Term: positivism: the form of empiricism that bases all knowledge on perceptual experience (not on intuition or revelation)
Candidate hypernym: empiricism: (philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge derives from experience → 1
Candidate hypernym: raoulia: genus of low-growing mat-forming New Zealand plants; in some classifications includes species placed in genus Haastia → 0
Candidate hypernym: moor: one of the Muslim people of north Africa; of mixed Arab and Berber descent; converted to Islam in the 8th century; conqueror of Spain in the 8th century → 0
Candidate hypernym: creature: a human being; `wight' is an archaic term → 0
Candidate hypernym: drum major: the leader of a marching band or drum corps → 0
Candidate hypernym: major: a commissioned military officer in the United States Army or Air Force or Marines; below lieutenant colonel and above captain → 0
Candidate hypernym: myriameter: a metric unit of length equal to 10,000 meters → 0
Candidate hypernym: arterial plaque: a fatty deposit inside an arterial wall; characteristic of atherosclerosis → 0
Candidate hypernym: cup final: the final match of any cup competition (such as the annual final of the English soccer competition at Wembley) → 0
Candidate hypernym: viewgraph: a transparency for use with an overhead projector → 0
Candidate hypernym: constantinople: the fifth ecumenical council in 553 which held Origen's writings to be heretic → 0