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Phenomenology vs Positivism - What's the difference?

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In philosophy terms the difference between phenomenology and positivism

is that phenomenology is a movement based on this, originated about 1905 by Edmund Husserl while 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.

phenomenology

English

(wikipedia phenomenology)

Alternative forms

* (obsolete)

Noun

  • (philosophy) A philosophy based on the intuitive experience of phenomena, and on the premise that reality consists of objects and events as consciously perceived by conscious beings.
  • (philosophy) A movement based on this, originated about 1905 by .

    • Derived terms

    * heterophenomenology * phenomenological * phenomenologically * phenomenological reduction * phenomenologist * postphenomenology * postphenomenological English words suffixed with -ology

    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