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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 pos·i·tiv·ism /ˈpɑzətɪˌvɪzəm, ˈpɑztɪ-/
 實證哲學,實證論,實證主義

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Pos·i·tiv·ism n. A system of philosophy originated by M. Auguste Comte, which deals only with positives. It excludes from philosophy everything but the natural phenomena or properties of knowable things, together with their invariable relations of coexistence and succession, as occurring in time and space. Such relations are denominated laws, which are to be discovered by observation, experiment, and comparison. This philosophy holds all inquiry into causes, both efficient and final, to be useless and unprofitable.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 positivism
      n 1: the form of empiricism that bases all knowledge on
           perceptual experience (not on intuition or revelation)
           [syn: logical positivism]
      2: a quality or state characterized by certainty or acceptance
         or affirmation [syn: positivity] [ant: negativism]