A General View of Positivism (Discours sur l'ensemble du positivisme) is a 1844 book by the French philosopher Auguste Comte, first published in English...

Positivism is a philosophical school that holds that all genuine knowledge is either true by definition or positive—meaning a posteriori facts derived...

Legal positivism is a school of thought of philosophy of law and jurisprudence which holds that law is constructed from social facts, without regards to...

Logical positivism, later called logical empiricism, and both of which together are also known as neopositivism, is a movement whose central thesis is...

that a holistic view of the universe explains its processes and their evolution more effectively than a reductive view. Professional philosophers of science...

Positive Philosophy [1830–1842] and A General View of Positivism (1844). Though Comte is generally regarded as the "Father of Sociology", the discipline was...

Nutshell is winner of the Aventis Prizes for Science Books 2002.[citation needed] Roger Penrose Kip Thorne Physical cosmology Positivism List of textbooks on...

developed among researchers dissatisfied with post-positivism, the theories of which they considered too general and ill-suited to reflect the nuance and variability...

that a theory is empirically adequate expresses the epistemological component. Constructive empiricism opposes scientific realism, logical positivism (or...

sociological positivism, an epistemological approach outlined in the Course in Positive Philosophy (1830–1842), later included in A General View of Positivism (1848)...