Positivism
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title:
Positivism
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Positivism is a philosophical school that holds that all genuine knowledge is either true by definition or positive –meaning a posteriori facts derived by reason and logic from sensory experience. Other ways of knowing, such as intuition, introspection, or religious faith, are rejected or considered meaningless. Although the positivist approach has been a recurrent theme in the history of western thought, modern positivism was first articulated in the early 19th century by Auguste Comte. His sch
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Empiricist philosophical theory
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positivism
date created:
2005-10-09T21:56:28Z
date modified:
2024-09-03T05:10:18Z
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