He knows his empiricism from his logical positivism, and as you'll hear, computers found a way into his philosophy.

他从他的逻辑实证主义中了解他的经验主义，你将会听到，计算机找到了进入他的哲学的方法。

The majority was committed to the positivistic modeling that we just mentioned.

大多数人坚持我们刚才提到的实证主义建模方法。

If the habits of thought favoured by physical science do but sink deep enough, and no vast calamity come to check mankind in its advance to material contentment, the age of true positivism may arise.

如果物理科学所的思维习确实足够深，并且没有巨大的灾难来阻止人类向物质满足的进步，那真正的实证主义时代可能会出现。

By age and by education he belonged to the stout Positivist tradition, and his habit of thought had been formed in the days of the epic struggle between physics and metaphysics.

就年龄和教育而言，他属于坚定的实证主义传统，他的思维习是在物理学与形而上学之间史诗般的斗争时代形成的。

While positivist sociology is more interested in whether a person acts a certain way – something you can see as an outside observer – interpretative sociology asks: Why this behavior?

虽然实证主义社会学更感兴趣的是一个人是否以某种方式行事——你可以作一个外部观察者看到的东西——解释社会学会问：会有这种行？

Like I said, I brought up in this thoroughly rational, logical, positivist atmosphere of Oxford, and I went on to carry on in that vein at Cambridge.

就像我说的，我在牛津那种完全理性的、逻辑的、实证主义的氛围中成长，后来在剑桥也继续沿着这条路走下去。

It can't make up its mind whether it is a polemic about how America has gone to hell or a more standard history anchored in empiricism.

它无法决定自己是想成一篇关于美国如何堕落的 polemic，还是一部更标准的、基于实证主义的历史着作。

But we're getting a little far afield, because I only wanted to give that example of Dust Bowl empiricism.

但我们有点离题了，因我只是想举个关于尘碗实证主义的例子。

Empiricist Fatma Tanis reports the cuts come as part of a widespread reduction at several federal health agencies.

实证主义者法蒂玛·塔尼斯报告称，这些削减是联邦多个卫生机构普遍削减的一部分。

But the problem the logical positivists faced was whether to consider scientific statements meaningful.

但逻辑实证主义者面临的问题是，是否认科学陈述有意义。

Linguistics is a branch of psychology, and specially of the positivistic brand of psychology known as Behaviorism, which is based on the belief that human beings cannot know anything they have not experienced.

语言学是心理学的一个分支，特别是被称行主义的实证主义心理学分支，其基础是人类无法知道任何他们没有经历过的事情。

Now, whether you’re using it to explore the natural world or the social world, the scientific method is rooted in the philosophy known as positivism.

现在，无论你是用它来探索自然世界还是社会世界， 科学方法都植根于被称实证主义的哲学。

Logical positivists did not answer this question in any formal way.

逻辑实证主义者没有以任何正式的方式回答这个问题。

Which brings us to the first of our three types of sociological inquiry: Positivist sociology, or the study of society based on systematic observations of social behavior.

这将我们带到了三种社会学调查中的第一种：实证主义社会学，或基于对社会行的系统观察的社会研究。

Unlike the positivists he did not reject the statements of metaphysics outright.

与实证主义者不同，他并没有完全拒绝形而上学的陈述。

Now, you might be wondering where the " positive" in " positivist" comes into play.

现在，您可能想知道“实证主义者”中的“积极”在何处发挥作用。

18-2LOGICAL POSITIVISM While Russell championed the cause of analytic philosophy in England, across the English Channel a handful of mathematicians, scientists, and philosophers formed a group in Vienna in the 1920s, known as the Vienna Circle.

18-2逻辑实证主义虽然罗素在英国倡导分析哲学事业，但 1920 年代，少数数学家、科学家和哲学家在英吉利海峡对岸在维也纳成立了一个团体，被称维也纳圈。

We discussed positivist sociology and how sociologists use empirical evidence to explore questions about the social world.

我们讨论了实证主义社会学以及社会学家如何使用经验证据来探索有关社会世界的问题。

Being oriented chiefly toward science, the logical positivists assumed that only language that referred to physical objects and their interrelationships could have cognitive meaning.

由于主要面向科学，逻辑实证主义者认只有提及物理对象及其相互关系的语言才具有认知意义。

But yet another problem with positivist sociology is that not all social facts can be applied to all people, in all time periods.

但实证主义社会学的另一个问题是，并非所有社会事实都适用于所有时期的所有人。