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.
Relativism, roughly put, is the view that truth and falsity, right and wrong, standards of reasoning, and procedures of justification are products of differing conventions and frameworks of assessment and that their authority is confined to the context giving rise to them. (d) The normative principle of a need for tolerance and acceptance towards other points of view (see Â§2.6), which leads to so-called ânormative or prescriptive cultural relativismâ, or the positions that cultural relativism is a moral requirement (see also normative moral relativism in Â§4.5).