What is positivization?

Answer 1

Positivism is a philosophical and ontological (what exists) position in which there can be something which is 'positive', 'truthful' or 'known'. It often espouses that there is an external reality which can be objectively studied.

An example of a positivist statement might be, 'trees have leaves'. A relativist might argue that some trees only have leaves some of the time, some trees have 'leaves' which can be known as other things and so on.

A deconstructionist might say that you cannot consider the tree without the rest of it, and where does a leaf begin and end? Is it not also composed of water, sunlight, air etc?

A phenomenologist would also add that as all we can speak from is our own experience, we do not know that the leaves we see are the same as another person's.

Looking at discourse we might ask what a leaf is? We created the words so that we could understand each others' concepts, but as Korzybsi said, 'The map is not the territory'- the words we speak are not the same as the thing itself, they're just what we use to describe them.

It is usually a safer bet to be a critical realist, who would say that we can all agree that there is something there which we can look at (and come up with relatively sturdy concepts around) but we each have our own experience of it.

All is well and everything goes well.There is nothing to regret.

Answer 2

When laws formally recognize certain rights.