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positivism
noun(pos-i-tiv-ism)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
positivism
noun(pos-i-tiv-ism)logical positivism
positivism
noun(pos-i-tiv-ism)the quality or state of being positive
positivism
noun(pos-i-tiv-ism)a 20th century philosophical movement holding that all meaningful statements are either analytic or conclusively verifiable or at least confirmable by observation and experiment and that metaphysical theories are therefore strictly meaningless —called also logical empiricism