What Is the Positivist Assumption

question 3

Multiple Choice

What is the positivist assumption?

• A) Observations and experience depend on the perspective of the observer
• B) The patterns of interest are a product of our own making
• C) The world consists of regularities that can be measured and explained
• D) You cannot acquire knowledge from studying the world

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