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positivism

/poz-i-tuh-viz-uhm/US // ˈpɒz ɪ təˌvɪz əm //UK // (ˈpɒzɪtɪˌvɪzəm) //

实证主义

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the state or quality of being positive; definiteness; assurance.
    • : a philosophical system founded by Auguste Comte, concerned with positive facts and phenomena, and excluding speculation upon ultimate causes or origins.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as inoptimism
as incertainty
Synonyms
as insanguineness
as insanguinity

Examples

  • Hegelianism had closed the eyes of human understanding; Positivism had mutilated and crippled its activities.

  • He was an absolute positivist; his positivism did not make him self-assertive nor peremptory; on the contrary, it oppressed him.

  • One of them is that on which we have just commented, the assimilation between Positivism and Fetishism.

  • The Pontiff of Positivism informs us what problem, in his opinion, should be selected before all others for this united pursuit.

  • Let us turn now to positivism, and consider what is its position.