Positivism
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Positivism refers to a set of epistemological perspectives and philosophies of science which hold that the scientific method is the best approach to uncovering the processes by which both physical and human events occur. The concept was developed in the early 19th century by the philosopher and founding sociologist, Auguste Comte. Irrationalism and aestheticism were philosophical movements which formed as a cultural reaction against positivism in the early 20th century.
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See also
- In sociology
- Antipositivism
- Quantitative research
- Qualitative research
- Middle range theory (sociology)
- Philosophy of social science
- Social evolutionism
- In philosophy
- Logical positivism
- Postpositivism
- Analytic philosophy
- A. J. Ayer
- Bertrand Russell
- Gödel's incompleteness theorems
- Vladimir Solovyov
- Regional histories
- Other areas
- Pejorative treatment
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