We have remarked that truths of the purely ideal order have none but a hypothetical value, and that in order to produce a positive science, they require facts to which they may apply.
Causes of the progress of pessimism in the present epoch—Progress of pantheistic metaphysics and of positive science—Penalties incident to thought and reflection—Mental depression and sense of powerlessness, etc.
The second cause of contemporary pessimism is the rapid progress of positive science, and the revelations it is making in regard to the natural world.
Names as famous as that of Lombroso[40] which are associated with the progress of positive science, lend the weight of their authority to this form of condemnation!
And this is proved by the glorious discoveries of positive science, which we may trace back to far distant foreshadowings; what was in danger of being lost has been born again with an overpowering fertility.
Comte's notion that every scientific discipline must pass through a theological and metaphysical stage before it assumed the character of a positive science seems to be true as far as sociology is concerned.
Would you favor turning over the government to control of experts as soon as sociology became a positive science?
Comte, if he was foremost, was not first in the search for a positive science of society, which would give man that control over men that he had over external nature.
It thus obtains a symbolism which is convenient, perhaps even necessary to positive science, but not a direct vision of its object.
From the point of view of positive science, an incomparable progress was realized when the organized tissues were resolved into cells.
At first sight, it may seem prudent to leave the consideration of facts to positive science, to let physics and chemistry busy themselves with matter, the biological and psychological sciences with life.
Positive science is, in fact, a work of pure intellect.
Comte's view of the method of positive science, which though not more unphilosophical than the last mentioned, is of greater practical importance.
I have already had occasion to rise the expression "scientific psychology," or psychology as a positive science, and the meaning of this expression must now be more carefully considered.
For the present, however, let us see what can be said about it from that standpoint of positive science to which we have hitherto been keeping.
Here it expresses a fact; in positive science it is a mere metaphor, and, as experience shows, a misleading one.
He affirms that after analysis has done its utmost there remains an unexplained residuum beyond the reach of the instruments or the methods of positive science.
Save as a metaphor, "freedom" has no place whatever in positive science.
And what ground is left for the reckless prediction that Theology is doomed, and must fall before the onward march of Positive Science?
Positive science, we are told, presents the universe to us as an immense homogeneous transformation, maintaining an exact equivalence between departure and arrival.
But let us avoid being duped by a show of printed matter: these unannotated pages are supported by positive science submitted to the most minute inspection.
Let us be candid: it is not really a thesis of positive science, but a metaphysical thesis in the unpleasant meaning of the term.
The Early Thinkers It is the object of the present work to show how philosophy became a positive science; to indicate by what methods the human mind was enabled to conquer its present modicum of certain knowledge.
The position occupied by philosophy in the history of mankind is that of the great initiative to positive science.
Had he always held before his eyes this conception of science, he would have anticipated Bacon--he would have been the Father of Positive Science.
The justification of all who have freed themselves from labour is now based upon this experimental, critical, positive science.
So, the psychology, for instance, is not a positive science.
Thus, it is not a positive science and so, its prediction could be good only on short range.
BC: Euclid's Geometry This is the first fundamental symbolic model ever created (a positive science).
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "positive science" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
