| Porter criticizes especially the unhistoric, absolutistic and positivistic tendencies of the Enlightenment and he tends to be polemic in this context. |
| History shows how easily both quietists and fanatics have drawn inspiration from the absolutistic scheme. |
| The more absolutistic and exclusivistic such differences become, the more they are seen as threats. |
| Bharati in his Tantric Traditions aptly terms detrimental to the study of Indian Absolutistic philosophy irrelevant to any Tantric study. |
| Four categories of irrational beliefs are defined, representing thinking modes which are nonempirical and reflect an absolutistic view of reality. |
| Based on this premise, cognitive therapists persuaded clients that their emotional difficulties were largely self-generated by absolutistic, self-defeating beliefs. |
