| Large difficulties loom upon the horizon of this positivistic insistence upon history. |
| The positivistic stream of thought was not more in favour of a real evolution than was the Romantic school. |
| There is no such a thing as neutrality: we have come to end of the positivistic age of reason, whereby anything could be explained. |
| Porter criticizes especially the unhistoric, absolutistic and positivistic tendencies of the Enlightenment and he tends to be polemic in this context. |
| 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. |
