Positivistic science aims at objectivity and its results are viewed as scientific facts.
This methodology came into being only after years in which various attempts were made to get positivistic methodology to answer relevant nursing questions and to develop a professional scientific theory of nursing.
Current nursing practice reflects the educational preparation of nurses that is weighted heavily with scientific courses and the methodology of positivistic science.
Consequently these positivistic approaches to studying human events, unless one forced one's data crowbar style, always terminated with a kind of miscellaneous category.
Many nurses acutely aware of the complexities, contradictions, and inconsistencies of their nursing worlds have struggled and used the positivistic method in research studies.
Their loadedness with variations, changes, uncontrollables, and our negative feelings about the implications of viewing human beings as predictable left the strict scientism of positivistic method wanting at this stage of man's knowing.
The positivistic stream of thought was not more in favour of a real evolution than was the Romantic school.
In contrast, the positivistic knowledge was concerned with merely physical utilities, and lacked the ardent associations of belief hallowed by sacrifices of ancestors and worship of contemporaries.
This we may suppose to be furnished by the need of reconciling the moral rules and ideals embodied in the traditional code with the matter of fact positivistic knowledge which gradually grows up.
Such a point of view vividly realized enables us to appreciate the antagonism aroused by the positivistic point of view when it came into conflict with the traditional.
It was to this imperfect and perishing world that matter of fact, positivistic science referred.
In England and America, Comte's works found many illustrious interpreters, and congregations adhering to the "Positivistic Ritual" were formed at several places in England.
The result is what one may call the growth of naturalistic or positivistic feeling.
Lombroso, the head of the positivistic school of penal law.
Such is the teaching of Positivism, and it is just in this reference to religion that its influence extends far beyond the limits of the positivistic school.
From a positivistic point of view, however, the goal is not only practically unattainable, but it is irrational, for there seems to be every evidence that it expresses something contrary to the nature of the real.
Thus we find it sometimes coordinated with logic and ethics, and sometimes, especially in the classical positivistic systems, coordinated with the sciences of the organic functions.
The division of Physical Sciences naturally suggested that kind of subdivision which the positivisticclassification presents as a complete system of sciences.
That conversion and good works lead to something worth attaining is a new sort of positivistic hope.
Ritschl's positivistic view of the Scripture and of the whole question of revelation, was not congruous with his well-learned biblical criticism.
Large difficulties loom upon the horizon of this positivistic insistence upon history.
Mansel's endeavour, out of agnosticism to conjure the most absurdly positivistic faith, had left thinking men more exposed to scepticism, if possible, than they had been before.
