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Comtism

com·tism

uncommon

noun

1.

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

Origin

From (Auguste) Comte + -ism.

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