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Another group of methodological doctrines is composed of those which are based on the tradition of empiricism. Let us start with the analysis of positivism. A positivist will be conceived as someone who claims (epi-stemological) phenomenalism: the necessary condition for a sentence to describe phenomena is to remain in a meaning-relation to observational sentences.
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Nowak, L. (1980). Idealization and Positivism. In: The Structure of Idealization. Synthese Library, vol 139. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-7651-2_4
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