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 Translation for 'positivism' from English to Swedish
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Translation for 'positivism' from English to Swedish

positivism
positivism {u}
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Usage Examples English
  • The variety of positivism that remains dominant today is termed "instrumental positivism".
  • Scientific realism is developed largely as a reaction to logical positivism.
  • One important debate is within legal positivism. One school is sometimes called "exclusive legal positivism" and is associated with the view that the legal validity of a norm can never depend on its moral correctness.
  • Included, from 2003, as Volume 11 in the Continuum edition, "Logical Positivism and Existentialism" is a collection of essays which (barring a first chapter rewritten for a 1972 republishing) had all been published in Copleston's "Contemporary Philosophy" (1956).
  • Rondon first encountered positivism in 1885 as a student at the Military Academy in Rio de Janeiro, where it was taught as a form of spreading republicanism.

  • Hart's discussion of Austin's legal positivism, the separation of law and morality, and the open-texture of legal rules can be seen in his April 1957 presentation of the Oliver Wendell Holmes Lecture at Harvard Law School titled, "Positivism and the Separation of Law and Morals"."
  • Logical positivism attempts to combine positivism with a version of a-priorism.
  • Constructive empiricism opposes scientific realism, logical positivism (or logical empiricism) and instrumentalism.
  • In his 1946 essay "Logical Positivism and Pragmatism" Lewis set out both his concept of sense meaning, and his thesis that valuation is a form of empirical cognition.
  • Because the ultimate source of law now comes from the sovereign, and the sovereign's decisions need not be grounded in morality, legal positivism is born.

  • In international relations theory, post-positivism refers to theories of international relations which epistemologically reject positivism, the idea that the empiricist observation of the natural sciences can be applied to the social sciences.
  • Putnam also alleged that positivism was actually a form of metaphysical idealism by its rejecting scientific theory's ability to garner knowledge about nature's unobservable aspects.
  • When the Archbishop of York thought this 'new philosophy' was based on Auguste Comte's positivism, Huxley corrected him: "Comte's philosophy just Catholicism minus Christianity" (Huxley 1893 vol 1 of Collected Essays "Methods & Results" 156).
  • "Legal Positivism" ("Il Positivismo Giuridico") is a book by the Italian jurist Norberto Bobbio about one of the ontological elements of "foundations of law" — the "jusphilosophical school" called "juspositivism" or "legal positivism".
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