Positivism vs Dialectic - What's the difference?
positivism | dialectic |
(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).
Any formal system of reasoning that arrives at a truth by the exchange of logical arguments.
A contradiction of ideas that serves as the determining factor in their interaction.
As nouns the difference between positivism and dialectic
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 dialectic is any formal system of reasoning that arrives at a truth by the exchange of logical arguments.As an adjective dialectic is
dialectical.positivism
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(wikipedia positivism) (legal positivism)Noun
Antonyms
* (in philosophy) antipositivismDerived terms
* logical positivism * legal positivism * neopositivismdialectic
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Alternative forms
* dialectick (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- This situation created the inner dialectic of American history.
