IN a most timely article entitled "Positivism" (Mind, July 1944), Prof. W. T. Stace throws great light on the doctrinaire character of the so-called logical positivists. After making a useful ...

The doctrine of legal positivism may seem to us to be an irrelevant, abstruse philosophical exercise confined to the ivory towers of academia. The reality, however, is that it makes a huge impact ...

Reid, who, like many American philosophers, uses a rather elaborate and top-heavy nomenclature, in his article "Analytic Statements in Semiosis" strikes hard at the root of logical positivism by ...

In the heat of the quantum revolution, Bohr’s “Copenhagen interpretation” was accused of positivism, the philosophy that valid knowledge of the physical world is derived only from direct experience.

What came to be accepted unanimously was the prism of positivism from which the text is read and interpreted. Since the Ulema in the modern age have embraced modern tools, positivism is deeply ...

The rise and fall of logical positivism is the most spectacular story of 20 th century philosophy. Logical positivism was wildly successful, and some of its key ideas became widely accepted as ...

He paints a daunting picture but what stands out is his optimism, or what he prefers to call positivism. "Optimism is like being a spectator at a football match, hoping your team somehow wins," he ...

But when he bought and sold slaves, Jefferson rejected the natural law for himself, in favor of what lawyers and judges call positivism. Natural law teaches that our rights come from our humanity.