Its most explicit connotation is now sniped at as "scientific  pretentiousness", "mindless quantification", "raw empiricism", and  "antihumanism".
Its most explicit connotation is now sniped at as "scientific  pretentiousness", "mindless quantification", "raw empiricism", and  "antihumanism". This last represents a change, since its  supporters initially included Herbert Spencer and Emile Durkheim.  FTP \-- name this term, once a rallying cry for the remaking of  society along the lines of formal theory by Auguste Comte.
Its most explicit connotation is now sniped at as "scientific  pretentiousness", "mindless quantification", "raw empiricism", and  "antihumanism".
positivism