Logical positivism

I am going to begin this paper by stating that I do, in fact, side with Motley. However, because I want to be an attorney, and I enjoy debate, I feel I must explain how exactly I came to this conclusion, as it was not an easy one. Originally, I was torn between Motley and Anderson. I agreed with both of them in that a sender and receiver is necessary to facilitate communication, thus eliminating Clevenger; however, I struggled with the differentiation they drew in regards to intentionality.…

Community A are proposing to follow a version Dworkin’s theory of ‘law as integrity’. Attempting to give value to the community and the individual. However this can be criticised because interpretation of the law becomes superhuman, relying on the assumption there is coherence in the communities previous decisions. This is something the community should consider when proceeding. The Community also places importance on the court developing legal principles over time through common law. This can…

Topic One In the Concept of Law, Hart attempts to depict one of the differing viewpoints to his own beliefs of positivism; this one being Austen’s of which he calls the theory of coercive orders. Essentially, the theory of coercive orders is when a political superior commands a political inferior with the backing of a threat. In what Hart details as a valid legal system, the criminal statute may be construed as a threat, however, the important difference between that and coercive orders is that…

Ronald Dworkin was a liberalist who believed that there was a correct judicial decision in each case, which is based on principle, not a literalist interpretation of the law. This idea is in direct contradiction to the formalist viewpoint offered by Hart; consequently, Dworkin was focused on the application of the law with the goal of ensuring that a legislatively passed law was indeed a good law. He was also interested in finding the rights of the parties of interest. This is more of a…

Where Can We Put Phenomenology, Logical Positivism, and Critical Theory in The Urban Planning Context? This short paper addresses the evolution of social inquiry in the planning actions. To shed some light on the social inquiry subject and its development in the planning field Logical Positivism, Phenomenology, and Critical Theory approaches will be examined in detail. These three perspectives will be compared and contrasted in each other to obtain similarities and differences in what is seen as…

Logical Positivism would lend itself better to the study of education greater than Symbolic Interactionalism because of the philosophical tenets of Logical positivism. To further support this claim, Singh (2016), states that Logical Positivism reflects the following aims of education (1) Education should emphasize upon developing conceptual clarity. The analyses of concepts…

a liberal philosopher. His theory is positivism, Positivism is based off of the scientific method. Positivism consists of three stages, Theological, Metaphysical, and Positive. I agree with Auguste Comte rather than the other founders of sociology because positivism is the pure, positive facts rather than speculation. In other words, pure scientific thinking and observing. The more something can be explained the more believable the argument will be. Positivism contains more science than…

investigation. All of these assumptions underlie the basic principles of the post-positivist approach. Below, I discuss the fundamental assumptions underlying the ontology and epistemology of post-positivism. I also include a brief discussion of the approaches’ benefits for the production of social scientific…

brain, but how it reacts in different social situations. Positivism has a history of its' own. While Comte developed this method, he did not get to see how it was used to influence others in future generations. “During the twentieth century positivism was a dominant philosophy used to make sense of natural and social science. Many scholars made sense of their work using the tenets of empiricism and derivative philosophies, such as positivism, behaviorism, pragmatism and instrumentalism.…

their own discipline. Since science has specific criteria to evaluate credibility, this does not always factor in the human component that is often seen in nursing practice. There was a focus on logical positivism which helped to form theory development to have a status as a science. Logical positivism however, is considered a hard science. “Nurse scholars and leaders in the area of knowledge development encountered considerable difficulty with this philosophy in that significant amount of…