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Positivism is a theory of knowledge according to which the only kind of sound knowledge available to human kind is that if science grounded in observation.

Auguste Comte

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Auguste Comte
Age: 59 †
Born: 1798
Born: January 17
Died: 1857
Died: September 5
Mathematician
Philosopher
Sociologist
Isidore Auguste Marie François Xavier Comte
August Comte
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