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Empiricism vs Positivism in Science by James Ray is a document available to read on EtoBox.

This document discusses empiricism and positivism in science. It outlines seven basic doctrines of empiricism: 1) the mind starts as a blank slate and acquires knowledge through experience, 2) knowledge claims must be testable by experience, 3) this rules out claims about unobservable entities, 4) scientific laws describe recurring patterns of experience, 5) explaining phenomena involves showing they are instances of scientific laws, 6) prediction and explanation are symmetrical, and 7) scientific objectivi

Author
James Ray
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