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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Jurisprudence (section Legal positivism)
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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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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Polish Positivism was a social, literary and philosophical movement that became dominant in late-19th-century partitioned Poland following Romanticism...
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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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Analytic philosophy (section Logical positivism)
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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Philosophy of science (section Logical positivism)
empiricism/positivism/realism with the falsifiability criterion—have agreed that positivism is a dead-end. Friedman, Reconsidering Logical Positivism (Cambridge...
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Alexander Bogdanov (redirect from Russian positivism)
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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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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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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Islamic philosophy Italian school Jainism Kantianism Kyoto school Legal positivism Legal realism Legalism (Chinese philosophy) Liberalism Libertarianism...
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Universal history (genre) (redirect from Rankean historical positivism)
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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Sex-positive movement (redirect from Sex-positivism)
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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Ernst Laas (redirect from Idealism and Positivism)
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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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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Verificationism (category Logical positivism)
information, or factual content. Verificationism was a central theme of logical positivism, a movement in analytic philosophy that emerged in the 1920s by philosophers...
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A General View of Positivism (Discours sur l'ensemble du positivisme) is a 1848 book by the French philosopher Auguste Comte, first published in English...
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of Finance José Yves Limantour. The Porfirian regime was influenced by positivism. They rejected theology and idealism in favor of scientific methods being...
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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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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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frequently implies a critique of the more extreme expressions of logical positivism and has been used by social scientists such as Friedrich Hayek, philosophers...
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Scientism Declinations Legal positivism Logical positivism Positivist school Postpositivism Sociological positivism Machian positivism (empirio-criticism) Rankean...
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