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Definition of "positivistic" [positivistic]

  • Of or pertaining to positivism (adjective)

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Use "positivistic" in a sentence
  • "Does his equation of language with factual discourse express a kind of positivistic intolerance?"
  • "Since the U.S. legal system is corruptly positivistic and managed by crude power maximizers, you can guess the modern rule."
  • "Here artists list their needs and the services they can offer in return, in a positivistic variant on one of the most haunting types of image circulating on the web in recent weeks via Occupy Wall Street: photos online at "We Are the 99%" of people holding up handwritten signs and notes to their computer's camera, testifying to the impact of their lives of student debt, recent foreclosure, unemployment."
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