Auguste comte positivism quotes

Positivism is a philosophy developed by Auguste Comte (widely regarded as the first true sociologist) in the middle of the 19th century that stated that the only authentic knowledge is scientific knowledge, and that such knowledge can only come from positive affirmation of theories through strict scientific method.

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• The departmentalization of mind is a means of abolishing mind where it is not exercised ex officio, under contract.

• The error in positivism is that it takes as its standard of truth the contingently given division of labor, that between the science and social praxis as well as that within science itself, and allows no theory that could reveal the division of labor to be itself derivative and mediated and thus strip it of its false authority.
  • Theodor Adorno, “Why still philosophy?” Critical Models (), p.

• Underlying the concept of positivity is the conviction that the positive is intrinsically po