Positivism
WordNet
noun
(1) A quality or state characterized by certainty or acceptance or affirmation and dogmatic assertiveness
(2) The form of empiricism that bases all knowledge on perceptual experience (not on intuition or revelation)
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Etymology
From the french word positivisme, derived from positif (positive).
Noun
- 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.
- Practical spirit, sense of reality, concreteness.
- 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).