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positivism

[ US /ˈpɑzətɪˌvɪzəm/ ]
[ UK /pˈɒzɪtˌɪvɪzəm/ ]
NOUN
  1. a quality or state characterized by certainty or acceptance or affirmation and dogmatic assertiveness
  2. 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.
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