With a lot of red meat and explosions galore, the zombie apocalypse returned to AMC last night bigger than ever. The Season 5 debut of The Walking Dead pulled in 17.3 million total viewers on Sunday at 9 PM with 11 million among adults 18-49.
Positivism was a method for studying society proposed by Auguste Comte, a French philosopher who founded the study of sociology. Comte's bias was against metaphysics, a philosophy based largely on speculation about the nature of things.
In its strongest original formulation, positivism could be thought of as a set of five principles: 1  The unity of the scientific method â i.e., the logic of inquiry is the same across all sciences (social and natural). 2  The aim of science is to explain and predict. 3  Scientific knowledge is testable.