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positivist

/ˈpɒzətɪvɪst/noun

उच्चारण पॉज़टिविस्ट

प्रत्यक्षवादी

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noun
  1. 1

    [C] philosophy

    a person who believes in positivism, the theory that knowledge comes only from facts that can be observed and proved by experience and science

    प्रत्यक्षवादी

    • Early positivists believed society could be studied like physics.
adjective
  1. 1

    philosophy

    connected with positivism

    प्रत्यक्षवादी, प्रत्यक्षवाद से संबंधित

    • a positivist approach to history
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General knowledge

The French thinker Auguste Comte, often called the father of sociology, founded positivism.

फ़्रांसीसी विचारक Auguste Comte, जिन्हें अक्सर समाजशास्त्र का जनक कहा जाता है, ने positivism की स्थापना की।