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Positivism

Philosophy of science based on the view that information derived from scientific observation is the exclusive source of all authoritative knowledge

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  • Cours de philosophie positive / Par M. Auguste Comte.

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    Positivist philosophy : from Hume to the Vienna Circle / Leszek Kolakowski ; translated [from the Polish] by Norbert Guterman.

    Kołakowski, Leszek. | Date: 1972
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    Lombroso y la escuela positivista italiana / estudio preliminar de José Luis Peset y Mariano Peset.

    Lombroso, Cesare, 1835-1909. | Date: 1975
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    Lo splendore della ragione : storia della psichiatria ligure nell'epoca del positivismo / E. Maura, P.F. Peloso.

    Maura, E. (Emilio) | Date: [1996], ©1996
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    Illustrations of positivism : a selection of articles from the "Positivist review" in science, philosophy, religion, and politics / by John Henry Bridges.

    Bridges, John Henry, 1832-1906. | Date: 1915
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    Auguste Comte and positivism / by John Stuart Mill.

    Mill John Stuart, 1806-1873. | Date: 1865

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