NOUN | cognition | Comtism | Auguste Comte's positivistic philosophy that metaphysics and theology should be replaced by a hierarchy of sciences from mathematics at the base to sociology at the top |
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Meaning | Auguste Comte's positivistic philosophy that metaphysics and theology should be replaced by a hierarchy of sciences from mathematics at the base to sociology at the top. | |
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Broader | positivism, logical positivism | The form of empiricism that bases all knowledge on perceptual experience (not on intuition or revelation) |
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