Accounts Quote by 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

POSITIVISM- A philosophy that denies our knowledge of the Real and affirms our ignorance of the Apparent. Its longest exponent is Comte, its broadest…

— Ambrose Bierce

I am not a positivist. Positivism states that what cannot be observed does not exist. This conception is scientifically indefensible, for it is impossible…

— Albert Einstein

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

Such evidence is not the only kind which produces belief; though positivism maintains that it is the only kind which ought to produce so…

— Chauncey Wright

“The trajectory of this tradition, from positivism to the current variety of postpositivist philosophies of science, has reflected the pressure of a complex reality…

— Helena Sheehan

“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

What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all…

— Christopher Lasch

Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?

— Theodore Bikel

There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

— Hippocrates

Knowledge is observation and is given to those who would look.

— L. Ron Hubbard