neopositivist

comparative more neopositivist · superlative most neopositivist · alternative neo-positivist

1. Of or relating to neopositivism.

   Written by accretion rather than from a single author's interpretation Wikipedia has a neo-positivist mania for facts that devalues interpretation in depth, yet in matching Friedrich's review against Nabokov it also shows that it is far from neutral.

   2012 March 16, Edward Tenner, “Why Wikipedia's Fans Shouldn't Gloat”, in The Atlantic

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   The neo-positivist stance is by far the dominant discourse of our age. Roughly put, it sees the world as an orderly cosmos. It believes that humans can navigate, deal with and master it to their advantage, and that knowledge (particularly scientific knowledge) can curb the anxiety and uncertainty of living-and-dying.

   2017, Manu Bazzano, Zen and Therapy: Heretical Perspectives, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 14

plural neopositivists · alternative neo-positivist

1. An adherent of neopositivism.