Positivism is a philosophical school that holds that all genuine knowledge is either true by definition or positive—meaning a posteriori facts derived...

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...

Logical positivism, later called logical empiricism, and both of which together are also known as neopositivism, is a movement whose central thesis is...

Look up positivism in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Positivism is a philosophy which states that the only authentic knowledge is scientific knowledge...

philosopher, mathematician and writer who formulated the doctrine of positivism. He is often regarded as the first philosopher of science in the modern...

sociological positivism, an epistemological approach outlined in the Course in Positive Philosophy (1830–1842), later included in A General View of Positivism (1848)...

postempiricism is a metatheoretical stance that critiques and amends positivism and has impacted theories and practices across philosophy, social sciences...

The positivism dispute (German: Positivismusstreit) was a political-philosophical dispute between the critical rationalists (Karl Popper, Hans Albert)...

legal systems. It encompasses such theories of jurisprudence as legal positivism, holds that there is no necessary connection between law and morality...

Strategic positivism is an approach that recognizes the limitations and potential of positivist methods, using them strategically for emancipatory goals...

seeking to define. Interpretivism (anti-positivism) developed among researchers dissatisfied with post-positivism, the theories of which they considered...

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...

law with an analytical approach to jurisprudence and a theory of legal positivism. Austin opposed traditional approaches of "natural law", arguing against...

Polish Positivism was a social, literary and philosophical movement that became dominant in late-19th-century partitioned Poland following Romanticism...

(Idealism and Positivism, 1879–1884, 3 volumes), he drew a clear contrast between Platonism, from which he derived transcendentalism, and positivism, of which...

empiricism/positivism/realism with the falsifiability criterion—have agreed that positivism is a dead-end. Friedman, Reconsidering Logical Positivism (Cambridge...

Comte first described the epistemological perspective of positivism in The Course in Positive Philosophy, a series of texts published between 1830 and...

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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Jahrhunderts. Zur Geschichte des russischen Positivismus [The history of Russian positivism.]. Hildesheim, Germany: Georg Olms Verlag. 278 pp. Wikimedia Commons has...

A General View of Positivism (Discours sur l'ensemble du positivisme) is a 1844 book by the French philosopher Auguste Comte, first published in English...

The sex-positive movement is a social and philosophical movement that seeks to change cultural attitudes and norms around sexuality, promoting the recognition...

modern reworking of it. Legal positivism, which is the view that law depends primarily on social facts. Legal positivism has traditionally been associated...

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...

has been influenced by a number of branches of philosophy, for example, positivism, postpositivism, critical theory, and constructivism. The historical transitions...

Legal Positivism (Il Positivismo Giuridico) is a book by the Italian jurist Norberto Bobbio about one of the ontological elements of foundations of law...

surroundings and from that, a new species would be created over time. Biological positivism is a theory or approach that takes an individual's characteristics and...

Philosophy of Lifeless Reaction" in Leninist Dialectics and the Metaphysics of Positivism (1979). In 1902 Pavel Ivanovich Novgorodtsev edited the book Problems...

and so on (also see the third man). Logical empiricism (also logical positivism or neopositivism) was an early 20th-century attempt to synthesize the...

Harald Høffding, who later in his life moved on to join the movement of positivism. Another Danish philosopher of note is Grundtvig, whose philosophy gave...