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postpositivism  

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  • Postpositivism is used to refer to alternatives to the philosophy of positivism. Understood very broadly, it can mean something like “nonpositivism”—that is, any philosophy other than positivism, including, for example, critical theory, feminist philosophy, philosophical hermeneutics, interpretivism, and so on. [Source: Encyclopedia of Evaluation; Postpositivism]

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