Group 1

Prince Gerald Dulay Precious Flores

Jhoy Evangelista De Vera Lhyzel Guino Cathlyn
Jordan Nahum Laude Herrera Digay Juinio Jamae
Ayen Alcantara C. Labing
Dumayas Dolor Laoyan
Johnjay Marpiga Bongay Christine Faith
Jade Naruzen Besmonte Justin Quiatzon Baguio
Mark Joseph Alexis Jean Rain Ballaran
Julius Garcia Ma Francis Jane Guillera
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The Group Assigned to
Present Positivism;
Introduction
Discussion
Conclusion
Lesson/s Learned
 “The sacred formula of
positivism: love as a
principle, the order as a
foundation, and progress
as a goal.”
Auguste Comte
Opening Question
 Introduction
Brief Insights About Positivism
Auguste Compte/Isidore Marie Auguste Francois
Xavier Compte
Anatol Rapop or
Based on dbyobservablephe
represent the assumption that truth is completely
omenaand
scientifically verified
e n
facts
More on science positivism is what one can really
be positive
Construed more broadly as a way of looking at the
world from the vantage point of the scien ific
method t
The
. positiv sts consciously avoid metaphysical
 i
speculations, such as questions regarding the nature
of God, freedom, and the immortality of the soul.
 Discussion
Positivism i sa theory tha theology
t e imper ect modes
and metaphysics were pr viously f of
knowledge and that positive knowledge is base don natura phenomena
l and their properti s and
e
s as verified
certain or extremely by empirical
confident sciences.
in something. Positivism
A Christian is is
who also defined
certain asisthe
there stateisofanbeing
a God
examp e of positivism. In addition, only those objects or events that can be experienced directly
relationship
objectively true and that can be discovered and understood through a scientific
l
method.
should be the object of scientific inquiry. However, there are facts about the human world that are
speculation because it relies on observations and experiments
for
tell something
According is true, itCompte,
to Auguste must bePositivism
supporteddoes
by a not
document
believeor
in
evidence.
evidence. Positivists such as Auguste Compte believed that in order to
describe what is obvious, positivism is based on the assumption that
observab e phenomena ancie tifically v rif ed facts complete y
While Anatol Rapoport on the other hand explains that positivists seek to
requires visib e evidence to be true.
 l d s n e i l
represent the truth. Science is the foundation of positivism because it
l
 Discussion
In addition, evidence from historical
events has always been necessary for
reconstructing the past. This means that
historycannotbewrittenwithout
evidence . The term "mater als"
i used to
describe of
"proofs" historical evidenceo ishistorical
the occurrence "signs" or
events f
.
scientific methods help researchers to process objectively and establish the facts. An
Moreover, positivism is through observation, experimentation, and testing, all these
constitute the fundamental steps in the
observation, a hypothesis, a prediction, an experiment, and an analysis of the findings
process.
 Conclusion
To sum things up, historical or documentary positivism
is the belief in historiography that historians should seek
the objective truth of the past by allowing historical
sources to "speak for themselves" without further
interpretation. Positivism says that social phenomena are
only be studied using the method of natural
Thescien
science. ificmethodemphasizesempirical
t
observationsreal
considered andconcrete
claims that the onlyare
knowledge things
thosethat
thatcan
canbe
be observed using the five senses.
Positivism is more than just fantasy or fiction. It
contains
in evidence
the past. thatonly
It was not proves or by
done attests to what
people who occurred
lived at
base their research on descript ons of people or their
emotions instead, they reflect on some theories and
apply them to the subject of the
research.
the time, but it is a documented event. Positivists never
i
;
 Lesson/s Learned
Here.
References/Sources
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yCpTe9e-MI
What is the difference between positivism and post
colonialism?
What is the scientific method and how does it
work?
The Historian and his Evidence. An Essay - GRIN
Thank You for
listening
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