| It was to this imperfect and perishing world that matter of fact, positivistic science referred. |
| There is no such a thing as neutrality: we have come to end of the positivistic age of reason, whereby anything could be explained. |
| Thus the scientific conservatism of Newton has led to the positivistic and agnostic phase of naturalism. |
| Adopting the assumptions of an ecological contextualist approach creates multiple opportunities for valid research endeavors that diverge from traditional positivistic models. |
| Characteristically the past is given in doxology, not in positivistic reportage. |
| Some philosophers and philosophically-minded physicists may have been misled on this score by their allegiance to an excessively positivistic epistemology of science. |
