They have a more positivist view of social science, believing objective results can be obtained by techniques like surveys and interviews.

Kenyon claimed objections to his teaching rested on a positivist view of what constitutes legitimate science.

A positivist view of science excludes an enormous area of life.

Vailati held a moderate positivist view, in both science and philosophy:

In contrast to this positivist view, he argues, sentences with truth-values form only a small part of the range of utterances.

Like pluralists and most new-right authors, elite theorists adhere to a positivist view of social science.

In this way hermeneutics challenge the positivist view that science can cumulate objective facts.

Or, I would add, were the positivist view correct, the dedication and toil of those involved.

After Auschwitz, the optimism of positivist views led to more pessimistic conceptions of science.

The standard positivist view of empirically acquired information has been that observation, experience, and experiment serve as neutral arbiters between competing theories.