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positivism |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Positivism \Pos"i*tiv*ism\, n. A system of philosophy originated by M. Auguste Comte, which deals only with positives. It excludes from philosophy everything but the natural phenomena or properties of knowable things together with their invariable relations of coexistence and succession, as occurring in time and space. Such relations are denominated laws, which are to be discovered by observation, experiment, and comparison. This philosophy holds all inquiry into causes, both efficient and final, to be useless and unprofitable. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: positivism n 1: the form of empiricism that bases knowledge on perceptual experience [syn: {logical positivism}] 2: a quality or state characterized by certainty or acceptance or affirmation [syn: {positivity}] [ant: {negativism}] From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]: POSITIVISM, n. A philosophy that denies our knowledge of the Real and affirms our ignorance of the Apparent. Its longest exponent is Comte, its broadest Mill and its thickest Spencer.
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