The other school of thought is sometimes called positivism, sometimes called legal realism. |
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Following World War II, American philosophers largely focused on the problems raised by analytic philosophy and logical positivism. |
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These women rejected their contemporaries' scientific rationalism and positivism in favour of a profound respect for local knowledges. |
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In his writings Karl Popper questioned the positivism and teleological historicism of the modern age. |
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In the harsh light of a rising logical positivism, they appeared too bluntly subjective to remain science's cutting edge. |
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In the early twentieth century, logical positivism narrowed the scope of meaning in a way that made belief in God subjective by definition. |
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Deutsch blames logical positivism, the idea that science should concern itself only with objects that can be observed. |
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The paternalism of scientific positivism coincides directly with capitalist culture's feminizing of amateurism. |
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In the twentieth century, the epistemological framework that gained ascendancy within the philosophy of science is that of positivism. |
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The book opens with a discussion of positivism and empiricism, positions which regrettably are still dominant within social and natural science. |
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The neo-realists distilled the essence of realist thought and then laced it with a large dose of scientific positivism. |
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In fact, the branch that he refers to as econ-art can be seen as following the recognised scientific methodology of positivism. |
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It relies on a rudimentary and thus unstated metaphysics, in much the same way as empiricism and positivism. |
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Legal positivism is a conceptual theory emphasizing the conventional nature of law. |
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All too often we see positivism written about as if it is a substantive theory of human behavior, which it is not. |
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Between these two theories of law, legal positivism is the more persuasive legal theory for many people. |
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It drove home to me the sense of optimism and positivism that is around in New Zealand at the moment. |
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This decision was based on natural law principles, rather than on the legal positivism espoused by the Supreme Court judges in the X case. |
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The group developed the philosophy of logical positivism, investigating scientific language and scientific methodology. |
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This defense was rejected, and natural law theorists proclaimed a victory over logical positivism. |
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Many contemporary philosophers see the ultimate triumph of atomism as a victory for realism over positivism. |
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The presiding judge was accused of positivism, ethnocentrism and various other isms. |
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In other words, it is not always clear whether they are inveighing against the application of a general natural scientific approach or of positivism in particular. |
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There was thus an affinity between logical positivism and logicism. |
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The latter is after all a stern critic of positivism and scientism. |
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This goes with the idea of exclusivity of legal orders, which is a key feature of legal positivism. |
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Few still cling to a nineteenth-century positivism, but few will go so far as to concede that all history is fiction. |
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Mrs. Quilicot is a model of determination, positivism and dedication, to her own family and to the community. |
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Reality is what we see, and if our attitudinal prism can be shifted, we can invest our lives with renewed energy and positivism. |
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The theory of legal positivism labels as law, the norm that is validated according to some precise formal criteria. |
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Still alive in the Orient even today, it faded in the West from the 13th century with the coming of causality, conceptuality and positivism. |
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The legal system then operates from within a resolute positivism and a nineteenth-century form of historical objectivism. |
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In Canada, including Quebec, the legal system is based on legal positivism. |
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Similarly, the emphasis on the translation of concepts into measures is symptomatic of the principle of phenomenalism that is also a feature of positivism. |
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As they have been realised, the dreams themselves have assumed a peculiar character of sobriety, of the spirit of positivism, and beyond that, of boredom. |
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His philosophical experience in Vienna was somewhat limited by his uncertain knowledge of German, but he knew enough to pick up the basic tenets of logical positivism. |
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I am convinced that the low expectations of the citizenry are rooted, in part, in the way logical positivism has vastly exaggerated the role of the expert. |
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This is a common method in the philosophy of logical positivism. |
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As a philosopher she reacted to existentialism and logical positivism with a deep belief that philosophy should be about freedom and morality and love and God. |
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Less forgivably, he often wants to run on about logical positivism. |
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The year 1940 was an exciting one for Quine at Harvard for in that year both Carnap and Tarski visited Harvard and the three debated logical positivism. |
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As an historical matter, positivism arose in opposition to classical natural law theory, according to which there are necessary moral constraints on the content of law. |
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In the later sections, Melissa Lane on early responses to scientific positivism, Peter Dews on post-modernism and Bhikhu Parekh on non-western political thought, stand out. |
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Legal positivism requires only that it be in virtue of its facticity rather than its meritoriousness that something is law, and that we can describe that facticity without assessing its merits. |
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So much of their work and so many of their ideas are shaped by notions of modernity, enlightenment, rationality, and progress that were guided by the tradition of positivism. |
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Juridical positivism would be a sufficient explanation. |
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Also engaged in a fight against positivism was Lukacs himself in his most important monograph, Historial Consciousness. |
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He was educated at Eton College and Oxford University, after which he studied the philosophy of logical positivism at the University of Vienna. |
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Working in the Hegelian tradition, Marx rejected Comtean sociological positivism in attempt to develop a science of society. |
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His opposition to positivism, which held that it is the theory most likely to be true that one should prefer, here becomes very apparent. |
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Another philosophical basis for a lot of early socialism was the emergence of positivism during the European Enlightenment. |
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Chinese law expert Peerenboom compares Han Fei against the accepted standards of legal positivism and concluded that he is a legal positivist. |
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Legal positivism grounds law in social practice. |
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And logical positivism followed Hume's lead. |
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Thus, Maritain clearly rejects legal positivism. |
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He seeks, in other words, a tighter-fitting positivism. |
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Endurance and faith, positivism despite all the negativity, quick yet wise decision making... were all leadership skills I had the opportunity to further develop through my participation. |
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I would like to inject a little positivism into this House. |
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From 1957 to 1963 he published Clamor, a three-volume collection of poems in which a sad awareness of the evanescence and limitations of life replaces the uncomplicated positivism of Cantico. |
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America would be in better shape if banks had listened to the killjoys who warned that house prices would not rise for ever. The prattling pedlars of positivism deserve to be mocked. |
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An appeal to the latter was once considered self-evident, but the tide of positivism in contemporary legal theory requires the restatement of this important axiom. |
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So, once more, when we search below the negations and repudiations of the frontier we come upon a germinal positivism and affirmativism. |
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The world supposedly made transparent and comprehensible by rationalism, positivism, scientific progress and technological development is rendered once again opaque and mysterious. |
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In Italy, on the other hand, the Neo-Hegelianism of the 20th century took the form of a spiritualistic reaction to the spread of positivism that had followed upon the unification of Italy. |
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These definitions are in the style of logical positivism, logical empiricism, and the thesis of operationism. |
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In the twentieth century, physicalism has emerged out of positivism. |
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One school is sometimes called exclusive legal positivism, and it is associated with the view that the legal validity of a norm can never depend on its moral correctness. |
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I cannot conceive what atheism, or skepticism, or positivism could do for me now, with their negations, and endless and contradictory perhapses, and perhapses, and perhapses. |
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