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Positivism vs Postmodern - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between positivism and postmodern

is that 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 while postmodern is a postmodernist.

As an adjective postmodern is

of, relating to, or having the characteristics of postmodernism, especially as represented in art, architecture, literature, science, or philosophy that reacts against an earlier modernism.

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

    postmodern

    English

    (Postmodernism)

    Alternative forms

    * post-modern

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of, relating to, or having the characteristics of postmodernism, especially as represented in art, architecture, literature, science, or philosophy that reacts against an earlier modernism.
  • * 1937 , John Q. Stewart, "An Astronomer Looks at the Modern Epoch," The Scientific Monthly , vol. 44, no. 5 (May), page 402,
    • The nearer is a fact to the temporary limits of knoweldge, the more implicated becomes this regression and the more blurred ought to be statement of fact. Bridgman of Harvard recently has emphasized this conclusion, but his postmodern position has as yet made small impression.
  • * 2001 , Kristen Renwick Monroe, "Paradigm Shift: From Rational Choice to Perspective," International Political Science Review , vol. 22, no. 2. (Apr), page 167 n22,
    • What I am objecting to is that aspect of postmodern thought that rejects the idea of any objective reality.
  • * 2005 , Janet R. Barrett, "Planning for Understanding: A Reconceptualized View of the Music Curriculum," Music Educators Journal , vol. 91, no. 4. (Mar), page 25,
    • For an illustration of the differences between the traditional, positivist curriculum and the more postmodern reconceptualized curriculum, see Hanley and Montgomery.

    Derived terms

    * postmodernism * postmodernist * postpostmodern * prepostmodern

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A postmodernist.
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    • , passage=Trajal Harrell frames his program notes for “Twenty Looks or Paris Is Burning at the Judson Church (S)” with the potentially academic question, “What would have happened in 1963 if someone from the ball scene in Harlem had come downtown to perform alongside the early postmoderns at Judson Church?” }}

    References

    * * * "postmodern" in Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary (Cambridge University Press, 2007) * Oxford English Dictionary , second edition (1989) ----