It questioned processualism's appeals to scientific positivism and impartiality, and emphasized the importance of a more self-critical theoretical reflexivity.
en.wikipedia.org According to logical positivism, the truths of logic and mathematics are tautologies, and those of science are empirically verifiable.
en.wikipedia.org As such, one's ethical prime directives are "action", "freedom", and "decision", thus, existentialism opposes rationalism and positivism.
en.wikipedia.org Approaches include positivism, interpretivism, rational choice theory, behavioralism, structuralism, post-structuralism, realism, institutionalism, and pluralism.
en.wikipedia.org Positivism has also come under fire on religious and philosophical grounds, whose proponents state that truth begins in sense experience, but does not end there.
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