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    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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  • Legal positivism is a school of thought of philosophy of law and jurisprudence which holds that law is constructed from social facts, without regards to...
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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 was a social, literary and philosophical movement that became dominant in late-19th-century partitioned Poland following Romanticism...
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    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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    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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    seeking to define. Interpretivism (anti-positivism) developed among researchers dissatisfied with post-positivism, the theories of which they considered...
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    legal systems. It encompasses such theories of jurisprudence as legal positivism, which holds that there is no necessary connection between law and morality...
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    postempiricism is a metatheoretical stance that critiques and amends positivism and has impacted theories and practices across philosophy, social sciences...
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  • Strategic positivism is an approach that recognizes the limitations and potential of positivist methods, using them strategically for emancipatory goals...
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  • The positivism dispute (German: Positivismusstreit) was a political-philosophical dispute between the critical rationalists (Karl Popper, Hans Albert)...
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    law with an analytical approach to jurisprudence and a theory of legal positivism. Austin opposed traditional approaches of "natural law", arguing against...
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  • philosophers, W. V. O. Quine, and Karl Popper. After the decline of logical positivism, Saul Kripke, David Lewis, and others led a revival in metaphysics. Analytic...
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  • empiricism/positivism/realism with the falsifiability criterion—have agreed that positivism is a dead-end. Friedman, Reconsidering Logical Positivism (Cambridge...
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    July 25, 1885, in Strasbourg) was a gymnasium teacher, philosopher of positivism and education, and chair of philosophy and pedagogy at the University...
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    Jahrhunderts. Zur Geschichte des russischen Positivismus [The history of Russian positivism.]. Hildesheim, Germany: Georg Olms Verlag. 278 pp. Wikimedia Commons has...
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  • conceptual field in the nineteenth century. Social science was influenced by positivism, focusing on knowledge based on actual positive sense experience and avoiding...
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  • explored below. Comte first described the epistemological perspective of positivism in The Course in Positive Philosophy, a series of texts published between...
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  • of Legal positivism. He is mainly known for having introduced the thought of Hans Kelsen in France and his contribution to the Legal positivism. Having...
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  • A universal history is a work aiming at the presentation of a history of all of humankind as a whole. Universal historians try to identify connections...
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  • Islamic philosophy Italian school Jainism Kantianism Kyoto school Legal positivism Legal realism Legalism (Chinese philosophy) Liberalism Libertarianism...
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  • The sex-positive movement is a social and philosophical movement that seeks to change cultural attitudes and norms around sexuality, promoting the recognition...
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  • Legal Positivism (Il Positivismo Giuridico) is a book by the Italian jurist Norberto Bobbio about one of the ontological elements of foundations of law...
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    has been influenced by a number of branches of philosophy, for example, positivism, postpositivism, critical theory, and constructivism. The historical transitions...
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    Nihilism New Confucianism Neo-scholasticism Pragmatism Phenomenology Positivism Reductionism Rationalism Social contract Socialism Transcendentalism Utilitarianism...
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    modern reworking of it. Legal positivism, which is the view that law depends primarily on social facts. Legal positivism has traditionally been associated...
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    Scientism Declinations Legal positivism Logical positivism Positivist school Postpositivism Sociological positivism Machian positivism (empirio-criticism) Rankean...
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    and so on (also see the third man). Logical empiricism (also logical positivism or neopositivism) was an early 20th-century attempt to synthesize the...
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    Scientism Declinations Legal positivism Logical positivism Positivist school Postpositivism Sociological positivism Machian positivism (empirio-criticism) Rankean...
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