Positivism in Germany is thought to have developed in response to Hegelian and neo-Hegelian metaphysics, which was a famous philosophy in Germany.

" It retains an important place in the history of Analytic philosophy as the antecedent of contemporary philosophies, such as Constructive empiricism, Positivism, and Postpositivism.

In his philosophy be was mainly concerned to defend Christianity against modern Positivism.

* Positivism, in philosophy, the name for theories which aim to be based on facts alone, eschewing metaphysics and religion

The five elements of Savarkar's philosophy were Utilitarianism, Rationalism and Positivism, Humanism and Universalism, Pragmatism and Realism.

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Polish " Positivism " drew its name from the philosophy of Auguste Comte.

In a 1931 paper with Albert Blumberg, " Logical Positivism: A New European Movement ," he argued for logical positivism to be renamed " logical empiricism " based upon certain realist differences between contemporary philosophy of science and the older positivist movement.

As a leader of the philosophy of Legal Positivism, Hart argues that the decisions in this case should be based on existing law, which was silent on the issue at the time.

In contrast to Positivism, which held that statements are meaningless if they cannot be verified or falsified, Popper claimed that falsifiability is merely a special case of the more general notion of criticizability, even though he admitted that empirical refutation is one of the most effective methods by which theories can be criticized.

:" We arrive at a deeper reason than has hitherto been disclosed for the difference between our position with reference to Christianity, and that which has been assumed by Radicalism and by Positivism.

In his 1932-33 contribution to Erkenntnis, " Positivism and Realism ", Schlick offered one of the most illuminating definitions of positivism as every view " which denies the possibility of metaphysics " ( Schlick, p. 260 ).

Positivism, the heir to both Auguste Comte and Max Weber in the quest to make purportedly value-free judgments, failed to justify its own existence, which would require a value judgment.

Positivism / falsification are also rejected due to the observation that it is highly plausible that a mechanism will exist but either a ) go unactivated, b ) be activated, but not perceived, or c ) be activated, but counteracted by other mechanisms, which results in its having unpredictable effects.

Positivism, according to Solovyov, only validates the phenomenon of an object, denying the intuitive reality which people experience as part of their consciousness.

Ayer's Language, Truth and Logic, an introduction to Logical Positivism, and both the Richards – Ogden book and the Ayer book would, in turn, influence Alec King and Martin Ketley in the writing of their book The Control of Language, which appeared in 1939.

It should not be identified too closely with Positivism, however, since whilst the latter advocates the use of controlled situations like experiments as sources of scientific information, naturalism insists that social processes should only be studied in their natural setting.

This argument can be seen as directly related to Wittgenstein's Theory of Language, drawing a parallel between Postmodernism and late Logical Positivism that is united in critique of foundationalism.

Positivism simply means that law is something that is " posited ": laws are validly made in accordance with socially accepted rules.

It is a foundation of the modern notion of Positivism, modern quantitative statistical analysis, and business decision-making.

If Positivism is understood as an explanation of what law is, Formalism can be said to be a positivist explanation of how law and legal systems operate.

The book emerged from a set of lectures that Hart began to deliver in 1952, and it is presaged by his Holmes lecture, Positivism and the Separation of Law and Morals delivered at Harvard Law School.

In addition to the branches ' current various meanings of Institutionalism, there is also an academic skeptism that, though European Institutionalism was originally derived from national response to people's demands on politico-economic changes especially on their polity or apparatus, as Positivism and Phenomenalism did for example, New Institutionalism rather implicates top-down approach and neglects to match each developmental meaning to its timely event so that the relatively casual interpretation mode carreis retrospective effect on historical paths of each idealization.

The book emerged from a set of lectures that Hart began to deliver in 1952, and it is presaged by his Holmes lecture, Positivism and the Separation of Law and Morals delivered at Harvard Law School.

Positivism emphasized the use of the scientific method through observation to empirically test hypotheses explaining and predicting what, where, why, how, and when phenomena occurred.

One of the leading Polish philosophers of Positivism ; novelist and short-story writer, Bolesław Prus ( The Outpost, The Doll, The New Woman ), advised his compatriots that Poland's place in the world would be determined by the sum of her contributions made to the world's scientific, technological, economic and cultural progress.

It was a result of strong aesthetic opposition to the ideas of Positivism.

Positivism has sometimes met with caricature as a breed of naive empiricism, yet the word has a rich history of applications stretching from Comte to the work of the Vienna Circle and beyond.

Ba ' ath party co-founders Aflaq and Salah al-Bitar both studied at the Sorbonne in the early 1930s when Positivism was still the dominant ideology among France ’ s academic elite.

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Positivism replaced Romanticism as the leading intellectual, social and literary trend.

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Positivism has also been espoused by ' technocrats ' who believe in the inevitability of social progress through science and technology.

His View of Positivism would therefore set out to define, in more detail, the empirical goals of sociological method.