POSITIVIST STANCE
Charles François (2004). POSITIVIST STANCE, International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics, 2(2): 2594.
| Collection | International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics |
|---|---|
| Year | 2004 |
| Vol. (num.) | 2(2) |
| ID | ◀ 2594 ▶ |
| Object type | Epistemology, ontology or semantics |
- “A philosophical position characterized by a readiness to concede primacy to the given world as known through experimental evidence” (R. RODRIGUEZ ULLOA, Glossary, 1999)
The positivist stance dominates all classical physical sciences and also in part biology and its specialized disciplines.
It should anyhow not be forgotten that:
- Our experimental evidence is necessarily filtered by our perceptive system, itself coordinated by our nervous system.
- The experiences that we register or perform are conditioned by the previous education of our perceptions which thus become “tainted” (M. MERLEAU PONTY, 1945)
- Any scientific experiment is pre-oriented by some theoretical views that are supposed to be submitted toconfirmation or refutation (POPPER)