👉 Positivism, a philosophical approach to knowledge, emphasizes objective reality and claims that all human actions are determined by natural laws or principles. Positivists believe in empirical evidence and reason as the primary means of understanding reality. They reject supernatural explanations for phenomena and focus on observation and experimentation to test hypotheses about the world around us. Positivism is often associated with Friedrich Nietzsche, who believed that "the only true philosophy is that which denies any objective existence."
