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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