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COMTISM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Comtism mean?
• COMTISM (noun)
The noun COMTISM has 1 sense:
1. 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
Familiarity information: COMTISM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Comtism" is a kind of...):
logical positivism; positivism (the form of empiricism that bases all knowledge on perceptual experience (not on intuition or revelation))
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