neopositivistn.adj.

1896 Internat. Jrnl. Ethics 6 139 A few years ago, the youths in our schools were divided between the neo-idealists and the neo-positivists.

1935 Mind 44 540 Neo-positivists who define the class of possible operations by reference to future acts of verification can do so only by assigning some metaphysical status to time.

1964 Eng. Stud. 45 (Suppl.) 109 For the neo-positivists and the phenomenologists, physical objects are constructs out of sense-data; the ‘realists’, on the other hand, propose that physical objects are perceived by the subject by means of sense-data.

2000 Econ. & Philos. 16 50 Phenomena can be thought of as similar to what neopositivists called ‘experimental laws’, regularities occurring in some specific experimental situation.

1927 Internat. Jrnl. Ethics 38 100 In his own, we might say neo-positivist, theory he attempts to make room for the ethical significance of individuality.

1964 Eng. Stud. 45 Suppl. 109 Present-day British philosophers of the analytical or neo-positivist schools have therefore one criterion, namely the contribution to positive knowledge.

2000 Isis 91 833/1 This contention is Klee's counterpoint in his account of..positivist and neopositivist triumphs and tribulations in the attempt to achieve analytic clarity for scientific theories reconstructed as formal languages.