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logical positivism
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logical positivism
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A philosophy asserting the primacy of observation in assessing the truth of statements of fact and holding that metaphysical and subjective arguments not based on observable data are meaningless. Also called logical empiricism.
logical positivism
n
(Philosophy) a philosophical theory that holds to be meaningful only those propositions that can be analysed by the tools of logic into elementary propositions that are either tautological or are empirically verifiable. It therefore rejects metaphysics, theology, and sometimes ethics as meaningless
logical positivism
positivism, def. 2.
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Noun1.logical positivism - the form of empiricism that bases all knowledge on perceptual experience (not on intuition or revelation)
positivism
empiricism, empiricist philosophy, sensationalism - (philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge derives from experience
Comtism - Auguste Comte's positivistic philosophy that metaphysics and theology should be replaced by a hierarchy of sciences from mathematics at the base to sociology at the top
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One of Nelson's most helpful (if brief) discussions is on the "Failure of Logical Positivism" and its replacement today with an operative neo-positivism that retains positivism's classic hostility toward religious modes of knowing while embracing more fulsome discussion of core assumptions and blending elements of classic empirical verificationism with broader methods for ascertaining scientific validity (Nelson, this issue).
Integration: defending it, describing it, doing it by Jones, Stanton L. / Journal of Psychology and Theology
In his opinion, historians moved by a neo-positivism will better preserve the richness of the past and the freedom of historical inquiry than historians motivated by ideologies of right and left, schemes of abstract quantification, and fashionable historical theories that intermittently sweep the ranks of professional and professorial history.
Guy Thuillier: "Paris will save nothing." by Amato, Joseph / Journal of Social History
 
 
 
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