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Can Paradigm replace positive scientific methods?

Positivism rose as a philosophical paradigm in the 19th century with Auguste Comte's dismissal of
meta-physics and his statement that only scientific knowledge can uncover the truth about reality. It
was later formally settled as the overwhelming scientific method in the early part of the 20th
century by members of the Vienna Circle, who developed a bound, who established unified
scientific world-conception that rejects the utilization of philosophy as a scientific
method.Unfortunately, it fizzled as a rational philosophy of science due to a basic irregularity
between its hypothesis of "reality" and its hypothesis of "knowledge."
Positivism adopted David Hume's theory of the nature of reality expressing that reality comprises of
atomistic (micro level) and autonomous events that can be depicted through senses . Nonetheless,
positivism likewise adopted Ren Descartes' epistemology expressing that reason is the most ideal
approach to create knowledge about reality. His deductive technique infers that events are ordered
and interconnected, and hence the reality is ordered and deducible. This interior irregularity in the
end undermined the legitimacy of positivism. It exerted an essential impact on scientific practice in
the sociologies for a considerable length of time in the mid 20th century. This was particularly valid
in the common sciences where lab trials can firmly approximate the real world environment, thus
allowing for accurate predictions.
In the social sciences, in any case, human volition and instability make the laboratory experiment
less reliable. At last, its inner irregularity resulted in the abandonment of positivism in favor of
scientific approaches such as critical multiplism as a paradigm, which is based on the belief that no
one approach is ever sufficient for developing a valid understanding of a phenomenon.
Subsequently, Neither Paradigm occurring in alternating phases nor Positivism as crude scientific
method could lead to an ultimate understanding of reality and an efficient quest for truth.
Positivist Paradigm Concept
The positivist paradigm attests that genuine events can be watched experimentally and clarified
with intelligent (logical) investigation. The measure for assessing the legitimacy of a scientific
hypothesis is whether our knowledge claims are reliable with the data we can acquire utilizing our
senses. Positivist research methodology (methodological individualism) underlines micro level
experimentation in a lab-like environment that eliminates the complexity of the external world.
policies are then endorsed in light of conclusions inferred by means of the "scientific method".
Psychologists now realize that this yields results that have internal validity.
While the results obtained using experimental methods provide valuable insights into the nature of
reality, those results may lack external validity.
Conclusion
This brief examination of the way Paradigm and Positivism, as adopted constitutions in the
scientific world , functioned and fought from early days to the time being suggests how complex
and solid is the paradigm's relation to the truth and reality human quest, in which it appears and the
traditions in which they both participate, leading to the belief of dependance of Reality quest upon
both of them unseparated.

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