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After Comte,
positivist schools arose in logic, psychology, economics, historiography, and
other fields of thought. Generally,
positivists attempted to...
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stimuli rather than as
observable entities in the real world,
logical positivists took all
scientific knowledge to be only
sensory experience. Further...
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positivist calendar was a
calendar reform proposal by
Auguste Comte in 1849.
Revising the
earlier work of
Marco Mastrofini, or an even
earlier proposal...
- philosophy,
social sciences, and
various models of
scientific inquiry.
While positivists emphasize independence between the
researcher and the
researched person...
- same
basic principles at its core.
Simply put,
positivists see
sociology as a science,
while anti-
positivists do not. The
antipositivist tradition continued...
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Wittgenstein (Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus), the
Vienna Circle,
logical positivists, and
Willard Van
Orman Quine. In the West,
inquiry into
language stretches...
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Legal positivists who
argue against the
incorporation of
moral values to
explain law's
validity are
labeled exclusive (or hard)
legal positivists. Joseph...
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positivism further by
separating law not only from morality, as the
early positivists did, but also from
empirical facts,
introducing the
concept of a norm...
- metaphysics. (Here "logical empiricist" is a
synonym for "logical
positivist".) The
logical positivists agreed with Kant that we have
knowledge of mathematical...
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important figures in its
history include Franz Brentano, the
logical positivists (particularly
Rudolf Carnap), the
ordinary language philosophers, W....
