Özet:

Basic target for Ottoman bureaucracy and intelligentsia accepting the superiority of the West since the begining of 18th century was to get out of the political, economic and social depression which empire got into. Strong impressions of positivism, outweighing the side of social engineering, were observed on the Ottoman intelligentsia ,in line with this target, affected by a good number of movement of idea developing in West. However, nobody without excepting the Ottoman intelligentsia who contacted with the positivism for the first time and facilitated its access to Turkey was interested in “information theory” and scientific understanding of positivism directly, concentrated on it and the concern to available borders wouldn’t be anything but repetition. It was observed that Ottoman intelligentsia had failed to give point of view or make addition to science theory of pozitivist thought, of which Ottoman intelligentsia was under the influence substantially. Naturally , at this point, Ottoman intelligentsia had position not productor of information but user of that

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