D. The concept of positivism as well as weakness in the Development of Science
The concept of positivism is research with quantitative methods that are objective, and also hypothetical. Within this concept there are some disadvantages as follows:
1. Analysis of Biological transformed into social analysis is considered as the root of the decline of spiritual values and even human values. This is because the human being is reduced to the physical-biological sense.
2. As a result of distrust of anything that is not verifiable, then this ideology would lead to the multitude of people who will not believe in God, angels, Satan, heaven and hell. Yet such was in the teaching of religion was truth and existence. It is characterized by the time the
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history Emerging Logical Positivism
Logical positivism emerged from the reshuffle of logical positivism positivism which is a school of thought in the philosophy that limits his mind on things that can be proved by observation or the analysis of the definition of the terms. This analysis function reduces the metaphysical and examine the logical structure of scientific knowledge. The purpose of this study is to determine the contents of the concepts and scientific statements which can diversify empirically. [9]
Logical positivism is a philosophy of science that arise in the 20th century in Vienna, the capital of the Habsburg empire and a world center of music in Austria, Central Europe. In the 19th century there have been several people Yeng attention to the development of science and wrote about this phenomenon. However, attempts to learn science was not systematic and do not aim to produce theory. Logical positivism is the first attempt focused on this goal and flourished during M.Schlick (1882-1936) became guru inductive philosophy of science at the University of Vienna. Schlick form a group together, among others, R. Carnap (1891-1970), logician, Ph.Frank, mathematician, V. Kraft, historian, H. Feigl and F. Waismann, two philosophers. This group is called Der Wiener Kreis (Vienna Group). In 1929 R. Carnap, along with H. Hahn, mathematician, and O Neurath (1882-1945), Sociology of experts published a manifesto entitled, Wissenschaftliche Weltauf fassung "Der Wiener Kreis"