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Positivism is a philosophy that denies our knowledge of the real and affirms our ignorance of the apparent. Its longest exponent is comte, its broadest mill and its thickest spencer.

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Positivism is that whereby love is the principle, the order is the foundation, and progress is the goal.

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Positivism is a philosophy that denies our knowledge of reality and affirms our ignorance of the apparent

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Positivism is a scientific approach to philosophy in which all knowledge is founded upon facts.

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Positivism is a theory of knowledge according to which the only kind of sound knowledge available to human kind is that if science grounded in observation.

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