Positivism is a philosophical school that holds that all genuine knowledge is either true by definition or positive –meaning a posteriori facts derived...
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Logical positivism, later called logical empiricism, and both of which together are also known as neopositivism, is a movement whose central thesis is...
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In jurisprudence and legal philosophy, legal positivism is the theory that the existence of the law and its content depend on social facts, such as acts...
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Look up positivism in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Positivism is a philosophy which states that the only authentic knowledge is scientific knowledge...
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Polish Positivism (Polish: Pozytywizm) was a social, literary and philosophical movement that became dominant in late-19th-century partitioned Poland following...
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The positivism dispute (‹See Tfd›German: Positivismusstreit) was a political-philosophical dispute between the critical rationalists (Karl Popper, Hans...
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Sociology (section Positivism and anti-positivism)
sociological positivism, an epistemological approach outlined in the Course in Positive Philosophy (1830–1842), later included in A General View of Positivism (1848)...
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Auguste Comte (section Comte's positivism)
philosopher, mathematician and writer who formulated the doctrine of positivism. He is often regarded as the first philosopher of science in the modern...
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Antipositivism (redirect from Anti-positivism)
seeking to define. Interpretivism (anti-positivism) developed among researchers dissatisfied with post-positivism, the theories of which they considered...
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Postpositivism (redirect from Post-positivism)
postempiricism is a metatheoretical stance that critiques and amends positivism and has impacted theories and practices across philosophy, social sciences...
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