#meaning a posteriori facts derived by reason and logic from sensory experience.
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when the americans are talking about something having an "ideology" of positive feelings and call it positivism girl that word is already taken and it doesn't mean what you think it does
#Positivism is an empiricist philosophical theory that holds that all genuine knowledge is either true by definition or positive#meaning a posteriori facts derived by reason and logic from sensory experience.#Other ways of knowing such as theology metaphysics intuition or introspection are rejected or considered meaningless#here copypasted the first wikipedia paragraph for u#yes we learnt this in high school and it was important bc this was the ideology of our miliary dictatorship.#but also like. this is a very important philosophical component of imperialism!#which... yeah i guess they would keep this from you#woofy posts
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