Usually means: Science-based, empirical, objective knowledge pursuit.
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  1. positivism: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. positivism: Merriam-Webster
  3. positivism: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. positivism: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. positivism: Collins English Dictionary
  6. positivism: Vocabulary.com
  7. Positivism, positivism: Wordnik
  8. positivism: Wiktionary
  9. positivism: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. positivism: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. positivism: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. positivism: Dictionary.com
  13. Positivism (disambiguation), Positivism (international relations), Positivism (philosophy), Positivism (sociology), Positivism: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Positivism: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. positivism: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. positivism: Rhymezone
  17. Positivism: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. positivism: FreeDictionary.org
  19. positivism: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  20. positivism: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. positivism: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. positivism: Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names
  2. The Ism Book (No longer online)
  3. Literary Criticism (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. positivism: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. Positivism (philosophy), Positivism: Legal dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Positivism (philosophy), positivism: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Positivism (philosophy), positivism: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Positivism: Catholic Encyclopedia
  2. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)
  3. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

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noun:  (philosophy) A doctrine that states that the only authentic knowledge is scientific knowledge, and that such knowledge can only come from positive affirmation of theories through strict scientific method, refusing every form of metaphysics.
noun:  (law) A school of thought in jurisprudence in which the law is seen as separated from moral values; i.e. the law is posited by lawmakers (humans).

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