Concept

Postpositivism

Overview

metatheoretical stance that critiques and amends positivism, arguing that theories, hypotheses, background knowledge and values of the researcher can influence what is observed

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Philosophers who discussed Postpositivism

• Thomas Kuhn

Related ideas

• Falsifiability
• Auguste Comte
• Philosophy
• The Logic of Scientific Discovery
• Karl Popper
• Logical positivism
• Worldview
• Vienna Circle
• Paradigm shift
• Thomas Kuhn
• Social science
• Scientific method
• Positivism
• Justification (epistemology)
• The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
• Ian Hacking
• Value theory
• Verificationism
• Occam's razor
• Qualitative research
• Quantitative research
• Accuracy and precision
• Relativism
• Experiment

Place in the tradition

Part of Logical positivism.

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