The doctrine of legal positivism may seem to us to be an irrelevant ... “the man of system” that Adam Smith wrote about in The Theory of Moral Sentiments: “...he seems to imagine that ...

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The rise and fall of logical positivism is the most spectacular story ... into un-observables by their observable implications. For example, gravity is not observable, but it implies that planets ...

A: If there is no debate (a plausible claim), it is because there are no IR theories in the usual positivist/scientific sense of the term, to be debated. In the absence of theory, what passes for ...