196). This is despite the stance of Popper (1959), originally writing in 1934, who emphasised that hypotheses can only be refuted with certainty; they can only be considered true as long as they are not proven to be false. It is best, nevertheless, to take the approach that hypotheses ...
This article frames logical positivism as an intentionally constructed, radically oppositional project situated in a distinctive intellectual, social, and political context. Then positivist geography is briefly described, suggesting that while 'positivist geography' may be a useful piece of intellectual ...
Hart, in the introduction to The Concept of Law, described his task as an endeavor in “descriptive sociology”; Hart 1994, vi. 2 In one of the earliest and clearest expressions of natural law, Lactantius wrote: “There exists one true law, one right reason—conformable to nature, ...