is Miss World’s place now, in the era of body positivism and fourth-wave feminism?
From The Guardian ● Dec. 8, 2019
With just this meaning, then, a meaning larger and deeper than that usual to positivism, the attitude of the agnostic is instrumental and teleological.
From The Will to Doubt An essay in philosophy for the general thinker by Alfred H. Lloyd
