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noun - the form of empiricism that bases all knowledge on perceptual experience (not on intuition or revelation)
noun - a quality or state characterized by certainty or acceptance or affirmation and dogmatic assertiveness
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| Philosophy recognising only the logically provable |
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| Aug 27 2005 The Times - Concise |
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| the form of empiricism that bases all knowledge on perceptual experience (not on intuition or revelation) |
| a quality or state characterized by certainty or acceptance or affirmation |
| the belief that knowledge comes from things that can be experienced with the senses or proved by logic |
| the quality of having a positive attitude or message: |
| Philosophy A doctrine contending that sense perceptions are the only admissible basis of human knowledge and precise thought. |
| Philosophy The application of this doctrine in logic, epistemology, and ethics. |
| Philosophy The system of Auguste Comte designed to supersede theology and metaphysics and depending on a hierarchy of the sciences, beginning with mathematics and culminating in sociology. |
| Philosophy Any of several doctrines or viewpoints, often similar to Comte's, that stress attention to actual practice over consideration of what is ideal: "Positivism became the 'scientific' base for authoritarian politics, especially in Mexico and Brazil ( Raymond Carr). |
| The state or quality of being positive. |
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Positivism is a philosophical theory stating that certain ("positive") knowledge is based on natural phenomena and their properties and relations. Thus, information derived from sensory experience, interpreted through reason and logic, forms the exclusive source of all certain knowledge. Positivism holds that valid knowledge (certitude or truth) is found only in this a posteriori knowledge. * Verified data (positive facts) received from the senses are known as empirical evidence; thus positivism is based on empiricism.Positivism also holds that society, like the physical world, operates according to general laws. Introspective and intuitive knowledge is rejected, as are metaphysics and theology because metaphysical and theological claims cannot be verified by sense experience. Although the positivist approach has been a recurrent theme in the history of western thought, the modern sense of the approach was formulated by the philosopher Auguste Comte in the early 19th century. Comte argued that, much as the physical world operates according to gravity and other absolute laws, so does society, and further developed positivism into a Religion of Humanity. |