| NOUN | cognition | logical positivism, positivism | the form of empiricism that bases all knowledge on perceptual experience (not on intuition or revelation) |
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| Meaning | The form of empiricism that bases all knowledge on perceptual experience (not on intuition or revelation). | |
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| Synonym | positivism | |
| Narrower | Comtism | Auguste Comte's positivistic philosophy that metaphysics and theology should be replaced by a hierarchy of sciences from mathematics at the base to sociology at the top |
| Broader | empiricism, empiricist philosophy, sensationalism | (philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge derives from experience |
| Spanish | positivismo | |
| Catalan | positivisme | |
| Nouns | logical positivist | someone who maintains that any statement that cannot be verified empirically is meaningless |
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