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Definition of Positivism
1. Noun. The form of empiricism that bases all knowledge on perceptual experience (not on intuition or revelation).
Generic synonyms: Empiricism, Empiricist Philosophy, Sensationalism
Specialized synonyms: Comtism
Derivative terms: Logical Positivist, Positivist, Positivistic
2. Noun. A quality or state characterized by certainty or acceptance or affirmation and dogmatic assertiveness.
Generic synonyms: Quality
Specialized synonyms: Assertiveness, Self-assertiveness
Antonyms: Negativeness, Negativity
Derivative terms: Positive, Positive, Positive, Positive
Definition of Positivism
1. 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.
Definition of Positivism
1. Noun. (philosophy) A doctrine that states that the only authentic knowledge is scientific knowledge, and that such knowledge can only come from positive affirmation of theories through strict scientific method, refusing every form of metaphysics. ¹
2. Noun. Practical spirit, sense of reality, concreteness. ¹
3. Noun. (legal) A school of thought in jurisprudence in which the law is seen as separated from moral values, i.e. the law is ''posited'' by lawmakers (humans). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Positivism
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Positivism
Literary usage of Positivism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of Philosophy by Frank Thilly (1914)
"positivism AND ITS OPPONENTS IN FRANCE so far as possible, the personality to
sociability ; everything must Ъе related to humanity, love is the central ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"We shall give a brief historical sketch of positivism, an exposition of its
fundamental principles, and a criticism of them. I. HISTORY OF positivism. ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"We shall give a brief historical sketch of positivism, an exposition of its ...
The principles of positivism as a philosophical system were accepted and ..."
4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"We shall give a brief historical sketch of positivism, an exposition of its ...
Emile Littré (qy) accepted positivism in its scientific aspect: for him ..."
5. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1892)
"His positivism, accordingly, differs tato c<e!o from the positivism presented in
Tlif Menisi. His philosophy, like that of Comte, is so far as I understand ..."
6. System of Positive Polity by Auguste Comte (1877)
"In theory, positivism prefers Synthetic Spiritualism to ... In practice, it
prefers re- positivism will relieve the chiefs from a ..."
7. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1873)
"AUGUSTE COMTE AND positivism. Cours de Philosophic Positive. ... positivism, as
a system of thought, originated in a raison d'etre outside of itself. ..."
8. The History of English Rationalism in the Nineteenth Century by Alfred William Benn (1906)
"In that sense the epithet would be not inaptly applied to the founder of positivism
himself; but, seeing that as much might be said of nearly all the ..."
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