Comtism

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Com·tism

 (kŏm′tĭz′əm, kôN′-)
n.
The positivist philosophy of Auguste Comte.
Com′tist n.
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Comtism

positivism, def. 1.
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Noun1.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
logical positivism, positivism - the form of empiricism that bases all knowledge on perceptual experience (not on intuition or revelation)
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His topics include the sociological law of retrospection: the law of revolutionary retrospection as a consequence of economic materialism, Comtism and Marxism: positivism and the monistic comprehension of history, what economic materialism is, a few main principles in the development of art, and the social dialectic in Vico's philosophy.
Marxism and Sociology: A Selection of Writings by Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz
Brains and Numbers: Elitism, Comtism, and Democracy in Mid-Victorian England.
The victorian effort to exclude the amateur 'public intellectual' from economics: the case of Stephen versus Ruskin
Kent, Christopher, Brains and Numbers: Elitism, Comtism, and Democracy in mid-Victorian England, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1978.
Scientific paradigms and urban development: alternative models
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