there is perhaps some slight admixture of satiety and scorn, which can no longer endure the bric-a-brac of ideas of the most varied origin, such as so-called Positivism at present throws on the market;
Positivism seems strongly connected to the arguments being made. It sought to understand sociology like physics, making a person into a piano key as expressed by the Underground Man in Notes from the Underground.
Of course Positivism fails to understand emotional needs and motivation because they are not observable. Sociology has moved on and does focus on the feelings and emotions of people instead of feigning that all human behavior can boil down to reason.
