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.
Primitivism is a Western art movement that borrows visual forms from non-Western or prehistoric peoples, such as Paul Gauguin 's inclusion of Tahitian motifs in paintings and ceramics.his article is about primitivism in the visual arts. For the social movement, see anarcho-primitivism. For art by self-taught artists, see naive naÃ¯ve. Art for other meanings of primitivism or, primitive See. primitive