Deny Quote by Ambrose Bierce

Positivism is a theory of knowledge according to which the only kind of sound knowledge available to human kind is that if science grounded…

— Auguste Comte

Positivism stands or falls with the principle of scientism, that is that the meaning of knowledge is defined by what the sciences do and…

— Jurgen Habermas

The error in positivism is that it takes as its standard of truth the contingently given division of labor, that between the science and…

— Theodor Adorno

The self-styled practical man of affairs who pooh-poohs philosophy as a lot of windy notions is himself a pragmatist or a positivist, and a…

— Alan Watts

“Hume, Huxley, and other "immanent " psychologists, tried to identify the conception with a mere generalisation, so making no distinction between logical and psychological…

— Otto Weininger

“Pragmatism and subjectivism obscure the reality of the truth. They engage the mind, but they make it the servant of our desires and our…

— John Piper

“Fragmenting and colliding both hegemonic and oppositional codes, my goal is to reinscribe validity as a way that uses the antifoundational problematic to loosen…

— Patti Lather

“In the pragmatist, streetwise climate of advanced postmodern capitalism, with its scepticism of big pictures and grand narratives, its hard-nosed disenchantment with the metaphysical,…

— Terry Eagleton

“I do not have it in for relativism. In many respects I find it a fascinating, even attractive, alternative. It engenders epistemological humility, defeats…

— David L. Wolfe

I think it's very important to distinguish between objectivity - which tends to be open, flexible, skeptical of its own certainty and open to…

— W. J. T. Mitchell

Pragmatism ... reflects with almost disarming candor the spirit of the prevailing business culture, the very same attitude of 'being practical' as counter to…

— Max Horkheimer

An aphorism is an extreme synthesis of thesis and antithesis, theory and practice, it's a mixture of intuition and observation, hypothesis and illusions of…

— William C. Brown