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.
The roots of Positivism lie particularly with Empiricism, which works only with observable facts, seeing that beyond this is the realm of logic and mathematics. The basic principle of Positivism is that all factual knowledge is based on the positive information gained from observable experience, and that any ideas beyond this realm of demonstrable fact are metaphysical. Only analytic statements are allowed to be known as true through reason alone.