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Anonymous Posted 12 years ago
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Ever since the antecedents of Positivism, namely, Plato’s Phaedrus 245a, Symposium 209; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre-Simon_Laplace’s (1749–1827) and Wilhelm Dilthey's (1833-1911) differentiating between the humanities and the natural science, positivism as being principle to the scientific method is a consequence of Auguste Comte's (1798-1857) criticising of the metaphysical and normative as being too speculative, emotive and romantic.

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You probably mean "principal" rather than "principle", but the whole sentence is so tortured that it is hard to be sure of anything. I think you need to look again at the overall structure.

— GPY

  • You probably mean "principal" rather than "principle", but the whole sentence is so tortured that it is hard to be sure of anything.
  • I think you need to look again at the overall structure.
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You probably mean "principal" rather than "principle", but the whole sentence is so tortured that it is hard to be sure of anything. I think you need to look again at the overall structure.
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AnonymousCould this be written better? 'As being'
Too many -ings and 'ss in general. And maybe too few sentences for all that information.

CJ
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