*'Positivism is a philosophical theory asserting that genuine knowledge comes only from sensory experience and empirical evidence, not from abstract or metaphysical speculation...'* Created by Auguste Comte, it seeks to understand reality through what is observable, logical, and measurable. Which seems fine until you get into how it's gone wrong over time, like with [[Newtonian Physics]] or the acceptance of laws in science that are unproven, so as to make science appear to be more knowledgeable about the universe than it truly is. ## Sources: - [[Capra Course]] - [[@Auguste Comte]] - [[Positivism]] - [[Newtonian Physics|Newtonian Physics]] - [[Whitehead, Alfred North (1938) Modes of Thought]]