1. Despite his ‘optimism’ the veteran Kashmiris watching the Kashmir imbroglio continuously for the past 58 years are not sanguine of any ‘dramatic positivism’ from New Delhi.

2. As you know, positivism views knowledge (of both the social and the physical world) as a matter of scientific laws and statistical generalisations.

3. He would have also permitted a more healthy focus on his central argument, that modern secular rationalism needs to heed the contribution of faith to enable it to break out of the narrow confines of positivism and empiricism.

4. Advertisement "The teachings repeatedly reject Israel‘s right to exist, present the conflict as a religious battle for Islam, teach Israel‘s founding as imperialism, and actively portray a picture of the Middle East, both verbally and visually, in which Israel does not exist at all," the group wrote in a February report entitled "From nationalist battle to religious conflict: New 12th Grade Palestinian schoolbooks present a world without Israel." According to the report, the book describes the establishment of the State of Israel by saying: "Palestine‘s war [in 1'48] ended with a catastrophe unprecedented in history, when the Zionist gangs stole Palestine and expelled its people from their cities, their villages, their lands and their houses, and established the State of Israel." No latitude for positivism The textbooks were written by the Center for Developing the Palestinian Curricula and introduced by the Palestinian Authority at the end of 2006, according to the report.