The Devil's Dictionary: Positivism

Updated May 14, 2020 | Infoplease Staff
by Ambrose Bierce
POSITIVE
POSTERITY

POSITIVISM

-n.

A philosophy that denies our knowledge of the Real and affirms our ignorance of the Apparent. Its longest exponent is Comte, its broadest Mill and its thickest Spencer.

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