positivism
51legal positivism — A school of jurisprudence whose advocates believe that the only legitimate sources of law are those written rules, regulations, and principles that have been expressly enacted, adopted, or recognized by a governmental entity or political… …
52Logical positivism — a philosophy (of science), that originated in the Vienna Circle in the 1920s, which holds that philosophy should aspire to the same sort of rigor as science. Philosophy should provide strict criteria for judging sentences true, false and… …
53Legal positivism — philosophical position that the only authentic knowledge is scientific knowledge. It is an approach to the philosophy of science, deriving from Enlightenment thinkers like Pierre Simon Laplace (and many others). See also logical positivism. •… …
54Logical positivism — logical positivism …
55logical positivism — See positivism ; Vienna Circle …
56neo-positivism — A movement in early twentieth century American sociology which blended together the three themes of quantification, behaviourism , and positivist epistemology. Its principal proponents were Franklin H. Giddings and George A. Lundberg , although… …
57logical positivism — (also logical empiricism) noun a form of positivism which considers that the only meaningful philosophical problems are those which can be solved by logical analysis …
58post-positivism — postpozityvizmas statusas T sritis Politika apibrėžtis Metateorinis požiūris, atmetantis kertines pozityvizmo prielaidas, kad galima galutinai ir objektyviai nustatyti teiginių teisingumą, ir teigiantis, kad pozityvistinis objektyvaus pažinimo… …
59logical positivism — n. a movement in philosophy which tests all statements by reference to sense experience or the structure of language and is concerned with the unification of the sciences through a common logical language: also called logical empiricism …
60therapeutic positivism — noun : positivism that undertakes to remedy the ambiguities, paradoxes, and perplexities of traditional philosophical and especially metaphysical problems by employing logical analysis to disclose the linguistic confusions that give rise to them …
