Positivists

There were post-positivists as far back as the 1960s and those political scientists who were more statistical and quantitative also go back to the 50s and 60s.

He did excellent work attacking the positivists for dismissing minds in favor of experiments.

Although the Vienna Circle's logical positivists appreciated the Tractatus, they argued that the last few passages, including Proposition 7, are confused.

It is consistent with Dworkin's view—in contrast with the views of legal positivists or legal realists—that no-one in a society may know what its laws are, because no-one may know the best justification for its practices.

John Austin, The Providence of Jurisprudence Determined (1831) Contemporary legal positivists have long abandoned this view, and have criticised its oversimplification, H. L. A. Hart particularly.

Legal positivists main Positivism simply means that law is something that is "posited": laws are validly made in accordance with socially accepted rules.

Like the logical positivists, Quine evinced little interest in the philosophical canon: only once did he teach a course in the history of philosophy, on Hume.

Logical positivists culled from Ludwig Wittgenstein's early philosophy of language the verifiability principle or criterion of meaningfulness.

Modern legal positivists consider international law as a unified system of rules that emanates from the states' will.

Some philosophers used to contend that positivism was the theory that there is "no necessary connection" between law and morality; but influential contemporary positivists, including Joseph Raz, John Gardner, and Leslie Green, reject that view.

Thus, the phenomenological language that most positivists were still emphasizing was to be replaced by the language of mathematical physics.

Unity of science Logical positivists were generally committed to " Unified Science ", and sought a common language or, in Neurath's phrase, a "universal slang" whereby which all scientific propositions could be expressed.