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

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

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...

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)...

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

Polish Positivism (Polish: Pozytywizm [pɔ.zɘˈtɘ.vizm] ) was a social, literary and philosophical movement that became dominant in late-19th-century partitioned...

referring to aspects of legal systems. It encompasses theories such as legal positivism and legal realism. Normative jurisprudence is concerned with evaluative...

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...

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

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

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

A universal history is a work aiming at the presentation of a history of all of mankind as a whole. Universal historians try to identify connections and...

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

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

Foundationalism / Coherentism Internalism and externalism Logical positivism Legal positivism Meta-ethics Moral realism Quinean naturalism Normative ethics...

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...

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...

conceptual field in the nineteenth century. Social science was influenced by positivism, focusing on knowledge based on actual positive sense experience and avoiding...

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

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

philosophy of – LaVeyan Satanism – Law, philosophy of – Lawsonomy – Legal positivism – Legal realism – Legalism (Chinese philosophy) – Leninism – Liberalism...

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

frequently implies a critique of the more extreme expressions of logical positivism and has been used by social scientists such as Friedrich Hayek, philosophers...

Popper's criticisms of logical positivism "devastating". In his view, Popper's most important argument against logical positivism is that, while it claimed...

Scientism Declinations Legal positivism Logical positivism Positivist school Postpositivism Sociological positivism Machian positivism (empirio-criticism) Rankean...

demarcation that are also used by modern philosophers of science. Logical positivism, formulated during the 1920s, is the idea that only statements about matters...

design that included the national motto "Ordem e Progresso", influenced by positivism. 15 November is now Republic Day, a national holiday. The early republican...