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.
Positivism - In science today. 1  The key features of positivism as of the 1950s, as defined in the received view, [61] are... 2  A focus on science as a product, a linguistic or numerical set of statements; 3  A concern with axiomatization, that is, with demonstrating the logical structure and coherence of these statements;