| The positivistic stream of thought was not more in favour of a real evolution than was the Romantic school. |
| Large difficulties loom upon the horizon of this positivistic insistence upon history. |
| Thus the scientific conservatism of Newton has led to the positivistic and agnostic phase of naturalism. |
| Characteristically the past is given in doxology, not in positivistic reportage. |
| It was to this imperfect and perishing world that matter of fact, positivistic science referred. |
| The first, intentionally dry, title of my talk, is in parody of the sober, positivistic titles one got in the heyday of British structural functionalism. |
