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US
/ˈpɑzətɪˌvɪzəm/
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[ UK /pˈɒzɪtˌɪvɪzəm/ ]
[ UK /pˈɒzɪtˌɪvɪzəm/ ]
NOUN
- a quality or state characterized by certainty or acceptance or affirmation and dogmatic assertiveness
- the form of empiricism that bases all knowledge on perceptual experience (not on intuition or revelation)
How To Use positivism In A Sentence
- We are therefore indebted to materialism, to positivism, to naturalism for this unhealthy and often disingenuous reflowering of religious exaltation. Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic
- Otherwise it seems you end up in logical positivism, which is relf-refuting. So, is it over? - The Panda's Thumb
- To twentieth philosophy, Mach is best known as a positivist who influenced Logical Positivism, a philosopher of physics who influenced Einstein, and an empiricist who denied the reality of atoms. Ernst Mach
- Positivism is the logical starting point of French comparative literature studies.
- In logical empiricism methodology, Falsificationism is the core while Positivism is the complement.
- The refusal to acknowledge emotive arguments is annoying and very much in the vein of English Language Positivism.
- Normative positivism asserts what legal positivists deny, namely that there is a necessary connection between law and positive morality.
- Realism directed its challenge to the attempt to construct an autonomous science of law which was rooted in legal positivism.
- Milne's metaphysical views were based in positivism, most especially in operationalism: only those objects whose properties could be directly revealed by some observational procedure, or operation, were to be counted among the real.
- Carry over the assumptions of philosophical positivism and the basic notions of revelation will become nonsense.