A trick to using malapropism is to ensure that the two words (the original and the substitute) sound similar enough for the reader to catch onto the intended switch and find humor in the result.
Positivism is a philosophical theory stating that positive knowledge is based on natural phenomena and their properties and relations. Thus, information derived from sensory experience, interpreted through reason and logic, forms the exclusive source of all authoritative knowledge.
Logical positivism - Principles. 1  Concerning reality, the necessary is a state true in all possible worldsâmere logical validityâwhereas the contingent hinges on the way the particular world is.