Definitions for: Positivism

[n] a quality or state characterized by certainty or acceptance or affirmation
[n] the form of empiricism that bases all knowledge on perceptual experience (not on intuition or revelation)

Webster (1913) Definition: Pos"i*tiv*ism, n.
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.

Synonyms: logical positivism, positivity

Antonyms: negativism, negativity

See Also: Comtism, empiricism, empiricist philosophy, positiveness, quality, sensationalism

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