Positivism is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for POSITIVISM in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the doctrine that that which is not observable is not knowable
• a humanistic religious system founded on positivism.
• a philosophical system recognizing only that which can be scientifically verified or which is capable of logical or mathematical proof, and therefore rejecting metaphysics and theism.
• the theory that laws and their operation derive validity from the fact of having been enacted by authority or of deriving logically from existing decisions, rather than from any moral considerations (e.g. that a rule is unjust).
• 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.
• the form of empiricism that bases all knowledge on perceptual experience (not on intuition or revelation)
• a quality or state characterized by certainty or acceptance or affirmation and dogmatic assertiveness
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a theory that theology and metaphysics are earlier imperfect modes of knowledge and that positive knowledge is based on natural phenomena and their properties and relations as verified by the empirical sciences; logical positivism

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Words that contain POSITIVISM

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How to use POSITIVISM in a sentence

• The Positivism of Comte, like the old myth-worship, sets up for its deity human nature idealized, adorned with genius and virtue.
• In her own belief she came nearest to the positivism of Comte, although he was not so great an oracle to her as he was to Mr.
• Subsequently he inclined to positivism, which he had previously opposed, and among the representatives of which we may mention, further, R.
• She found her philosophical theories confirmed by his, and both together labored for the propagation of that positivism in which they so heartily believed.
• Her enthusiastic acceptance of positivism in that spirit in which it is presented by Lewes, is apparent throughout all her work.
• As the poet of positivism, she will long delight those in sympathy with her teachings.
• She did not write her positivism in broad characters on her books.
• Her views in this direction, as in many others, were substantially those presented by Lewes in his many works bearing on positivism.
• In positivism, as developed and modified by Lewes, she found that reconciliation.
• That she always deliberately set about the task of introducing her positivism into the substance of her novels is not to be supposed.
• That she did teach positivism is unfortunately true, so far as her literary touch and expression is concerned.
• In consequence, our own time swings to the other extreme, and cannot have too much of evolution and positivism.
• It gives a glow and a consecration to her work, and makes her as great a prophet as positivism is capable of creating.
• Those who cannot accept her agnosticism and her positivism may learn much from her faith in man and from her enthusiasm for humanity.
• The only religion of any importance which has ever been consciously constructed by a psychologist is the Positivism of Auguste Comte.
• Resolutely they united the forces of the nation, which at first opposed them from ignorance, and broke down the selfishness and dogmatic positivism of the popular representatives.
• He was, in fact, fast losing all his old habits of positivism.
• He says he was fourteen years laboring to resist the charge of Positivism made against the class of scientific men to which he belongs.
• Positivism, as a subordinate system, is the work of Comte alone.
• The Christian world is now in the transitory stage of metaphysics, which, by and by, will lead to the golden age of Positivism.
• Indeed, he often said that while intellectually Positivism was in the air, as a social doctrine it was too far in advance of the present age to become popular.
• Their young criticism was sent into the world to make straight the path of a new positivism, as now, in its old age, it is invoked to keep open the door to superstition.
• True, the old positivism remained in the background.
• Another matter of interest is the place of morality in Positivism as a religion.
• Incompetence in philosophy, and in all branches of science except mathematics, is the well-known mental characteristic of the founder of positivism.
• Mill for Positivism in no other sense than that in which he claimed it for himself in his own latest writings.
• Yet I would not pretend that it is only on this side of his connection with the founder and principles of Positivism, that we dwell on the memory of Mr.

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