Philosophy and Humanities
- Affirmative, in linguistics, is a non-negated expression, as opposed to negative. See grammatical polarity
- Affirmative (policy debate), the team which affirms the resolution
- A positive image, in photography, is one in which the value (lightness–darkness) correlates positively with that in the scene depicted
- Negative and positive rights, concerning the moral obligation of a person to do something for/to someone
- Positive economics, in economics, about predictions of behavior of economic actors, as opposed to the normative aspect
- Positive law is man-made law (statutes) in contrast with natural law (derived from deities or morality)
- Positive liberty, the opportunity and ability to act to fulfill one's own potential
- Positive (linguistics), the form of an adjective or adverb on which comparative and superlative are formed with suffixes or the use of more or less
- Positive psychology, a branch of psychology
- Positive science, for a general usage in humanities and social sciences referring to either
- something being value-free, the opposite of normative
- the act of something being described in terms of facts alone
- Positive statement, in economics, a (possibly incorrect) factual statement
- Positivism, in philosophy, the name for theories which aim to be based on facts alone, eschewing metaphysics and religion
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Famous quotes containing the words philosophy and, philosophy and/or humanities:
“When a bachelor of philosophy from the Antilles refuses to apply for certification as a teacher on the grounds of his color I say that philosophy has never saved anyone. When someone else strives and strains to prove to me that black men are as intelligent as white men I say that intelligence has never saved anyone: and that is true, for, if philosophy and intelligence are invoked to proclaim the equality of men, they have also been employed to justify the extermination of men.”
—Frantz Fanon (1925–1961)
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