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English
Etymology
From neo- + positivist.
Adjective
neopositivist (comparative more neopositivist, superlative most neopositivist)
- Of or relating to neopositivism.
2012 March 16, Edward Tenner, “Why Wikipedia's Fans Shouldn't Gloat”, in The Atlantic: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.
2017, Manu Bazzano, Zen and Therapy: Heretical Perspectives, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 14: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.
Noun
neopositivist (plural neopositivists)
- An adherent of neopositivism.