POSITIVISM

positivity, positiveness, positivism

(noun) a quality or state characterized by certainty or acceptance or affirmation and dogmatic assertiveness

positivism, logical positivism

(noun) the form of empiricism that bases all knowledge on perceptual experience (not on intuition or revelation)

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Noun

positivism (countable and uncountable, plural positivisms)

(philosophy) 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.

(legal) A school of thought in jurisprudence in which the law is seen as separated from moral values; i.e. the law is posited by lawmakers (humans); legal positivism.

Antonyms

• (in philosophy): antipositivism

Source: Wiktionary

Pos"i*tiv*ism, n.

Definition: A system of philosophy originated by M. Auguste Comte, which deals only with positives. It excludes from philosophy everything but the natural phenomena or properties of knowable things, together with their invariable relations of coexistence and succession, as occurring in time and space. Such relations are denominated laws, which are to be discovered by observation, experiment, and comparison. This philosophy holds all inquiry into causes, both efficient and final, to be useless and unprofitable.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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