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Comte

(Isidore) Auguste (Marie François) . 1798--1857, French mathematician and philosopher; the founder of positivism

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Also connected to this development was the abiding admiration for Comtian social science under the Progressive banner.

Jane Addams's social gospel synthesis and the Catholic response: competing views of charity and their implications

This Comtian Positivism, which ultimately goes back to the Greeks, reduces water to a substance consisting of two atoms of hydrogen and one atom of oxygen attached to each other at a certain angle and having certain physical and chemical properties.

Why does ice float on the surface of water?

through a deft mixture of Comtian Positivism and German erudition.

Contre Taine et Renan: Charles Peguy and the metaphysics of modern history

According to the positivism, especially to the Comtian one, religion is an archaic thing remained in human history.

State-religion relations during the modernization in Turkey/Modernlesme surecinde Turkiye'de din-siyaset iliskisi

Other portions of the argument demonstrate the inappropriateness of labeling Paris a "positivist" in the Comtian sense, as his awareness of metaphysical absolutes made him spurn philosophical positivism; claim revered intellectual status for Paris in his day (sometimes on such inconclusive evidence as a single letter from a colleague soliciting his participation in pro-Dreyfus activities); examine the professionalization of the discipline through Paris's promotion of a historico-comparative method sharply divergent from the older model of rhetorical eloquence that had reigned in France; and, especially, probe the varieties of meaning ascribed to the term "philology" as practiced in both France and Germany at the time.