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Positivism vs Objectivism - What's the difference?

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In philosophy terms the difference between positivism and objectivism

is that positivism is 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 while objectivism is one of several doctrines that holds that all of reality is objective and exists outside of the mind.

positivism

English

(wikipedia positivism) (legal positivism)

Noun

  • (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).

    • Antonyms

    * (in philosophy) antipositivism

    Derived terms

    * logical positivism * legal positivism * neopositivism

    objectivism

    English

    (wikipedia objectivism)

    Noun

  • The state of being objective.
  • Moral objectivism.
  • (philosophy) One of several doctrines that holds that all of reality is objective and exists outside of the mind.
  • The specific objectivist philosophy created by novelist , endorsing productive achievement and logical reasoning.

    • Antonyms

    * subjectivism