The Best Combination of the Three Central Elements of the Positivist

Multiple Choice

The best combination of the three central elements of the positivist tradition is ________.

A) realist perspective, trust in causal knowledge, reliance on deductive reasoning
B) focus on theory testing, no trust in causal knowledge, reliance on intuition
C) realist perspective, truth as an objective reality, reliance on intuition
D) trust in causal knowledge, systematic observation, reliance on inductive reasoning