Author

Publication

1848 - L. Mathias [etc.], Paris, France

Language

French

Word Count

99,750 words, Guess

Page Count

399 pages

Identifiers

Classifications

  • LCCB2225 1848

Description

Positivism is a philosophy of science based on the view that information derived from sensory experience, logical and mathematical treatments is the exclusive source of all authoritative knowledge, that there is valid knowledge (truth) only in scientific knowledge. Verified data received from the senses is known as empirical evidence. This view, when applied to the social as to the natural sciences, holds that society operates according to general laws like the physical world. Introspective and intuitive knowledge is rejected.

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  • Discours sur l'ensemble du positivisme: ou, Exposition sommaire de la doctrine philosophique et sociale propre à grande république occidentale, composeé des cinq populations avanceé, française, italienne, germanique, britannique, et espagnole, toujours solidaires depuis Charlemagne.L. Mathias [etc.]1848-01-01
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