positive

Japanese: positive

...Generally, it refers to an argument that avoids assuming a superempirical entity behind the facts given in experience or thinking using concepts that are not derived from experience, and instead advances an argument based solely on facts. The adjective positive can mean "affirmative, active, positive" in contrast to "negative, negative, negative", but it also has a semantically distinct meaning of "demonstrative, factual" that does not pair with "negative", which arose for the following reasons. This adjective comes from the Latin verb ponere (to set) which is a noun made from the past participle positum (something that has been set), but in this case it means "something that has been set by God". ...

From [Positive]

…Positive, or positivity for short. An image in which the light and dark of a photographic image are reproduced to be the same as the light and dark of the subject. …

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Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…一般に，経験に与えられる事実の背後に超経験的な実体を想定したり，経験に由来しない概念を用いて思考したりすることを避け，事実のみに基づいて論証を推し進めようとする主張をいう。positiveという形容詞には，negative(〈否定的，消極的，陰性の〉)と対をなす〈肯定的，積極的，陽性の〉という意味もあるが，それとは意味論的に区別され，negativeとは対をなさない〈実証的，事実的〉という意味もあり，それは次のような事情で生じたものである。この形容詞はラテン語の動詞ponere(設定する)の過去分詞がそのまま名詞化されたpositum(設定されたもの)に由来するが，このばあいこれは〈神によって設定されたもの〉を意味する。…