positivism

1. Philosophy A doctrine contending that sense perceptions are the only admissible basis of human knowledge and precise thought.

2. Philosophy The application of this doctrine in logic, epistemology, and ethics.

3. Philosophy The system of Auguste Comte designed to supersede theology and metaphysics and depending on a hierarchy of the sciences, beginning with mathematics and culminating in sociology.

4. The state or quality of being positive.

5. A theory that theology and metaphysics are earlier imperfect modes of knowledge and that knowledge is based on natural phenomena and their properties and relations as verified by the empirical sciences.

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