positivist
- n someone who emphasizes observable facts and excludes metaphysical speculation about origins or ultimate causes
- a of or relating to positivism
positivist thinkers
positivist doctrine
- Auguste Comte (1798-1857), French positivist philosopher: "What an irreparable loss!" Hart Crane (1899-1932), poet, as he jumped into the sea: "Goodbye, every body!".
- Along with the positivist decline has come a revival of the pre-Gnostic views of the world, Mortimer Adler and others have made much more visible the body of Catholic scholastic .
- Lager too still aspired to make a positivist art about modern life based on classical principles.