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Definition of Positivism

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  POSITIVISM   noun
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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The Devil's Dictionary
by Ambrose Bierce, 1911

Posterity
Posterity

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