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Categories: Positivism, Empiricism, 20th century in philosophy, Articles with short description, Philosophy of social science

positivism logical positivism Positive science Basic statement Criticism of positivism

The form of empiricism that bases all knowledge on perceptual experience (not on intuition or revelation) WordNet 3.0

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The form of empiricism that bases all knowledge on perceptual experience (not on intuition or revelation) WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

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. Wikipedia

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

Philosophy which states that the only authentic knowledge is scientific knowledge. Positivism was central to the foundation of academic sociology. Wikipedia Disambiguation

A school of philosophy that combines empiricism with a version of rationalism Wikipedia Disambiguation

Philosophy of science based on the view that information derived from scientific observation is the exclusive source of all authoritative knowledge Wikidata

Assertion that only statements verifiable through empirical observation are meaningful Wikidata

A 20th-century school of philosophy which held that all knowledge is based on logical inferences from empirical observations. Wiktionary

School of philiosophy. Wiktionary (translation)

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. Wiktionary

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