1 By far the most popular idea is the positivist one that we should keep only the facts.

2 Even within its own terms of reference, the positivist approach has problems.

3 Oakeshott argues that the positivist fails to identify the essentially abstract character of science as a mode of experience.

4 The positivist approach to human behaviour applies a similar logic.

5 Much environmental prediction is predicated upon a logical positivist or Newtonian deterministic basis.

6 Positivist criminology, on the other hand, seemed scarcely to recognise it at all.

7 In this respect Hirschi shared the long-standing positivist rejection of the central tenet of classicism: deterrence.

8 From a positivist viewpoint such methods and assumptions are applicable to human behaviour.

9 Weber himself seems to take a Humean or Positivist view of causation.

10 Learning theories have been much more important in positivist theorising about the acquisition of criminal tendencies.

11 His approach was positivist and rationalist and his general objective was to lay down a theory of social evolution.

12 To the extent that positivist criminology incorporates a realistic, manageable version of determinism, it becomes compatible with its classical predecessor.

13 Positivist research has generated much data about specific relationships between individual or social characteristics and the likelihood of conviction.

14 That is Taoist pragmatistic crisis and positivist crisis.

15 This paper emphasis that the positivist study of decision making in the part tend to prefer rational analysis to intuitive approach.

16 The methodology of new analytical positivist jurisprudence of which is Hart is the typical example.

17 From the logical positivist perspective,[] rationality concerns the selection of preferred behavior alternatives in terms of some system of values whereby the consequences of behavior can be evaluated.

18 Influenced by the logical positivist world outlook, quantitative career assessment has prevailed in career counseling since its beginnings in the early 1900s.

19 These methods, however, seemed to be largely based on positivist conceptions of social science.

20 The replacement of free will with scientific determinism was consequently the crucial starting point for the new positivist criminology.

21 I think this has been well illustrated in the previous chapters - particularly in the case of positivist criminology.

22 This was especially the case when pragmatism was conjoined to a legal positivist outlook.

23 As a first stage in this process, she catalogues a range of critiques of positivist approaches to knowledge and suggests alternatives.

24 But of course natural law is false judged by positivist assumptions just as positivism is false judged by natural law assumptions.

25 The implications of such a view were potentially disastrous for positivist criminology.

26 I have been variously called a nominalist, an instrumentalist, a positivist, a realist, and several other ists.

27 In doing so I will be making frequent reference to the empirical research findings of criminologists working mostly in the positivist tradition.

28 Classical sociology emerges as a reaction to this form of positivist scientistic thought.

29 "Pure Jurisprudence", advocated by Kelson, is the major school in Western analytical Positivist jurisprudence.

30 This criticism, aesthetically, is based upon Kantian aesthetics and positivist aesthetics.

31 The hybrid imagery crafted in the style of comic grotesque subverts the positivist epistemology and classification, and emanates a strong dynamic and pleasure of anthropomorphism.

32 In discussing means and ends, as well as facts and values, Simon (1947) is forthcoming concerning his own (logical positivist) philosophical perspective.

33 First, through analysis on Hsu's composition, the author explains the reasons why Hsu regarded Wang as a logical positivist .

34 The positivist doctrine implies that nature and reality, in providing the sense data that the protocol sentences register, write their own story upon the white sheet of the human mind.

35 However, naturalist literature is contrary to positivist philosphy in terms of social cognition and the retroaction of literature to society and nature.