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Positivism
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What's The Definition Of Positivism?
[n] a quality or state characterized by certainty or acceptance or affirmation
[n] the form of empiricism that bases all knowledge on perceptual experience (not on intuition or revelation) Synonyms | Synonyms for Positivism: logical positivism | positivity Related Terms | Find terms related to Positivism: animalism | atomism | behaviorism | bigotry | commonsense realism | dialectical materialism | dogmaticalness | dogmatism | down-to-earthness | earthiness | earthliness | empiricism | epiphenomenalism | freedom from illusion | hardheadedness | historical materialism | hylomorphism | hylotheism | hylozoism | infallibilism | lack of feelings | Marxism | materialism | matter-of-factness | mechanism | natural realism | naturalism | new realism | opinionatedness | peremptoriness | physicalism | physicism | positive philosophy | positiveness | practicality | practical-mindedness | practicalness | pragmaticism | pragmatism | rationality | realism | reasonableness | representative realism | saneness | scientism | secularism | self-opinionatedness | sensibleness | sober-mindedness | substantialism | temporality | unidealism | unromanticalness | unsentimentality | worldliness See Also | Comtism | empiricism | empiricist philosophy | positiveness | quality | sensationalism Positivism In Webster's Dictionary \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.
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