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COMTISM
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I. (noun)
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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