Comtism

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Noun
  1. 1
    The positivistic philosophy of Auguste Comte (1798–1857), according to which metaphysics and theology should be replaced by a hierarchy of sciences from mathematics at the base to sociology at the top. uncountable
  2. 2
    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 wordnet

Etymology

From (Auguste) Comte + -ism.

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