Positivist Dispute

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Philosophy

 

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Beatrice G

 

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February 25, 2015

 

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They believed that all statements could be reduced to a definitive mimetic, or that is to say, an actual reflection of human experience. But how can we measure experience? The answer according to a tenet of positivist theory is through empirical analysis, changing the observable into the verifiable. Emile Durkheim, a positivist from the late 18th Century, believed that the only way to measure science was by separating the individual from the State...
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Emile Durkheim, a positivist from the late 18th Century, believed that the only way to measure science was by separating the individual from the State. His work, "Suicide", established empiricism within sociology, which would describe phenomena strictly in sociological terms. He was only able to study suicide rates because, after the French Revolution, the French began taking records of all their people...
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