Empirical vs Positivism - What's the difference?
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Pertaining to or based on experience.
* H. Spencer
Pertaining to, derived from, or testable by observations made using the physical senses or using instruments which extend the senses.
(philosophy of science) Verifiable by means of scientific experimentation.
(philosophy) A doctrine that states that the only authentic knowledge is scientific knowledge, and that such knowledge can only come from positive affirmation of theories through strict scientific method, refusing every form of metaphysics.
Practical spirit, sense of reality, concreteness.
(legal) A school of thought in jurisprudence in which the law is seen as separated from moral values, the law is posited by lawmakers (humans).
As an adjective empirical
is pertaining to or based on experience.As a noun positivism is
(philosophy) a doctrine that states that the only authentic knowledge is scientific knowledge, and that such knowledge can only come from positive affirmation of theories through strict scientific method, refusing every form of metaphysics.empirical
English
Adjective
(-)- The village carpenter lays out his work by empirical rules learnt in his apprenticeship.