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814:The Course in Positive Philosophy
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830:Critical History of Philosophy
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374:Rankean historical positivism
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854:The Logic of Modern Physics
671:Deductive-nomological model
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878:The Universe in a Nutshell
862:Language, Truth, and Logic
846:The Analysis of Sensations
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520:Problem of induction
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906:Alexander Bogdanov
782:Positivismusstreit
577:Post-behavioralism
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393:Principal concepts
349:Logical positivism
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218:Theory and history
191:White, L. (2003).
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400:Consilience
323:Rationalism
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505:Humanities
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318:Empiricism
295:Positivism
142:References
109:reflective
101:praxeology
21:praxeology
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1158:Phronesis
1146:Knowledge
1130:Max Weber
950:Criticism
698:Sociology
636:Modernism
614:pluralism
599:anarchism
495:Historism
415:Induction
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