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Showing 1 to 20 of 138 for “"Positivism"”.
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Ritual and religion: Responses to positivism
… out the central features of Vienna Circle positivism and looks at what the leading members of the Circle had to say about magic, mysticism, the miraculous, prayer, and immortality. The author concludes that the Circle's commitment to a problematic theory of meaning results in a distorted, …
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The Comte connection : George Eliot, positivism and poetry
… the relationship between the poetry and Comtean Positivism is an essential preparation for adequate critical assessment. After a brief exploration of the critical disinheritance, the question of George Eliot's Positivism is examined. The biographical facts are re-assembled to demonstrate that …
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Islamic Legal Positivism : Reforming Islamic Jurisprudence Using the Equity
Authoritative legal sources from which laws are derived are the decisive factors that determine the prosperity or failure of a nation. The ancient legal sources can be properly categorized as those sources most likely contribute to misery. In contrast, modern legal sources like public interest, …
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BEHAVIORISM AND LOGICAL POSITIVISM: A REVISED ACCOUNT OF THE ALLIANCE (VOLUMES I AND II)
… significant contact with proponents of logical positivism; but (2) their sympathies with logical positivism were quite limited and were restricted to those aspects of logical positivism which they had already arrived at independently; (3) the methods which they are alleged to have imported from …
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Parisian Social Studies: Positivism and the Novels of Balzac, Paul de Kock and Zola
… context of the proto-sociological movement of positivism. Existing criticism on panoramic literature typically views this movement as emerging from early-nineteenth-century urban upheaval. I focus here instead on early pre-sociological theory. Published concurrently with these panoramic texts …
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Tyranny on trial : the politics of natural law and legal positivism in the Federal Republic of Germany
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, 1997.
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The Independent Group's encounters with logical positivism and searches for unity in the 1951 Growth and Form Exhibition
This study analyzes the intellectual and historical milieu of the Independent Group. Its point of departure is Growth and Form, an exhibition of scientific imagery, largely conceived and designed by Richard Hamilton, and the book accompanying the exhibition, Aspects of Form, edited by Lancelot Law …
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A critical examination of Habermas' and Marcuse's attacks on positivism, with special reference to the implications of the attacks for sociology
The debate between positivists on the one hand, and anti-positivists such as Habermas and Marcuse on the other, about the possibility of an objective value-free social science seems to have reached an impasse: Positivists continue to assert that the facts and laws of social life are objective …
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The question of method in social science
… of the social sciences. A dominant view--positivism--argues that human behavior can be best explained by employing the methods of the natural sciences. Developed initially by the philosophers of the Enlightenment, positivism was popularized through the writings of Auguste Comte and John …
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The Grounding Of Effective Aristotelian Law
… explanation are natural law theory and legal positivism; however, this paper will build off the work of Donald Schroeder to show that neither theory is a tenable explanation for the grounding of Aristotelian law. Although Schroeder rejects natural law and positivism as appropriate …
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Digital Fabrication for Contemporary Material Specificity
The modernist model of “logical positivism” that emerged in the early-20th century Modernist movement placed the onus of design squarely within the material world. This movement attempted to replace the immaterial “metaphysical” approach to design and material with physically-provable absolute …
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The legal fact as a work of art : artificial intelligence and the pragmatics of legal interpretation
… approach is reflected most acutely in legal positivism. The position of the legal positivist is that of law as constitutive of facts. The fact is our description of relations in the world. We should see immediately that in understanding the fact we should understand how this fact is presented …
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Semiotic Analysis of Workforce Diversity
… studies diversity from a paradigm other than positivism and nominalism embedded in empiriometric models which are in no way equipped to understand the reality of diversity. Design/Methodology/Approach: Peirce opposed nominalism and positivism. Thus, this thesis adopts semiotics, effectively …
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Empire's Law: A Hartian Critique of the Potential of Fuller's and Radbruch's Theories to Address Legal Colonialism
… of legal colonialism into the natural law-positivism debate by analyzing the 2019 Huson case, an instance of legal colonialism writ small. In Chapter 2, I test the legality of Huson by applying Fuller’s eight principles to the Court’s decision. I conclude that, according to Fuller, Huson is …
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Sartre’s reshaping of political philosophy for post-revolutionary times
… between ethics and aesthetics that gave birth to positivism, which was on the road to challenge political philosophy in the twentieth century. I show that, at the very same time, Sartre was finding a solution to the challenges posed to political philosophy by criticising positivism thanks to his …
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Envisioning creative space
… to the historical and contemporary critique of positivism in the classical sciences, mainly due to the relation of origins of space conceptions to sciences.
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An ethnography of black collegiate sprinters: A formal model of cultural identity and the identity complex
… ethnography, which I have labeled ""experiential positivism"" (intensive participant observation to the point where the participant observer can at least hope to possess some of a real participant's cognitive understandings and intuitions by which the activity is ordered), can generate the …
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Towards a model for IS research methodology selection : the effect of epistemology choice on a consolidated research evaluation tool
… this by analysing the different epistemologies (positivism, interpretivism, and critical research) and then estimates the effect their respective selections will have on Information Systems research by measuring their impact on a consolidated measure created in this research.
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