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positivism
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positivism,
n the notion that all desired information can be obtained through data that are physically measurable.
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00 Hardcover BD171 Some new and some reprinted, but most revised from lectures at a January 2007 conference at the University of Otago, 14 essays provide a cross-section of current thinking by living, breathing metaphysicians, declared by some positivists to have been extinct decades ago.
From truth to reality; new essays in logic and metaphysics by Reference & Research Book News
Yet, interpretivists must also engage with the positivists if their cause is to be incorporated into HRM practice.
The drunkard's search: looking for 'HRM' in all the wrong places by McKenna, Steve; Singh, Parbudyal; Richardson, Jules / Management International Review
In "My Intellectual Path" Berlin recalls his opposition to the logical positivists and their mania for "verifiability" of philosophical propositions.
Notes on Karl Popper by Brantingham, Philip / Modern Age
 
 
 
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