| Lucretius was too literal, positivistic, and insistent for such a delicate task. |
| Porter criticizes especially the unhistoric, absolutistic and positivistic tendencies of the Enlightenment and he tends to be polemic in this context. |
| 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. |
| And though the highly effective sniping of his so-called positivistic period continues, one feels a more comprehensive grasp of what he is moving towards. |
