0 a believer in positivism:
1 relating to positivism:
a secular, positivist, materialist ideology
Others, even among legal positivists, believe that this road inevitably leads to a dead end.
First, he points out that many positivists accept the possibility of content-based constraints on legal validity.
Another reply available to the positivists goes still further.
As a result, inclusive positivists find themselves caught in the middle of a philosophical cross fire.
Legal positivists have spent much time and effort attempting to justify this lawyerly intuition.
The pragmatists stressed the use of the scientific method in all areas of life, and so found common cause with the positivists.
The positivists whose argument we examined had the bad luck of picking the wrong game and the wrong model of convention.
Legal positivists have long assumed that it is not.
