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POSITIVIST PARADIGM - Personal Pages
POSITIVISTPARADIGMP ositivism emerged as a philosophical PARADIGM in the19th century with Auguste Comte s rejection of meta-physics and his assertion that only scientific knowledgecan reveal the truth about reality. It was later formallyestablished as the dominant scientific method in theearly part of the 20th century by members of the ViennaCircle, including Gustav Bergmann, Rudolf Carnap,Herbert Feigl, Philipp Frank, Karl Menger, OttoNeurath, and Moritz Vienna Circle sought to construct a unified sci-entific world-conceptionthat rejects the use of philoso-phy as a means of learning about the true nature ofreality. Unfortunately, it failed as a coherent philosophyof science because of a critical inconsistency betweenits theory of reality and its theory of knowledge. Positivism adopted David Hume s theory of thenature of reality ( , philosophical ontology). Humebelieved that reality consists of atomistic (micro-level)and independent events.
theory-based predictions) are consistent with the infor-mation we are able to obtain using our senses. Positivist research methodology (methodological individualism) emphasizes micro-level experimentation in a lablike environment that eliminates the complexity of the exter-nal world (e.g., social, psychological, and economic
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