Discussion
The distinction between positive and negative facts is mainly concerned with the philosophy of :
Answer: C
The distinction between positive and negative facts is mainly associated with Bertrand Russell.
In his 1918 lectures The Philosophy of Logical Atomism, Russell argued that, besides positive facts, there must be negative facts to make negative propositions such as 'Socrates is not alive' true. He reported that defending this view in a lecture at Harvard 'nearly produced a riot', and the question became a standard topic of his logical atomism.
Wittgenstein's Tractatus mentions positive and negative facts in passing, but treats the world as the totality of existing atomic facts and does not defend negative facts as Russell did. Moore and Ryle are not associated with the distinction.
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