positivism
positivism is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.A system of philosophy originated by M. Auguste Comte, which deals only with positives. It excludes from philosophy everything but the natural phenomena or properties of knowable things, together with their invariable relations of coexistence and succession, as occurring in time and space. Such relations are denominated laws, which are to be discovered by observation, experiment, and comparison. This philosophy holds all inquiry into causes, both efficient and final, to be useless and unprofitable.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- agnostic
- agnosticism
- alien
- antichristian
- antichristianity
- atheism
- atheist
- atheistic
- belief
- bout
- carnal
- dechristianize
- deism
- deist
- deistical
- devoutless
- disbelief
- disbelieve
- doubt
- earthly
- faith
- faithless
- fort
- freethinker
- freethinking
- gentile
- giaour
- godless
- graceless
- heathen
- hylotheism
- incredulity
- incredulous
- incredulousness
- indevotion
- indevout
- infidel
- infidelity
- irreligion
- irreligious
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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