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.
Forms of Positivism include: 1  Social Positivism - of Comte, which showed people as evolving. 2  Critical Positivism - of Ernst Mach, who focused on immediate experience. 3  Logical Positivism - of Von Mises And the Vienna circle, which took a harder line.