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Émile Durkheim placed himself in the [[positivist]] [[tradition]], [[meaning]] that he [[thought]] of his study of society as ...zed statements about social life can be made, he is not interested in hard positivist claims, but instead in linkages and sequences, in historical [[narrative]]s

...duces the uncertainty in the [[value]]. Note that in this view, unlike the positivist representational theory, all measurements are uncertain, so instead of assi

In the [[positivist]] sociology of [[Emile Durkheim]], a social fact is an abstraction external

.... Bucke was for a number of years an enthusiast for [[Auguste Comte]]'s [[positivist]] philosophy. He also enjoyed reading poetry.

...ms of fish and the physiology of human nerves. Freud learned most of his [[positivist]], [[empiricist]] scientific assumptions from Brücke and the faculty of th

...que. Throughout his life, he was neither materialist, purely empiricist or positivist, nor idealist, rationalist or intellectualist in his epistemology. Rather,

...has been neither straightforward nor simple. [[Logical positivism|Logical Positivist]], [[empiricism|empiricist]], [[falsifiability|falsificationist]], and othe

Most scientists remain firmly committed to a positivist and reductionist epistemology in their approach to the study of consciousne