| 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. |
| Porter criticizes especially the unhistoric, absolutistic and positivistic tendencies of the Enlightenment and he tends to be polemic in this context. |
| Large difficulties loom upon the horizon of this positivistic insistence upon history. |
| 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. |
| Thus the scientific conservatism of Newton has led to the positivistic and agnostic phase of naturalism. |
