| The book opens with a discussion of positivism and empiricism, positions which regrettably are still dominant within social and natural science. |
| Following World War II, American philosophers largely focused on the problems raised by analytic philosophy and logical positivism. |
| In the harsh light of a rising logical positivism, they appeared too bluntly subjective to remain science's cutting edge. |
| Legal positivism is a conceptual theory emphasizing the conventional nature of law. |
| It relies on a rudimentary and thus unstated metaphysics, in much the same way as empiricism and positivism. |
| In the early twentieth century, logical positivism narrowed the scope of meaning in a way that made belief in God subjective by definition. |
