All of the options listed are key tenets of Positivism. Empiricism, the belief in science as the highest achievement of human understanding, and the rejection of metaphysics in favor of systematic data collection are all central to the Positivist philosophy.

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Positivism Included

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Positivism included

A) a faith in empiricism.
B) the belief that science was the highest achievement of the human mind.
C) the conviction that metaphysics is a mistaken and futile endeavor.
D) the requirement that data must be systematically gathered in order to find regularities in nature.
E) all of the above

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